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The Chinese spy balloon that was shot down over the Atlantic Ocean in early February was built -- at least partly -- using American off-the-shelf parts, a U.S. official has confirmed to ABC News.

A second U.S. official was also able to confirm that the balloon did not appear to have transmitted any of the data it collected on its journey above North America, as was initially reported by the Wall Street Journal.

The first official could not say whether any of the American gear was sold illicitly to China but said determining whether any of it came from illegal trade was a topic of serious concern among officials since some items -- like chips -- are forbidden to sell to certain markets.

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[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They are still calling it a spy balloon. I am so done with shit.

[–] acabjones@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They also still say nordstream was blown up by anyone but the u.s. and that epstein killed himself

[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I might get downvoted for this but I hate the US

[–] Spagetisprettygood@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why would you get downvoted for this, that's the correct take

[–] ComradeGiraffe@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 year ago

I think they were being sarcastic.

[–] ColonelRevolution@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

“ [...] one of the officials and others in the Biden administration agree that the vessel likely traveled on a course operators didn’t originally intend.

They took advantage of the path they found themselves on,” one of the officials said. Biden said as much in remarks last week that mostly drew attention for his referring to Xi, China’s leader, as a dictator.

“The reason why Xi Jinping got very upset in terms of when I shot that balloon down with two boxcars full of spy equipment in it is he didn’t know it was there”

So they took advantage of the balloon getting off it's course or they did not even know it was in the US?

[–] relay@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

One dark night in the middle of the day,

two little dead boys came out to play.

They stood back to back to face each other.

They drew their swords and shot each other.

[–] 201dberg@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 1 year ago

They announced months ago they weren't spy balloons. It was even confirmed one was from a fucking Ham radio club ffs. I have a friend that's a Hammie and the first thing he said when he saw the reports was "Those are probably for a Ham radio club. I was part of a group that paid for one once. It was like $500 or something." Lol.

[–] vaguevoid@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 year ago

of course they’re only saying this months later

[–] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Well now we know why it didn't transmit any data. I'm surprised it got into the air at all.

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