American Public Not Getting Full Story on Chinese Balloon, Says Former Acting Secretary of Defense

Christopher C. Miller, who served as the acting secretary of defense during President Donald Trump’s last days in office, has said the American public is getting “Orwellian tap dancing” from the current administration about the Chinese high-altitude balloon that drifted across the United States last week and may have surveilled the country.
The high-altitude balloon was spotted last week above an airfield in Montana. The balloon continued to drift across the United States over the next three days before a U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor fighter jet shot it down off the coast of South Carolina. President Joe Biden said he ordered the balloon shot down on Feb. 1, when it was over Montana, but was advised to wait until Saturday, when it was over the ocean, to avoid it falling over a populated area. On Thursday, Biden said the risk posed by the balloon is “not a major breach” for U.S. national security….}