Three Weeks in a Balloon

There's an interesting article from the Associated Press, amid GOP whining about security against Chinese balloons under the Biden Administration. It turns out that fixes put in place by Joe Biden were what allowed the U.S. to discover this balloon -- AND learn that there had been three other balloons during the Trump time in office that they didn't know about. The article begins:

"U.S. officials said Monday that improvements ordered by President Joe Biden to strengthen defenses against Chinese espionage helped to identify last week’s spy balloon — and to determine that similar flights were conducted at multiple points during the Trump administration.

"White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said that after Biden took office, the U.S. 'enhanced our surveillance of our territorial airspace, we enhanced our capacity to be able to detect things that the Trump administration was unable to detect.'”

You can read the full article here, though this is is most notable part of it.