Why the White House isn’t telling Congress about spy balloons – By Jazz Shaw (Hot Air) / Mar 22 2023
During the seemingly endless controversy over the Chinese spy balloon and the other “objects” that were subsequently shut down, the White House and the Pentagon were very short on details when discussing the incidents with the media. It was later revealed that members of Congress had received a bit more information during classified briefings, but the members who publicly commented about those briefings seemed dissatisfied with the explanations that were given. Since that time, almost nothing new has been revealed, either publicly or, according to Politico, in classified settings. Why is that? We could read any number of ulterior motives into this story, but the bottom line seems to be that they still really don’t have a handle on the situation.
Officials inside the Pentagon and intelligence community still haven’t answered questions about what they know about foreign objects floating in U.S. airspace.
Lawmakers have been asking the Biden administration for weeks for details about hundreds of aerial objects floating in U.S. airspace and how many of them may be foreign surveillance tools. They haven’t gotten much of an answer.
One reason: The administration is still trying to determine how bad the problem is.
