No, I don't. The Chinese setup is that there is a Polit bureau member who is the overseer -- the senior overseer on behalf of the Polit bureau for the entirety of the Intelligence and Security apparatus of China.
Clapper expresses disbelief that President Xi would not be informed about the spy balloon incident.
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