The CIA has released a new assessment favoring the lab leak theory as the most likely explanation for the COVID-19 pandemic's start. While acknowledging 'low confidence' in its conclusion, the agency believes the totality of evidence makes a lab origin more probable than a natural origin.
New CIA Director John Ratcliffe went straight to work on behalf of the American people by releasing a new assessment on the origins of Covid-19.went straight to work on behalf of the American people by releasing a new position on the origins of Covid-19.
The finding is not the result of any new intelligence, and the report was completed at the behest of the Biden administration and former CIA Director William Burns. It was declassified and released Saturday on the orders of President Trump’s pick to lead the agency, John Ratcliffe, who was sworn in Thursday as director.
While most early reports indicated a market close to Wuhan was the source of the original COVID-19 infections, there wasSen. Tom Cotton suggested that Chinese officials misled the public on the origins of the novel coronavirus that has killed at least 362 people and infected more than 17,400 others, saying it may have originated in a “superlaboratory.” ….
If you read Legal Insurrection, you would have known about this Chinese university study. Occam’s Razor”: The simplest answer is usually the most correct. Which is easier to believe: Chinese researchers, using unsafe laboratory practices in a facility that had waste maintenance problems was the epicenter, or someone failed to cook the pangolin long enough in a Wuhan kitchen?
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