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To: Brumar89 who wrote (1390146)	2/6/2023 1:51:36 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572531

Your pea brain can't figure out that the Chinese don't need to know the weather over Montana?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1390146)	4/3/2023 12:53:57 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572531

Now you know, you were caught in another lie. "The Chinese spy balloon that flew across the U.S. was able to gather intelligence from several sensitive American military sites, despite the Biden administration’s efforts to block it from doing so, according to two current senior U.S. officials and one former senior administration official," the NBC report begins. One key question has been whether the balloon's collection technology was capable of transmitting information back to the Chinese government in real time. There was much speculation at the time that the Chinese would have to physically recover the device in order to access whatever data it may have picked up. But US officials now say that Beijing did receive information in real time. "China was able to control the balloon so it could make multiple passes over some of the sites (at times flying figure eight formations) and transmit the information it collected back to Beijing in real time, the three officials said," the report underscores. "The intelligence China collected was mostly from electronic signals, which can be picked up from weapons systems or include communications from base personnel, rather than images, the officials said." Another interesting aspect which US investigators say they've uncovered following much of the balloon debris' retrieval from the ocean in the aftermath of the shootdown is that it had a self-destruct mechanism. Officials say it "could have been activated remotely by China," but also explained that "it’s not clear if that didn’t happen because the mechanism malfunctioned or because China decided not to trigger it."