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Assistant Sec. of Defense Melissa Dalton says the ability to salvage the Chinese spy balloon was a "key part" of the decision to shoot it down when it did. "If we had taken it down over the state of Alaska...it would have been a very different recovery operation," Dalton said. https://t.co/7k8lI4I9Jm — PolitiTweet.org