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Top defense officials from the Obama administration are again criticizing the Biden administration for its responses to key issues after a suspected Chinese spy balloon floated over the United States for a considerable amount of time.

Leon Panetta, a former defense secretary and CIA director under Obama, said in an interview with Jim Acosta on CNN Newsroom that U.S. officials should have taken steps sooner and been more transparent when addressing the issue with the public. He said Biden "allowed it to simply cross over the country."

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So, the question obviously is Pentagon said that there were risks here. I understand that argument that there were debris risks, Panetta said. At the same time, I think we should have acted earlier if our suspicions were valid that this was in fact on an intelligence mission.

Like other officials before him, Panetta said all of the information relating to the balloon should have been conveyed to the public, which was not alerted to the balloon's presence until outlets issued reports on a mysterious orb in the sky within the first days of February.

It would have prevented some of the criticism that occurred later, and the American people, I think, are entitled to know just exactly what our adversaries are up to, Panetta said. So, I think greater transparency would have helped the White House as well.

This is not the first time Obama officials have voiced their opinions on response times to controversies plaguing the Biden administration. Several top officials have come forward to condemn the discovery of classified documents at Biden's Delaware home and private office.

Biden's classified documents were found in November and December, but the discoveries were not revealed to the public until January.

Former Obama ethics chief Walter Shaub said the discovery showed "an inexcusable neglect" of basic security protocols. He approved of a special counsel being appointed to the Justice Department's investigation of the case "to show an even-handed treatment" to a similar documents investigation involving former President Donald Trump.

Robert Gates, former secretary of defense under Obama, also said there were elements of "carelessness" when it came to the documents.

He also criticized the Biden administration's handling of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, including a decision to send 31 Abrams M1 tanks to Ukraine, saying "a lot of this could be done sooner."

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