Retired four-star Army General Jack Keane slammed President Joe Biden on Saturday for not shooting down the Chinese spy balloon that flew over the U.S. over the last several days when it was thousands of miles away from the continental U.S.
Keane, a former Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army, made the remarks during a segment on Fox News immediately following the U.S. military shooting down the spy balloon over the Atlantic Ocean after it passed South Carolina.
“Remember, this was approaching the United States over water,” Keane said. “It was approaching the Aleutian Islands over water. And we had plenty of opportunity to take it down then. And that’s when it should have happened. We had to be tracking it from mainland China across the Pacific Ocean, and we had plenty of warning to put together an operation that we are conducting now on the east coast that should have been done…