The Biden administration is showing "real weaknesses" with its claims that it does not know more information about the drones being spotted in several locations along the East Coast and other places, former Rep. Pete King said on Newsmax Sunday.
"If they don't know what's happening with all this, then that shows real weaknesses in our air defense system," the New York Republican, appearing on Newsmax's "Wake Up America Weekend" with former Georgia GOP Rep. Jack Kingston, commented. "With all the technology we have, all of the different defense agencies, we have intelligence agencies, spy agencies, for us not to know it shows a real deficiency."
And if the administration does know and is not releasing information, that just adds to the confusion, tension, and people's lack of confidence in the government, said King.
"If they don't know, it shows glaring deficiencies, or if they do know and they're not telling us, [that] is undermining the confidence of the American people."
Kingston, meanwhile, said he doesn't think the drones are dangerous "because we would probably know by now" if they were.
"But I do think they are a danger in the sense that Peter is talking about who in the heck is the federal government to withhold this information from us?" Kingston said, adding that it doesn't seem that members of Congress have been briefed about why the information is being kept from the American public.
"It's a bunch of bull," said Kingston. "This is why, as [Rep.] Rich McCormick says, you can't trust the federal government. Go back to the [claims that] COVID virus did not start in Wuhan or any other of your favorite lies lately."
The former lawmakers also on Sunday discussed the testimony Secretary of State Antony Blinken gave to Congress about the withdrawal from Afghanistan.
During his comments, Blinken said he regretted that more was not done to protect the 13 service members who died during a terrorist strike, and claimed that the government did not anticipate the Afghan security forces would collapse as rapidly as they did.
"That was a shamelessly misleading statement," said King. "The fact is, all of their top military people said they should not pull out at that time, that it was going to invite military disaster, and for them to say Biden had only two choices is not true. No one was asking him to escalate the war, but we could have maintained a base there. We could have maintained security, and those Americans would be alive today."
Kingston added that the United States left billions of dollars worth of military equipment behind, and even since then, billions in American tax dollars have been spent on Afghanistan.
King further discussed the situation in Syria and said that the United States can't allow a power vacuum to take place after the ouster of President Bashar Assad.
"I'm not talking about sending troops in or anything like that, but the power of diplomacy, the power of economy, we have to make sure and do all we can to make sure that al-Qaida does not have a rebirth in Syria," said King.
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Sandy Fitzgerald has more than three decades in journalism and serves as a general assignment writer for Newsmax covering news, media, and politics.
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