Key takeaways:
- The Biden administration is offering to brief former national security adviser John Bolton on Chinese spy balloon incidents that took place during Donald Trump’s presidency.
- The senior administration official said it would be “extremely difficult” to determine what the objects were if the debris cannot be recovered.
- The briefing with Bolton will likely focus on the observations of the objects by US military pilots, as well as the objects’ flight patterns before they were shot down.
The Biden administration is offering to brief former national security adviser John Bolton on Chinese spy balloon incidents that took place during Donald Trump’s presidency. This comes after the military shot down three objects at President Joe Biden’s direction, and the US and Canada may not be able to recover the debris.
A senior administration official said Tuesday morning that it would be “extremely difficult” to determine what the objects were if the debris cannot be recovered. The official also said that the administration is leaning on the US intelligence community to assess the objects.
The Biden administration said in the uproar that followed the shooting down of the objects that they were “unidentified aerial phenomena” and that the military had observed them flying in “unusual aerial patterns.”
John Bolton will be briefed by the Biden administration on Wednesday. The briefing will likely focus on the observations of the objects by US military pilots, as well as the objects’ flight patterns before they were shot down.
The Biden administration has not yet commented on the briefing with Bolton. It is unclear if the administration will be able to provide any further information on the objects that were shot down.
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