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Remember the WaPo report on Wuhan lab?
Posted on: May 27, 2021 at 11:19:59 CT
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/powerup/2020/05/04/powerup-president-trump-and-secretary-of-state-mike-pompeo-continue-to-push-unsubstantiated-wuhan-lab-theory-on-novel-coronavirus-origins/5eaf5070602ff15fb00238b8/
".... Trump repeated the claim without evidence, saying he thought China “made a horrible mistake and didn't want to admit” the virus came from the Wuhan lab.....
The facts: Scientists and some government officials have for months floated varying ideas on the outbreak's origin. But as the Trump administration and the president's reelection campaign have moved to shift blame to China from the White House's own response to the virus, the unproven theory the disease was hatched in an accident at a Wuhan lab has gained traction. Never-mind that a growing body of scientific evidence shows the virus was the product of a “natural process.”
The president's own intelligence apparatus has yet to find any evidence supporting the lab theory:
DNI: The Office of the Director of National Intelligence released an unusual public statement last week about the ongoing U.S. investigation into the outbreak's origins: “The entire Intelligence Community has been consistently providing critical support to U.S. policymakers and those responding to the covid-19 virus, which originated in China. The Intelligence Community also concurs with the wide scientific consensus that the covid-19 virus was not man-made or genetically modified.”
They added: “The IC will continue to rigorously examine emerging information and intelligence to determine whether the outbreak began through contact with infected animals or if it was the result of an accident at a laboratory in Wuhan.”
“The C.I.A. has yet to unearth any data beyond circumstantial evidence to bolster the lab theory, according to current and former government officials, and the agency has told policymakers it lacks enough information to either affirm or refute it,” reported the New York Times's Mark Mazzetti, Julian Barnes, Edward Wong, and Adam Goldman.....
".... Trump repeated the claim without evidence, saying he thought China “made a horrible mistake and didn't want to admit” the virus came from the Wuhan lab.....
The facts: Scientists and some government officials have for months floated varying ideas on the outbreak's origin. But as the Trump administration and the president's reelection campaign have moved to shift blame to China from the White House's own response to the virus, the unproven theory the disease was hatched in an accident at a Wuhan lab has gained traction. Never-mind that a growing body of scientific evidence shows the virus was the product of a “natural process.”
The president's own intelligence apparatus has yet to find any evidence supporting the lab theory:
DNI: The Office of the Director of National Intelligence released an unusual public statement last week about the ongoing U.S. investigation into the outbreak's origins: “The entire Intelligence Community has been consistently providing critical support to U.S. policymakers and those responding to the covid-19 virus, which originated in China. The Intelligence Community also concurs with the wide scientific consensus that the covid-19 virus was not man-made or genetically modified.”
They added: “The IC will continue to rigorously examine emerging information and intelligence to determine whether the outbreak began through contact with infected animals or if it was the result of an accident at a laboratory in Wuhan.”
“The C.I.A. has yet to unearth any data beyond circumstantial evidence to bolster the lab theory, according to current and former government officials, and the agency has told policymakers it lacks enough information to either affirm or refute it,” reported the New York Times's Mark Mazzetti, Julian Barnes, Edward Wong, and Adam Goldman.....
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Remember the WaPo report on Wuhan lab? - Spanky KU - 5/27 11:19:59