Governments may need to have secrets sometimes, but it’s rather strange when the government is hiding information about enemy nations, not from those nations, but from the American people. Why do that?
The Biden administration and the media recently went after Rep. Mike Turner for warning about new Russian space weapons capabilities.
Was this a case of Rep. Turner letting the cat out of the bag so that the Russians knew that we knew? Not at all. Biden administration officials were secretly telling Russia that they knew all about it.
One reason U.S. officials didn’t widely disseminate intelligence about Russia’s efforts to develop a new space weapon: The administration was trying to start talks to convince Russia to back off the program.
Senior intelligence and administration officials had been reaching out to Russia — along with India and China as possible intermediaries — about the project for weeks before it became public, according to a U.S. official and a person familiar with the outreach…
The two people said that the administration had been worried that if the program became more widely known in Congress or in the public, that might scuttle the nascent efforts to get Russia to abort those tests. The Biden administration had also worried, they said, that if the details of the intelligence were revealed, the source of that information might dry up.
The Biden administration was hiding information about Russia’s weapons capabilities, not from Russia, but from Congress.
Biden’s people claim that they were trying to talk the Russians out of pursuing the program secretly. Did it work?
The officials declined to say whether Russia had responded to the initial reachout, but did say that since the program became public knowledge last week Russia has not shown any willingness to engage on the issue.
That’s a no. And it would not have worked.
This story sounds familiar because it’s very similar to the way China’s spy balloon scandal played out with administration officials hiding the information from the public to avoid embarrassing the PRC.
Is hiding Chinese and Russian projects from the American people really about protecting the notoriously bashful Xi and Putin? Or is it about hiding how weak the administration is from the people it truly fears: Americans?
The Chinese spy balloon program had to be covered up because it made Biden look bad. Russia’s space weapons tests also have to be covered up for the same reason. We could be pursuing technological deterrence, but the Biden administration already ruled that out.
In 2022, I warned that Biden had unilaterally surrendered to Russia and China in the satellite wars.
,Last November, Russia had conducted a DA-ASAT or direct-ascent anti-satellite test which demonstrated its ability to take out satellites. The Russians had used their A-235 anti-ballistic missile system to destroy their own Kosmos 1408 satellite. The message was clear: Moscow had the ability to clear out enemy satellites in the event of any conflict. Including ours.
“I don’t want to get ahead of specific measures that we may pursue,” Biden apparatchik Ned Price fumed, but had vowed that “we won’t tolerate this kind of activity.”
At Vandenberg, Kamala announced that the response would be absolute and total surrender.
Kamala admitted that the Russian and Chinese ASAT tests are “intended to deny the United States our ability to use our space capabilities” and that in response her boss will do nothing.
“We have consistently condemned these tests and called them res- — reckless. But that is not enough. Today we are going further. I am pleased to announce that as of today, the United States commits not to conduct destructive direct-ascent anti-satellite missile testing. Simply put: These tests are dangerous, and we will not conduct them,” she declared.
In the face of Russia and China’s orbital escalation, America will lead by refusing to fight back.
This is what the Biden administration is actually hiding from the American people.