The Department of Defense's Office of Net Assessment will brief the full U.S. Senate some time next week on the Chinese surveillance balloon that was shot down on Saturday.
for waiting several days until the balloon was over the ocean to shoot it down.
The Chinese spy balloon drifts to the ocean after being shot down off the coast in Surfside Beach, South Carolina, U.S. February 4, 2023. "We sent a clear message to China that this is not acceptable. We protected civilians. We gained more intelligence while protecting our own sensitive information," Schumer said."The bottom line here is that shooting down this surveillance balloon over water wasn't just the safest option, but it was the one that maximized our intelligence payload.
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