Pompeo Talks Balloons, Biden, and Trump

Pompeo Talks Balloons, Biden, and Trump

Pompeo Talks Balloons, Biden, and Trump

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo sat down with Niall Stanage of The Hill to discuss his new memoir Never Give an Inch. Naturally the issue of those spy balloons came up in the interview.

So far the US has shot down four of the pesky “aerial phenomena” since February 4, but has confirmed that only one was a Chinese spy balloon. We’re all still waiting to hear what the others were.

Pompeo took the opportunity to express his frustration with the Biden administration for its delay in shooting down the first:

“I don’t know what it collected … I don’t know what signals intelligence it may have had. I don’t know what imagery it may have been able to garner.”

“The whole world saw a slow-moving balloon transiting Montana, Kansas, South Carolina — and the United States of America did nothing.”

Stanage responded by pointing out that “unidentified aerial phenomena” were flying over the US during the Trump administration, too. Pompeo countered in his best lawyerly fashion:

And while National Security Council spokesman John Kirby claimed in a briefing on Monday that Chinese spy balloons “transited the continental United States briefly at least three times during the prior administration,” Stanage concluded this about the Trump administration in his Hill article:

“It now appears that there was in fact no contemporaneous awareness and that the flights — if they happened at all — were discovered only in retrospect.”

 

Pompeo Fires Back on Media Blaming Trump

Trump, Trump, Trump. Just as spring follows winter, the media will follow every chance they can to excoriate the former president.

Take, for example, Matt Novak, tech contributor to Forbes, who in a February 4 article took Donald Trump to task for failing to shoot down previous objects.

Calling Trump “a known liar and continued threat to the safety and security of the United States,” Novak pointed to a Bloomberg News report that Chinese balloons were floating over the US during the Trump administration. And in case you missed Novak’s premise, he wrote another article two days later, this time claiming that Trump officials have admitted that spy balloons were indeed flying during the previous administration. Novak concluded:

“As we now know, Trump experienced a similar situation and didn’t do anything to shoot them down. But that’s not going to stop people like Trump from insisting they’re big and tough. Bigly tough, even.”

We get it, Matt. You despise Trump. And probably Mike Pompeo, too.

Pompeo addressed such criticisms with Stanage in the above video, saying that such talk is a diversion:

“You’re bringing it up too, and this is exactly what the Biden administration wants you talking about: ‘Look over here. See this shiny object. Trump, Trump, Trump.’ Right? This wasn’t remotely the same thing. … As best as I can tell, no one was aware. And this is fundamentally different from what has transpired over the past two weeks.”

 

What If I Were to Tell You That They’ve Been Here All Along?

What if I were to tell you that UAPs have been with us for years? And they’re mainly balloons and drones?

Pompeo balloons UAP

Giphy.com.

Now we’re not talking The Matrix or The X-Files here. But in 2021, several researchers at the website The Drive/The War Zone compiled details describing how bad actors like China have been spying on us for some time. In an article entitled, “Adversary Drones are Spying on the US and the Pentagon Acts Like They’re UFOs,” author Tyler Rogoway wrote:

“We may not know the identities of all the mysterious craft that American military personnel and others have been seeing in the skies as of late, but I have seen more than enough to tell you that it is clear that a very terrestrial adversary is toying with us in our own backyard using relatively simple technologies—drones and balloons—and making off with what could be the biggest intelligence haul of a generation. While that may disappoint some who hope the origins of all these events are far more exotic in nature, the strategic implications of these bold operations, which have been happening for years, undeterred, are absolutely massive.”
Meanwhile the Pentagon has been teasing us with the release of classified documents on (gasp!) UFOs or UAPs or whatever they’re calling them now. And Tucker Carlson has been flogging hair-on-fire feature stories designed to make his viewers wonder if aliens are about to invade. (Plus, he gets more eyeballs, too.)

So it looks like the truth is not really “out there.” It’s been terrestrial all along, courtesy of enemies like China.

 

So What Does Mike Pompeo Really Know?

If the guys at The Drive were able to dig up information on UAPs, then it’s logical to assume that Mike Pompeo knows it too, along with other information of a more classified nature. So he cleverly parsed his responses to Niall Stanage with phrases like, “as far as we know,” and “nobody’s confirmed that that’s true that there were balloons the size of three buses transiting the continental United States” during the Trump administration.

There were no doubt Chinese balloons spying on us during the Trump administration, just as they have been spying worldwide. And the media will blame Trump and Pompeo all day long.

Forget Trump. My concern is this: where do we go from here?

Michael Brendan Dougherty, writing in National Review, wants answers on all the downed UAPs. He wrote:

“Without hard facts, we can only wonder. So, we need President Biden to do what he conspicuously avoided doing in his State of the Union address: We need him to give us a rough idea of what is really going on. We need him to tell us whether these flying objects are a scary new technology or merely a 21st-century version of “chaff” designed to neutralize our technological superiority. Because the longer he stays silent, the more speculation will grow — and the more it will seem like he doesn’t know what’s going on any more than we do.”

Mike Pompeo was absolutely correct when he said that President Biden “made an enormous mistake” that caused “global shame” with the current balloon situation. As for Trump: he’s a nonstarter here. He’s old news, and may not even become president again. But Biden dithered when it came to shooting down the first balloon, making himself look weak and feckless. Now he’s dithering when it comes to providing answers, and the nation is hungry to know what’s really happening in our skies. Meanwhile, the world is watching, too.

 

Featured image: personal collection.

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Kim is a pint-sized patriot who packs some big contradictions. She is a Baby Boomer who never became a hippie, an active Republican who first registered as a Democrat (okay, it was to help a sorority sister's father in his run for sheriff), and a devout Lutheran who practices yoga. Growing up in small-town Indiana, now living in the Kansas City metro, Kim is a conservative Midwestern gal whose heart is also in the Seattle area, where her eldest daughter, son-in-law, and grandson live. Kim is a working speech pathologist who left school system employment behind to subcontract to an agency, and has never looked back. She describes her conservatism as falling in the mold of Russell Kirk's Ten Conservative Principles. Don't know what they are? Google them!

4 Comments
  • Stephen C says:

    Pundits everywhere are pushing its Trump or DeSantis and no one else. But Pompeo has got gravitas too. Maybe he emerges if the former and the latter punch themselves silly.

  • Kevin says:

    Pompeo … “I can’t imagine that happened on our watch.” Famous last words.

    It’s sad to see a West Point graduate support an insurrectionist .. he’ll never go further than announcing he’s a candidate for president.

    Here’s what I want to know. Where did VG (Vicious Gals) get that photo of Pompeo? He looks anorexic inthe photo and then in the video he’s getting closer back to his portly self. Speaking of “balloons” this guy puts on weight rapidly. He got down there for a while and now he’s “ballooned” back up. Wow.

    • Turtler says:

      Ah, if it isn’t the totalitarian Fascist troll under the bridge.

      “ It’s sad to see a West Point graduate support an insurrectionist ..”

      This is hilarious on multiple levels.

      Firstly: Trump wasn’t an insurrectionist. Had he intended to be one, he could have done much, much more damage than actually happened on January 6th. And without being dependent on the corrupt, enabling, and derelict conduct of the DC Government and Pelosi to boot.

      Secondly: I pity absolutely anybody who thinks you have any interest whatsoever in actually going after insurrectionists, because you and your ilk so obviously do not: If you did, why was Epps given such a lavishly sympathetic treatment in spite of admitting to being one of the ringleaders? Why did the DC Police open the Capitol to yet more people after a “breach” was made?

      Thirdly: I wonder (not much, but a bit) what your stance is to Antifascist Action. Your ACTUAL stance. Not whatever mealy mouthed faux-rational, faux-reasonable lies you might mouth in an attempt to fool those you demonize and have boundless contempt for, assuming we will have no memory.

      You know, Antifascist Action. The network of terrorist groups that originate from the original Antifascist Action founded as a stalking horse for Stalin’s loyal KPD, dedicated to fighting “Fascism” including the “Social Fascism” of the SPD (which justified allying with the Literal National Socialists and Herr Hitler to help topple the Social Democratic government in Prussia)? The movement who declares itself as insurrectionist and dedicated to the destruction of capitalism and constitutional “bourgeoise” democracy? That had to be suppressed by the Western Allies immediately after WWII? That rose up to be the poor sister of the Rote Armee Faction in the sixties and seventies? They had a similar resurrection after the Cole War spearheaded by Maoists? That the Federal Republic of Germany’s BfV (perhaps the most accomplished Nazi hunters in domestic security today) flatly declared to be a totalitarian terrorist movement whose “Antifascism” is a fraud? Whose defenders and advocates such as Mark Bray admit that their movement was never limited to fighting “Fascists”? Who have murdered FAR more people than any claims died as a result of January 6th?

      Yeah. How do you feel about supporting those actual, self admitted insurrectionists?

      Actually I think we already know.

      “ he’ll never go further than announcing he’s a candidate for president.”

      Likely, but we will see. And I certainly won’t trust a liar who will bitch basic, non controversial animal biology and behaviorism in an attempt to make some dumb point about elephants being afraid of mice (because apparently while furiously searching through the inter webs for your arguments you couldn’t stop off at the kerjillion trivia or debunking sites about whether elephants are really scared of mice).

      “Here’s what I want to know. Where did VG (Vicious Gals) get that photo of Pompeo? He looks anorexic inthe photo and then in the video he’s getting closer back to his portly self. Speaking of “balloons” this guy puts on weight rapidly. He got down there for a while and now he’s “ballooned” back up. Wow.”

      Considering how you demonize us as Fascists, why do you think we would care to tell you?

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