House Foreign Affairs Chair Has ‘Serious Questions’ Why Intel Community Didn’t Inform Trump Admin on Balloons

Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) has concerns about the intelligence committee not alerting the Trump administration about previous Chinese balloons.
The lawmaker made his comments just before President Joe Biden’s 2023 State of the Union address on Feb. 7, indicating frustration at the way the administration has dealt with a known Chinese surveillance balloon making its way across the nation.
McCaul told The Epoch Times that he could not confirm whether there were three previous Chinese spy balloons over the United States. However, he said that the Trump administration’s national security team appeared to be “totally unaware” of any such event….}

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