Name:   MartiniMan - Subject:   DOD, et al look more incompetent by the day Date:   2/7/2023 2:09:01 PM

Whoever at NORAD or wherever that is responsible for detection of incursions into our airspace are looking more incompetent on almost daily basis.  First we learn that the only reason they even detected this balloon was some guy in Montana saw and reported it.  And contrary to what Mayor Pete said, they did have to close U.S. airspace until the F-22's confirmed it was at 65K feet which is well above commerical airline flights.  Then in response to the firestorm over Brandon letting it float across the country before finally shooting it down they claimed that it happened three times during the Trump admin. 

When everyone and their brother from that admin denied this happened, including Never Trump types, they have changed their story to this one.  Apparently they went back and looked and saw three incursions that were "undetected".  But they can't tell us how they know this cause its super duper top secret......apparently we have to look in Brandon's garage to find out.  Then when they were pressed for more details they are now saying that those three times the balloons only skirted close to or nipped some U.S. territory.  I think basically what we have here was a weak and ill considered attempt to make this no big deal....happens all the time.....Trump didn't do his job either....blah, blah, blah.  And it has blown up in their faces and rightly so.

What these political hack wahoos don't get is no one is blaming them for this balloon.  The ChiComs spy, we spy, everyone spies.  But what is disturbing is that Brandon let it fly across the country sending its info to the ChiCom's while Nero fiddled, diddled and drooled.  I can only imagine the ChiCom back channel message to Brandon that if he values his hide and that of his son's he will let the balloon do its job and then he can shoot it down.