. SenatorWicker: What we know now about China's spy flights is worse than anyone imagined
Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., discusses the latest developments in the Chinese surveillance spy craft on ‘America’s Newsroom.’We are now learning the Chinese surveillance balloon – which traversed the United States uncontested in February – collected signals intelligence floating above American military installations.
I have pressed the Biden administration to provide the facts essential to understanding of this challenge: What was the Pentagon’s initial threat assessment of the first balloon, and when was it conducted? When was the secretary of Defense informed? What about the president? Press reports have been more reliable in answering these questions than the Biden administration's own tight-lipped accounting.What we do know should give us pause. I asked Gen. VanHerck, the NORAD chief, about these questions in a public hearing in March. He testified that he still does not know when the president was made aware of the balloon and that he was not allowed to provide response options to the White House until five days after he first spotted it.
We also need to know what capabilities our air defense professionals lacked while monitoring and scrambling aircraft to the object. For years, NORAD and others have asked Congress for more and modernized early warning technology to prepare for events such as those in February.
Equally worthy of Congressional scrutiny is the troubling fact that a four-star general charged with the defense of North American airspace did not feel he had the authority to make a command decision on this matter in real time. This failure demands a holistic assessment of whether the procedures we have had in place for more than 70 years are adequate to the world today.
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