A Department of Defense spokeswoman downplayed the intelligence gathered by the Chinese via the spy balloon that traversed the United States in early February.
Pentagon officials had said at the time they took steps to mitigate the balloon's ability to gather intelligence from sensitive military bases it flew over, though a new report raised additional questions about how successful these efforts were."We were able to prevent transmission of certain aspects of our sites to be transmitted just because of what we were, the precautionary steps that we were able to take," deputy Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh told reporters on Monday.
"As of right now, we're still doing an assessment of what exactly the intel was that China was able to gather, but we do know that the steps that we took" hampered their ability to collect it, Singh added.
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