NBC News reports: House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner, R-Ohio, released an unusual statement Wednesday warning of a “serious national security threat” without providing additional details, pre-empting what the White House said was a planned briefing for congressional leaders. Four sources with knowledge of the issue said the threat is a Russian military capability. Turner, …
Two sources familiar with the matter told NBC News that the threat cited by Turner, R-Ohio, refers to a space-related capability from the Russian military.
President Joe Biden has been tracking the national security threat and directed White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan to engage congressional leaders, according to two U.S. officials.
White House officials conceded the matter is “serious” but there are ways to “contain” the threat without triggering mass panic, these officials said.
Kind of leaves me curious. Russia has some capability that is space related, and is a threat. Ok. I get the impression this is a newish threat. Or one they recently learned about. And it is “serious”.
By stating there are ways to contain the threat without causing “mass panic” one can logically conclude that there are other ways of containing the threat that could trigger mass panic.
They could have not mentioned mass panic at all but, since they did, I can’t help but think this is potentially a big deal.
We can speculate but probably won’t figure out what’s going on without more info and, since it is classified, that’s extremely unlikely.
Kind of leaves me curious. Russia has some capability that is space related, and is a threat. Ok. I get the impression this is a newish threat. Or one they recently learned about. And it is “serious”.
By stating there are ways to contain the threat without causing “mass panic” one can logically conclude that there are other ways of containing the threat that could trigger mass panic.
They could have not mentioned mass panic at all but, since they did, I can’t help but think this is potentially a big deal.
We can speculate but probably won’t figure out what’s going on without more info and, since it is classified, that’s extremely unlikely.
PS: another article
https://abc7news.com/national-security-threat-house-intelligence-committee-mike-turner-jake-sullivan/14424393/
PPS: sounds like maybe this has been known about and is a medium to long term issue, not anything immediate.