Top Obama Admin Official Knocks Biden Over Suspected Chinese Spy Balloon

President Joe Biden is facing questions from a senior member of the Obama administration over the handling of a suspected Chinese spy balloon.

Former Defense Secretary 🏛️Leon Panetta discussed the incident on CNN on Sunday and noted there will be “lessons from all of this.”

“If we were aware of the balloon, I think we should have taken steps to prevent it from entering our air space, and I’m not sure that we should have allowed it to simply crossover the country, crossover what were obviously sensitive military sites,” he continued. “I don’t see the logic of that.”

He also noted Pentagon officials said they were concerned about shooting down the balloon due to the risk debris could hit people.

However, Panetta argued the military still should have “acted earlier if our suspicions were valid that this was, in fact, on an intelligence mission.”

“I hope in the future we make clear to China, that this kind of incident cannot happen again, and it will not happen again. That in the future, if we see that kind of balloon… if they don’t take action to prevent that balloon from entering our air space, that we will indeed shoot it down much earlier than we did this time around,” he added.

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Host Jim Acosta sought to clarify if he was stating the balloon should have been shot down “perhaps over Montana” and at least “before it crossed over almost the entire continental U.S.”