“Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) will lead a Senate investigation into why it took so long for the Defense Department to detect Chinese spy balloons that floated over the United States this month and in previous years, revealing an embarrassing gap in the nation’s air defenses,” The Hill reports.
Tester Will Lead Senate Probe on Spy Balloons
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