Louisiana’s senior Senator Bill Cassidy says the White House botched the handling of a suspected Chinese spy balloon that flew over the whole USA last week. During his weekly press teleconference, Cassidy says President Biden should have ordered the balloon intercepted far earlier than he did.
“We can’t allow President Biden to create a crisis in our skies…in the same way that he has created – or allowed, if you will -a crisis at our southern border.”
Cassidy feels the president’s failure to react to the first balloon makes us look vulnerable to foreign powers, and places our national security at risk.
“We probably should have intercepted it before we did. And we need to be responding quickly and decisively to any threat to our airspace.”
Cassidy and other senators were briefed by the Defense Department on the balloon last week, as well as four other unidentified objects shot down in the days since. He says, at least U.S. air defenses are much more alert to such incursions going forward.
“We have filled in a gap of that which would protect our airspace by learning how to better pick up these objects.”
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