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Earlier this week, we reported that General Glen VanHerck, the commander of NORAD, admitted that he had been tracking the Chinese communist spy balloon as it approached the coast of Alaska. (This was no run-of-the-mill “weather” balloon.)

But the Biden Administration took no action then because Gen. VanHerck claimed the balloon “was not demonstrating hostile action or hostile intent.” Well, that doesn’t seem to be entirely true.

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin told CBS News that we “buttoned down” our nuclear bases and limited “movement and communications” in order to ensure that “we didn’t expose any capability unnecessarily.”

Really? That’s significant action to take for something that has no “hostile intent.”

And that begs the question: If Austin shut down movement and communications at major military bases over this balloon and we shot it down off…