According to a new report, the claim that the infamous Chinese spy balloon was blocked from transmitting data as it flew across the mainland United States was false.
Astonishingly, the balloon was allowed to connect to a domestic telecommunications service.
The balloon connected to a U.S.-based company, according to the assessment, to send and receive communications from China, primarily related to its navigation.
Officials familiar with the assessment said it found that the connection allowed the balloon to send burst transmissions, or high-bandwidth collections of data over short periods of time.
Gen. Mark Milley, who himself has a long history of defending China, was serving as Biden's Joint Chiefs of Staff at the time.
Milley's claim, which was repeated by other White House officials, came after an attempt to hide the existence of the spy balloon from the public failed.
Defense and intelligence officials have said the U.S. assessment is that the balloon was not able to transmit intelligence back to China while it was over the U.S. Of course, none of this would have been an issue had Biden had the guts to shoot the spy balloon down when it was still over the Pacific Ocean.
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