Congresman ‘Shocked’ at US Decisions on Chinese Spy Balloon After Classified Briefing

The revelations from the House-wide closed-door briefing about the Chinese spy balloon did nothing to reassure Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) about the steps the United States took to handle the incident.
In a conversation after the classified briefing on Feb. 9 morning, Higgins said he was “surprised” and “shocked at what I was hearing of the decisions that were made” and the argument top intelligence and military officials made supporting these measures.
“I can tell you that having heard their reasoning, I 100 percent disagree,” he told The Epoch Times.
Initially detected on Jan. 28, the balloon entered the United States twice with a brief incursion over Canada’s airfield, traveling through multiple sensitive military sites before an F-22 fighter jet shot it down from the sky off the Carolina coast….}