ACBS News reportsaid that U.S. intelligence services were aware of the Chinese spy balloon for a week before it entered U.S. airspace.
The report will reignite criticism that President Joe Biden didn’t do enough to counteract the surveillance activities from a hostile foreign country.
Intelligence services reportedly tracked the spy balloon as it drifted towards Guam and Hawaii from southern China before it made a sharp turn toward Alaska.
The report alsosaidthat three other objects thought to be related to the Chinese spy balloon were most likely harmless research balloons that did not participate in the surveillance.
The three other objects were shot down in northern Alaska, the Yukon territory, and over Lake Huron. CBS News said that Biden ordered that they be shot down because it could not be determined if they were surveillance craft.
The first object, confirmed to be a spy balloon, was…