Category: Pentagon

‘A Lot of Unanswered Questions’: Senators React After Classified Briefing on Chinese Spy Balloon

Republicans are reacting with disapproval following a hearing which examined the Biden DoD’s response to a Chinese spy balloon that traversed the continental United States last week. Pentagon officials testified before a Senate Appropriations Defense hearing on Feb. 9, where they defended the department’s decision not to engage with China’s high-altitude surveillance balloon for an…


PREMIERING 4 PM ET: China’s Spy Balloon Entered US Airspace On Jan. 28, Nothing Was Done Until Newspaper Published Photos | Truth Over News

The saga of the Chinese Spy Balloon that floated unhindered for days over the nation’s airspace is a huge story in its own right. But it also encapsulates a larger problem—the successful efforts by China to spy on the U.S.—and how the Biden administration has allowed these efforts by China to continue with little or…


Pentagon Under Fire for Response to Chinese Spy Balloon

U.S. Defense officials are under fire for their decision to allow a Chinese spy balloon to traverse the continental United States. Lawmakers told members of the defense community that they would be held accountable should Congress find fault with the Department of Defense’s (DOD) decision-making during a Senate Appropriations Defense hearing on the issue of…


DOD Under Fire for Response to Chinese Spy Balloon

U.S. Defense officials are under fire for their decision to allow a Chinese spy balloon to traverse the continental United States. Lawmakers told members of the defense community that they would be held accountable should Congress find fault with the Department of Defense’s (DOD) decision-making during a Senate Appropriations Defense hearing on the issue of…


Navy Admiral Raises Concerns About Pentagon’s Failure to Detect Chinese Spy Balloons

A Navy admiral and former head of U.S. Pacific Command has raised concerns about the lack of capability of the Defense Department (DOD) of detecting at least four previous Chinese spy balloons that allegedly traveled over the United States in recent years. The comment by retired Adm. Harry Harris Jr. was made at a Feb 7…


LIVE NOW: House Armed Services Subcommittee Holds Hearing on Pentagon’s War Preparedness

U.S. House Armed Services Committee Cyber, Information Technologies, and Innovation Subcommittee holds a hearing at 8:30 a.m. ET on Feb. 9 on “The Future of War: Is the Pentagon Prepared to Deter and Defeat America’s Adversaries?” Author Chris Brose, Senior Director for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies Center on Cyber Technology and Innovation Rear…


House Armed Services Subcommittee Holds Hearing on Pentagon’s War Preparedness

U.S. House Armed Services Committee Cyber, Information Technologies, and Innovation Subcommittee holds a hearing at 8:30 a.m. ET on Feb. 9 on “The Future of War: Is the Pentagon Prepared to Deter and Defeat America’s Adversaries?” Author Chris Brose, Senior Director for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies Center on Cyber Technology and Innovation Rear…


Pentagon Says No to China’s Demands to Return Downed Spy Balloon Debris

Washington has said it won’t give back to Beijing the debris of China’s downed spy balloon while a senior Chinese official has called for the remnants of the vessel to be returned. National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said Monday that there are no plans to return to Beijing the debris of the downed balloon,…


Biden Admin Announces New FBI Headquarters Twice the Size of the Pentagon | Facts Matter

The federal government is already in the process of building a new headquarters for the FBI, and this new complex will be at least twice the size of the Pentagon. There are two reasons for changing the location of the FBI building, one of which is that the FBI has grown too big, even for…


‘We’ll Learn a Lot’ From Downed Chinese Spy Craft: Top Intelligence Democrat

The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee expects U.S. officials to “learn a lot” from the Chinese spy craft that was shot down over the continental United States. On Feb. 4, a Chinese balloon for espionage was shot down over the Atlantic Ocean, a few miles from the coast of the Carolinas, after it…