Who Is Michael McCaul?

My VIP for this week is Representative Michael McCaul (R-Texas). He is the House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman, and he has openly claimed that the Biden administration is not telling the truth about the Chinese spy balloon that traveled from Alaska down to Montana and across the Continental United States to South Carolina. The Biden administration claims that the balloon was not dangerous and that the U.S. gained more intelligence from watching it that it was able to scoop up as it hovered over sensitive military sites in the various states. 

McCaul claimed that the balloon “did a lot of damage” on CBS News’ “Face the Nation.” He explained that China was able to “gather intelligence on areas sensitive to national security” because Biden did not order it to be preemptively downed.  

Host Margaret Brennan asked McCaul about the “new restrictions enacted on six Chinese companies whose technology was used in the spy balloon’s construction.” After stating that the balloon did great damage, McCaul explained what he plans to do about it.

It will be one of my number-one priorities, as the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in this Congress, to stop the export of technology to China that then goes into their most advanced weapons systems, in this case a sophisticated spy balloon that went across three nuclear sites….

I think it’s important to say, in plain view of the American people, you know, in Montana – the triad site, air, land, and sea nuclear weapons – in Omaha, the spy balloon went over our Strategic Command, which is our most sensitive nuclear site; it was so sensitive that President Bush was taken there after 9/11. And then, finally, Missouri, the B-2 Bomber – that’s where they are placed.

The Biden administration claimed that it jammed the capability of the spy balloon to gather intelligence, but McCaul is not convinced that we are being told the truth.

My assessment – and I can’t get into the detail of the intelligence document – is that if it was still transmitting going over these three very sensitive nuclear sites, I think if you look at the flight pattern of the balloon, it tells a story as to what the Chinese were up to as they controlled this aircraft throughout the United States….

Going over those sites, in my judgment, would cause great damage. Remember, a balloon could see a lot more on the ground than a satellite.

McCaul believes that China was seeking information about the military capabilities of the United States in case they decide to be more forceful with Taiwan. My question is, how did China know where our most sensitive military places are located? The Biden administration’s willingness to allow the Chinese spy balloon to traverse the United States is even more questionable because there are so many questions about whether Biden is a comprised president. Has he sold us out to China in return for the millions of dollars that China paid to Hunter Biden?