Balloon? a story they are sticking to. do you buy it? well, thanks, michael. no, i don t buy it at all. when you look at this balloon before it was shot down by the f-22, it was a fairly sophisticated platform, had a large set of solar arrays that were powering an instrumentation package underneath the balloon itself. that doesn t sound very much like a weather balloon to me. and the very fact that this balloon was floated over sensitive u.s. military sites, it would have been an ideal platform to gather signals, intelligence, rather than necessarily taking photos. so i think the chinese claim that this is somehow an innocent weather balloon gone off course is frankly nonsense. tell us more about what you military types call sigant? a satellite is in orbit, it s moving in orbital velocities,
ties to the terrorist group in afghanistan. top officials have indicated this week that there is evidence that pakistan s intelligence agency is supporting what is called the haqqani network and now going one step further saying they believe that the support is coming from the agencies highest ranks. our pentagon correspondent barbara starr is standing by with the latest. barbara, a lot at stake right now, and what are the officials saying? well, wolf, pakistan is supposed to be one of the u.s. s closest allies in the war of terror and the united states gives them billions of dollars in aid, but for the third day in washington, tensions are ratcheting up. today, a top u.s. military official said indeed, it is the top leadership right at the top of the isi, the pakistani intelligence service that is supporting the haqqani network with money, training and advice and supporting the attacks within pakistan and some of those troops killing u.s. troops in afghanistan and of cour