Now, he has been in a new report by the Wall Street Journal that some of the officials who believed in the probability of a Covid-19 laboratory leak theory have been blocked through the Biden management to share their perspectives with the president and Another leading intelligence network.
Early in Joe Biden’s presidency, he tasked the U.S. intelligence community with preparing a report on their most updated analysis on the origins of the coronavirus. The report came amid China’s blocking of U.S. officials’ access to the Wuhan Institute, preventing them from adequately studying the virus’ origins.
The “most likely” is that Covid has leaked from the Wuhan laboratory, social distancing “is not in science. “
The workers’ safety agency maintains custody outside the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan as members of the World Health Organization (WHO) team investigating the origins of the Coronavirus made a stop at the Wuhan Institute in the Central Province of Hubei on February 3. , 2021. (Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images)
At the time, the FBI was the only government agency concluding that a lab leak origin theory was most likely.
Still, according to FBI senior scientist Jason Bannan, who was tasked with helping lead the company’s investigation into the origins of Covid-19, neither he nor any of his opposing numbers at the company were asked to give their assessment to an August 2021 briefing with the President, Led through the White House National Intelligence Council, which sought a percentage of the Intel community’s stance on the herbal and synthetic origins of Covid-19.
“Being the only agency that assessed that a laboratory origin was more likely, and the agency that expressed the highest level of confidence in its analysis of the source of the pandemic, we anticipated the FBI would be asked to attend the briefing,” Bannan told the Wall Street Journal. “I find it surprising that the White House didn’t ask.”
Additionally, according to sources familiar with the matter, three scientists at the National Center for Medical Intelligence, a sub-agency within the Department of Defense’s Defense Intelligence Agency, were also blocked from sharing their research that concluded the coronavirus originated from a lab leak. Ultimately, a Defense Intelligence Agency Inspector General report was commissioned to find out whether the three scientists’ assessment was suppressed.
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An ODNI spokesman declined to comment on the report, which has still been published.
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The three scientists at the National Center for Medical Intelligence, John Hardham, Robert Cutlip and Jean-Paul Chretien, argued that evidence they found had shown that Chinese scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology were conducting dangerous “gain-of-function” research. In turn, the trio informed their counterparts, including someone at the FBI on Bannan’s team, about their findings. However, in July 2021, the three scientists were told by their superiors to halt any continued sharing of their work with people at the FBI, which they were told was “off the reservation,” the Wall Street Journal reported.
Virologist Shi Zheng-Li, left, works with his colleague at the P4 Laboratory of the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in Wuhan in Hubei province from central China, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017 (China/Barcroft Studios/Future Post)
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In response to the assertions made in the Wall Street Journal’s report, a spokesperson for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said that the intelligence community-wide assessment of the origins of COVID-19 included input “from across the community on the two main hypotheses of the origins of the pandemic in line with all of the Intelligence Community’s analytic standards, including objectivity.”
The spokesperson added that efforts were made to ensure that both of these viewpoints were included in the intelligence assessment, in line with the “standard process” for typical coordination of a National Intelligence Council assessment.
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