{"id":733,"date":"2023-04-03T18:36:44","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T22:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imjustsayin.live\/?p=733"},"modified":"2023-04-03T18:55:34","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T22:55:34","slug":"chinese-spy-balloon-was-able-to-transmit-information-back-to-beijing-in-real-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imjustsayin.live\/index.php\/2023\/04\/03\/chinese-spy-balloon-was-able-to-transmit-information-back-to-beijing-in-real-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese spy balloon was able to transmit information back to Beijing in real time"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<div class=Section1>\n<p class=MsoNormalCxSpFirst style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;  line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\",\"serif\"'>Chinese  spy balloon was able to transmit information back to Beijing<\/span><\/b><b><span  style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\",\"serif\"'> <\/span><\/b><span  style='font-size:6.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\",\"serif\";color:#6E6E6E'>By&nbsp;<a  href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/profiles\/natasha-bertrand-profile\"><span  style='color:#6E6E6E'>Natasha Bertrand<\/span><\/a>, CNN<\/span><b><span  style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\",\"serif\"'> <\/span><\/b><span  style='font-size:6.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\",\"serif\";color:#6E6E6E'>Updated  9:38 AM EDT, Mon April 3, 2023<\/span><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;  font-family:\"Times New Roman\",\"serif\"'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:5.0pt;line-height:normal'><span  style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\",\"serif\"'><img decoding=\"async\" border=0  width=577 height=385 id=\"Picture_x0020_1\"  src=\"https:\/\/imjustsayin.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image001-1.jpg\"  alt=\"US sailors recover a suspected Chinese high-altitude surveillance balloon that was downed by the United States over US territorial waters off the coast of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, on February 5, 2023.\"><\/span><span  style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\",\"serif\"'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:  11.25pt'><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\",\"serif\";  color:#0C0C0C'>US sailors recover a suspected Chinese high-altitude  surveillance balloon that was downed by the United States over US territorial  waters off the coast of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, on February 5, 2023.<\/span><span  style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\",\"serif\";color:#0C0C0C'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;  font-family:\"Times New Roman\",\"serif\"'>U.S. Fleet Forces\/U.S. Navy\/Reuters<\/span><\/b><b><span  style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\",\"serif\"'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:  normal'><b><span style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\",\"serif\"'>WashingtonCNN&nbsp;&#8212;&nbsp;<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><span style='font-family:\"Helvetica\",\"sans-serif\";  letter-spacing:.25pt'>&#8220;The&nbsp;<\/span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;  font-family:\"Helvetica\",\"sans-serif\"'>Chinese spy balloon<\/span><span  style='font-family:\"Helvetica\",\"sans-serif\";letter-spacing:.25pt'>&nbsp;that  transited the US earlier this year was able to capture imagery and collect some  signals intelligence from US military sites, a source familiar with the matter  tells CNN.&#8221;<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><span style='font-family:\"Helvetica\",\"sans-serif\";  letter-spacing:.25pt'>&#8220;The balloon was able to transmit information back  to Beijing in real time, the source said, and the US government still does not  know for sure whether the Chinese government could wipe the balloon&#8217;s  data as it received it. That raises questions about whether there is  intelligence the balloon was able to gather that the US still doesn&#8217;t  know about.&#8221;<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><span style='font-family:\"Helvetica\",\"sans-serif\";  letter-spacing:.25pt'>&#8220;Still, the intelligence community has not been  overly concerned about the information the balloon was able to gather, <span  style='color:#C00000'>the person said, because it is not much more  sophisticated than what Chinese satellites are able to glean as they orbit over  similar locations.&#8221;<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;  font-family:\"Bell MT\",\"serif\";letter-spacing:.25pt'>This says to me [I&#8217;m  Just Sayin&#8217; &#8230;] that the balloon was more sophisticated than  orbiting Chinese Satellites. Not sure who &#8216;the person&#8217; is who said  it but that&#8217;s quite a statement.<\/span><\/b><b><span style='font-size:  12.0pt;font-family:\"Bell MT\",\"serif\";letter-spacing:.25pt'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:\"Bell MT\",\"serif\"'>I&#8217;m Just  Sayin&#8217; &#8230;<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal>You can read the entire article here <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/04\/03\/politics\/chinese-spy-balloon\/index.html\">https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/04\/03\/politics\/chinese-spy-balloon\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese spy balloon was able to transmit information back to Beijing By&nbsp;Natasha Bertrand, CNN Updated 9:38 AM EDT, Mon April 3, 2023 US sailors recover a suspected Chinese high-altitude surveillance balloon that was downed by the United States over US territorial waters off the coast of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, on February 5, 2023. U.S. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/imjustsayin.live\/index.php\/2023\/04\/03\/chinese-spy-balloon-was-able-to-transmit-information-back-to-beijing-in-real-time\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chinese spy balloon was able to transmit information back to Beijing in real time&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/imjustsayin.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image001-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imjustsayin.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imjustsayin.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imjustsayin.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imjustsayin.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imjustsayin.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imjustsayin.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imjustsayin.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imjustsayin.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imjustsayin.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imjustsayin.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}