On Thursday's “CNN News Night” broadcast, CNN chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst John Miller said the White House's comments about the New Jersey drones were an attempt to “keep pressure on the drones at bay.” said.
Mr. Miller said: [relevant remarks begin around 21:45] “[W]hat [White House National Security Communications Adviser John Kirby] He said — and I listened to him carefully and over and over again — he said they were a threat to national security or evidence that they were a threat to public safety. He said there was no such thing and that he could not substantiate it. Now, that means they have no evidence otherwise, because if you pressure them, then what the heck? They're like, we don't know. So I think part of this is politicians being politicians and it's trying to quell the “War of the Worlds”… I think part of this is just to quell this. I think, because I think this is a political decision, remember? When China's slow balloon crossed the United States very slowly at a very high altitude, it quickly became political, and there [were] There are a lot of calls, you need to shoot them down, you need to do this, you need to do that. So I think they're trying to keep the pressure at bay. ”
Miller also said that shooting down a drone would be complicated because it is not illegal to fly a drone and because the drone is large, it could land on objects.
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