#shorts a reporter asked NSA Spokesman John Kirby, “The administration now says that China already does have this intelligence facility in Cuba. What can you tell us broadly about the threat posed by this facility? And, just, bottom line, how concerned should Americans be that the Chinese are listening to us from this facility?

MR. KIRBY: … we can continue to protect our nation’s secrets in this hemisphere and beyond and that — that we can continue to defend the country appropriately.

Reporter: And can you just explain why you didn’t confirm all of this when it was first reported last week? You said it was “inaccurate.” But what was inaccurate seemed to basically be the tense that they, you know, weren’t “going to establish” but “had already established” this facility. Why wait until Saturday to put this out there?

MR. KIRBY: I’m actually really glad you asked that question. I can tell you that — that we were as forthcoming as we should have been at the time the first stories appeared. There is — the sensitive nature of this information is such that we just simply couldn’t go into more detail, even before the first story appeared, to try to better inform that reporting. That’s how sensitive this stuff is. We just couldn’t be more detailed.

And then, after the first stories that appeared, we worked very, very hard — as expeditiously as we could — with the intelligence community to try to get some context downgraded so that we could provide it over the weekend, and we did that. But we were as forthcoming as we should have been given the nature of this information.

other clips of this published longer video is here: https://youtu.be/FQyPAMN1iDc
inaccurate, “going to establish” but “had already established”