Washington, DC — Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley is renewing his call for the Biden administration to disclose all it knows about the high-altitude Chinese balloon that flew across the US in February.
NBC is reporting today (Monday) that the spy balloon, which China claimed was a weather balloon blown off course, was able to gather intelligence from several US military sites and transmit it back to Beijing in real time.
The report says the balloon managed to make multiple passes over some sites, including flying in a figure-eight, before a US fighter jet shot it down off the South Carolina coast. Grassley says there are already clear laws dictating how our airspace is not to be violated.
A total of four balloons were shot down during February, including two near Alaska and a third over Lake Huron. Grassley says America needs to show China and the world our strength and that we’ll defend our borders, and our allies.
At the urging of Congress, Grassley says the US is also pushing to pull manufacturing out of China and relocate it to the US.
