It is absolutely relevant that the previous admin allowed the (ridiculous IMHO) panic over this to continue and pretended that they had no clue what was happening and then at the first press briefing under the new admin they just put the whole thing to rest.
To be fair there was a classified briefing to members of congress and the whole thing practically died down overnight.
Could have just said, "it's us" publicly, and that's it. It's not like someone would shoot it down to see what it is.
Why answer the question, "It's us," will bring when you can have people freak out and let the next admin handle it?
Handle what ? Apparently there's nothing to handle
Benefit of burying it in Trump's first 10 days of epic change.
I think it only benefits Trump
If Biden's admin gives literally the same word-for-word answer, it begets tons of follow up questions and headlines. They didn't (and apparently still don't) want to answer those questions. So they passed the buck. Answering the way they did doesn't make the Trump admin look good. It's just a relative non-story compared to everything else they've got going on.
We get it was approved by the faa I think it all is in the words AND FOR OTHER REASONS
Are they back?
No just a lot of USAF activity tonight, I counted 3 KC-46's and a C-17
Quotes in a signature is annoying, as it comes across as an independent post.
That’s fascinating. How can you tell?