redstate.com By Jennifer Van Laar |
In appearances on two Sunday talk shows, House Foreign Affairs Committee chair Rep. Mike McCaul (R-TX) said that China sending a high-altitude spy balloon across the continental United States “was an act of espionage in plain sight” and revealed that the balloon had a greater capability than satellites to gather and collect imagery, and left open the possibility that these signals and images were still transmitted to Beijing even though US intelligence officials claim that they “mitigated” the damage.
On “Sunday Morning Futures With Maria Bartiromo,” McCaul said:
“These spy balloons have great capability to gather and collect intelligence, I would argue Moreso than even satellites in the sense that they’re flying at, say, 40 to 60 thousand feet above the earth. The imagery that they can capture and other intelligence data that I can’t be specific about can be captured and then transmitted back to the mothership in Beijing.
“This was an act of espionage in plain sight, plain view of the American people.”
McCaul also appeared on “Face the Nation.”…
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