WASHINGTON — The U. S. director of national intelligence has been the director of national intelligence. The U. S. Department of Health has 3 months to declassify data on links between the Wuhan China Institute of Virology and the origin of COVID-19, after President Joe Biden signed the law into law on Monday.
The bill is one of the first Biden signed since the start of a divided 118th Congress in January.
“My management will continue to review all classified data related to the origins of COVID-19, adding potential links to the Wuhan Institute of Virology,” Biden wrote. as possible, in accordance with my constitutional authority to oppose the release of data that would be detrimental to national security. “
Congress voted unanimously earlier this month to send Biden’s bill through Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley and co-through Indiana Sen. Mike Braun, Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall, Utah Sen. Mike Lee and Florida Sen. Rick Scott as original co-sponsors. They are all Republicans.
The bill demands that the director of national intelligence “declassify any data related to possible links between the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the origin of coronavirus disease 2019” within 90 days.
Biden noted in his firm that in 2021 he “directed networked intelligence efforts to use all the equipment at their disposal to investigate the origin of COVID-19, and that the work is ongoing. “
In August 2021, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released an unclassified summary of its report, noting that the intelligence network was “divided on the most likely origin of COVID-19,” the intelligence suggesting “natural exposure to an animal” or “a laboratory-related incident. “
Biden pledged Monday to keep looking.
“We want to get to the bottom of the origins of COVID-19 to make sure we can better protect it from pandemics in the long term. “
by Jennifer Shutt, Iowa Capital Dispatch March 20, 2023
WASHINGTON — The U. S. director of national intelligence has been the director of national intelligence. The U. S. Department of Health has 3 months to declassify data on links between the Wuhan China Institute of Virology and the origin of COVID-19, after President Joe Biden signed the law into law on Monday.
The bill is one of the first Biden signed since the start of a divided 118th Congress in January.
“My management will continue to review all classified data related to the origins of COVID-19, adding potential links to the Wuhan Institute of Virology,” Biden wrote. as possible, in accordance with my constitutional authority to oppose the release of data that would be detrimental to national security. “
Congress voted unanimously earlier this month to send Biden’s bill through Missouri Senator Josh Hawley and co-through Indiana Senator Mike Braun, Kansas Senator Roger Marshall, Utah Senator Mike Lee and Florida Senator Rick Scott as original co-sponsors. They are Republicans.
The bill demands that the director of national intelligence “declassify any data related to possible links between the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the origin of coronavirus disease 2019” within 90 days.
Biden noted in his firm that in 2021 he “directed networked intelligence efforts to use all the equipment at their disposal to investigate the origin of COVID-19, and that the work is ongoing. “
In August 2021, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released an unclassified summary of its report, noting that the intelligence network was “divided on the most likely origin of COVID-19,” the intelligence suggesting “natural exposure to an animal” or “a laboratory-related incident. “
Biden pledged Monday to keep looking.
“We want to get to the bottom of the origins of COVID-19 to make sure we can better protect it from pandemics in the long term. “
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