Colorado U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet on Sunday said the American people deserve timely answers about the objects shot down over Lake Huron, Alaska, and Canada.
“We need to understand the nature of the threat to our national security,” Bennet said in a tweet. “As a member of the Intelligence Committee, I expect to be briefed on these incidents early this week.”
See? He said it all right here.
The American people deserve timely answers about the objects shot down over Lake Huron, Alaska & Canada. We need to understand the nature of the threat to our national security.
As a member of the Intelligence Committee, I expect to be briefed on these incidents early this week. https://t.co/ggvylL4j1v
— Michael Bennet (@SenatorBennet) February 13, 2023
If only Bennet meant it.
Senators were briefed by numerous military officials yesterday, and yet despite Bennet’s insistence that Americans deserve timely answers, we’re still waiting on him to give us any.
Maybe Bennet wasn’t included in the briefing, but the numerous senators who were told The Hill yesterday they were assured those benign balloons.
U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas explained:
“On the one hand, the administration is saying we don’t yet know what these last three objects are and we don’t want to characterize them until we recover them, but on the other hand it wasn’t a threat. Both of those things can’t be true.”
Meanwhile, Senate Democrat Leader Chuck Schumer is finally changing his tune on absurd claims that Trump was just giving balloons a pass over the country when he was in office.
Senate Democrats also want to know why at least three balloons that entered the nation’s airspace during the Trump administration weren’t detected until years later.
“We want to find out why it took until now” to detect the balloons, Schumer told reporters. “Now, they’re upgrading their radars, they’re upgrading everything, but we still should know that answer.”
That’s an update we would like to have had from Bennet.
Meanwhile, Colorado Democrat U.S. Rep. Jason Crow says this is all they know, so shut up about it.
Bloomberg reports China is threatening to retaliate against the U.S., claiming we violated their sovereignty.
At a briefing Wednesday, Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin repeated Beijing’s view that the Chinese balloon downed by a US jet off the South Carolina coast this month had inadvertently floated over the country after being blown off course. He criticized the Biden administration’s decision to take it out and said the move would have consequences.
“China is strongly opposed to this and will take countermeasures against relevant US entities that have undermined our sovereignty and security to firmly safeguard our sovereignty and legitimate rights and interests,” Wang told reporters at the daily briefing.
Biden still hasn’t made any public remarks or offered an explanation to the American people, and neither has Bennet.