GOP Senators Accuse Pentagon Official of Leaking Classified Information on Chinese Spy Balloons

Dr. Colin Kahl, the U.S. undersecretary of defense for policy, is seen in a file photograph. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Pentagon official Colin Kahl leaked classified information about Chinese spy balloons to deflect blame on the Biden administration’s mishandling of a similar spy balloon in U.S. airspace last month, according to two Republican senators.

Kahl, whom President Joe Biden appointed as his undersecretary of defense for policy, provided classified information to reporters, revealing that Chinese Communist Party (CCP) spy balloons may have infiltrated the United States during the Trump administration, Sens. Roger Wicker (R., Miss.) and Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) wrote in a March 10 letter.