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House Homeland Security Republicans Want Balloon Briefing

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, February 14th, 2023

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House Homeland Security Republicans Want Balloon Briefing

Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.), chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee. Twitter photo.

The chairman and five other Republicans of the House Homeland Security Committee on Tuesday requested a classified briefing by North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and the Department of Homeland Security on the recent violation of U.S. airspace by a high-altitude Chinese surveillance balloon that was eventually shot down in the Atlantic Ocean near the coast of South Carolina. The congressmen said the balloon “posed a serious threat to the American homeland” as an intelligence platform and are concerned that…

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