“Our very fine military assets here were deployed to go check it out and track it,” Sen. Dan Sullivan said.
reporting the balloon then flew across Alaska and Canada before entering the Lower 48 on Tuesday over Idaho. The president was in support of shooting it down sooner, however, military officials were worried about the risk posed to individuals if the balloon was shot over land.“Taking this Chinese surveillance balloon down was the right call and I commend all who played a role in the successful execution of that mission,” Murkowski said in an emailed statement.
Sullivan said he believed the balloon should have been shot down “right when it was coming into Alaska airspace.” “We did finally shoot it down but after it traversed the entire United States of America,” Sullivan said. “Now, I also know that at the same time, we were doing intel collections on it. So perhaps we got more intel out of this against the Chinese than vice versa. These are going to be some of the questions that I’m asking. But I think overall, you know, we need to just remember we are in a major long-term competition with the Chinese Communist Party.
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