John Kirby drone statement ‘very misleading at best’: New Jersey rep

[Gefn]

Rep. Chris Smith (R- N.J.) slammed White House national security spokesperson John Kirby’s statement about the recent mysterious drone sightings on the East Coast.

“Well, I think it’s very misleading at best,” Smith said in an interview on NewsNation’s “The Hill” on Monday evening. “If [Kirby] knows something, he should say.”

Smith, who represents New Jersey’s 4th Congressional District, was reacting to Kirby’s comments on Fox News when he said there’s no indication that the uptick in drone sightings in recent days pose a significant risk to public safety.

“We’ve done the detection, then the analysis. We’ve corroborated the sightings,” Kirby said. “And in every case that we have examined to date, we have seen nothing, nothing that indicates a public safety risk.”


https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5043815-chris-smith-john-kirby-mysterious-drone-sightings/

[berdie]

One of the many things that is most unsettling about this, is that the local officials are as alarmed and in the dark about this as the general population.

[mountaineer]

One of the many things that is most unsettling about this, is that the local officials are as alarmed and in the dark about this as the general population.

And political party is not the determining factor, which is a good thing. Local officials of both parties are getting angry.

If this administration told the truth about anything, it would be a welcome change.