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Also an excuse to be used as a point to carry out our own intelligence operation against the chinese. in other words, taking the time which we decided -- this has to be presented to the congress -- we concluded it posed no physical threat to the united states and its people and that we would use that opportunity to analyze what they were dong is also to penetrate, if we could, to hack into those systems to determine what they were trying to accomplish with a fairly unsophisticated balloon type of vehicle. so i think we were using it as an opportunity to determine what the chinese were up to. w...