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\"\"Double whammy: Two new reports point to Biden Pentagon cover-up on COVID-19 origins search<\/h1>\n

More than half a decade after the pandemic began, key information on COVID-19’s origins continues to dribble out of the U.S. government \u2014 almost exclusively pointing to a Wuhan lab leak.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Two new bombshell reports this week pointed to a cover-up by the Biden-era Pentagon related to the search for COVID-19\u2019s origins. New information is spilling out years after the fact and pointing to Wuhan and its coronavirus lab<\/a> as the origin of the pandemic all along.<\/p>\n

First, a newly-released Department of Defense (DoD) report, made public\u00a0only in recent days<\/a> by the Trump-led Pentagon, showed that the Defense Department never formally investigated the possibility that U.S. service members may have been infected with COVID-19 during the World Military Games in Wuhan in the fall of 2019.<\/p>\n

In addition, a newly-released analysis by a unit of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), made public\u00a0through the Freedom of Information Act<\/a> only this week, showed that the DIA\u2019s National Center for Medical Intelligence (NCMI) believed early on in the pandemic that a Wuhan lab leak was plausible despite efforts by allies of Dr. Anthony Fauci to dismiss the possibility.<\/p>\n

The new details on the Biden-era Pentagon\u2019s failure to investigate clues pointing to the fall 2019 emergence of COVID-19 in Wuhan were\u00a0first reported<\/a> by the\u00a0Washington Free Beacon<\/em>, and the revelations about the DIA unit\u2019s analysis pointing to a Wuhan lab leak were\u00a0first reported<\/a> by U.S. Right to Know, a nonprofit, nonpartisan public health research group.<\/p>\n

The newly-published Defense Department report on the Wuhan Military Games was written in 2022 in response to congressional demands that the Pentagon investigate reports that U.S. military athletes got sick with COVID-19 after they participated in competitions in October 2019 in the city at the heart of the coronavirus outbreak.<\/p>\n

The public report \u2014 now released after more than two years \u2014 concluded that there was no significant uptick at military bases tied to the participating athletes, but also revealed that the Pentagon\u00a0had not tested the service members for COVID-19<\/a> nor for antibodies, admitting that \u201cDoD has not conducted or opened an investigation into connections between the outbreak of COVID-19 and the 2019 World Military Games.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The DIA NCMI\u2019s newly public analysis \u2014 dated June 25, 2020 \u2014\u00a0concluded<\/a> that “the molecular biology capabilities of [the Wuhan lab] and genome assessment are consistent with the hypothesis that SARS-CoV-2 was a lab-engineered virus.\u201d The NCMI analysis, which took nearly five years to be made public, said the available evidence even early on was consistent with COVID-19 emerging via lab leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV). WIV was led by so-called\u00a0\u201cbat woman\u201d<\/a> Shi Zheng-li, with the U.S. medical defense scientists stating SARS-CoV-2 could have been \u201cpart of a bank of chimeric viruses in Zhen-Li Shi’s lab at WIV that escaped containment.”<\/p>\n

The Defense Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Just the News<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has been clear for some time that all informed scientists \u2014 without exception \u2014 believed by early 2020 that COVID likely started with a lab incident in Wuhan, but that most chose to lie for five years,\u201d Richard Ebright, a professor of chemistry and chemical biology<\/a> at Rutgers University, told Just the News<\/em>. \u201cOver the last two months, it has become clear that U.S., UK, and German intelligence agencies \u2014 without exception \u2014 also knew by early 2020 that COVID-19 likely started with a lab incident in Wuhan, and also chose to lie for five years.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Wuhan Military Games<\/strong><\/h5>\n

The Defense Department report,\u00a0put together<\/a> by the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness and submitted to the House and Senate Armed Services Committees in December 2022, cost only $4,070 to compile \u2014 perhaps unsurprising given that the DoD admitted it had not conducted any formal investigation of links between the U.S. service members and the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic in Wuhan. The report, including the cover page, is three pages long.<\/p>\n

House Foreign Affairs Republicans\u00a0concluded<\/a> in August 2021 that the military games in Wuhan were \u201cone of the earliest super spreader events\u201d during the pandemic, with their report contending COVID-19 escaped from a Wuhan lab in late August or early September 2019 \u2014 with China then covering it up for months.<\/p>\n

Robert Redfield, Trump\u2019s former director of the Centers for Disease Control, had\u00a0said<\/a> in March 2021 that COVID-19 \u201cmost likely\u201d originated at the Wuhan lab and that it spread in the Chinese city in September or October 2019.<\/p>\n

The 2022 DoD report added that \u201cDoD has not engaged in any discussions with allied or partner militaries about illness associated with participation in the 2019 World Military Games\u201d either.<\/p>\n

The report did show that the U.S. military\u2019s delegation to Wuhan consisted of 173 athletes and 90 coaches and staff \u2014 with a total of 219 being military personnel \u2014 and that \u201c7 Service members who attended the games exhibited COVID-19-like signs and\/or symptoms during the timeframe of October 18, 2019 through January 21, 2020.\u201d The report noted that \u201cthe COVID-19-like symptoms could have been caused by other respiratory infections\u201d and stated that \u201call 7 Service members’ symptoms resolved within 6 days.\u201d<\/p>\n

Participating service members not tested<\/strong><\/h5>\n

The DoD report said that \u201cthe military facilities supporting Service members from the 2019 World Military Games reported no outbreaks of COVID-19-like signs and\/or symptoms shortly upon returning\u201d but that \u201cService members were not tested for COVID-19 or antibodies due to their participation in the 2019 World Military Games, as testing was not available at this early stage of the pandemic.\u201d The DoD provided no clarity on whether the U.S. military members were ever tested.<\/p>\n

\u201cData surveillance reports from military treatment facilities indicate no statistically significant difference in COVID-19-like symptoms cases at installations with participating athletes when compared to installations without them,\u201d the report stated. \u201cIn addition, no significant increase in COVID-19-like signs and\/or symptoms was documented for the dates of October 2019 through March 2020 as a result of U.S. Army separate surveillance testing.\u201d<\/p>\n

This newly-public report was\u00a0quietly released<\/a> on the Military One Source website \u2014 which is designed as a \u201cSupport for Military Personnel & Their Families\u201d \u2014 years after Congress passed the National Defense Authorization Act of 2022, which\u00a0told<\/a> the Defense Department, then led by Secretary Lloyd Austin, that the report \u201cshall be submitted in unclassified form and made publicly available on an internet website in a searchable format.\u201d<\/p>\n

While it was submitted to a House and a Senate committee in late December 2022, the report wasn\u2019t uploaded to be viewed by the public until sometime in late March of this year after Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth had taken the reins.<\/p>\n

GOP: Wuhan Games were a \u201csuper-spreader\u201d<\/strong><\/h5>\n

The GOP-led House Foreign Affairs Committee report was completed more than a year before the DoD finally made their report public. Then-Chairman Michael McCaul\u00a0said at the time<\/a>: \u201cSatellite images show a significant uptick in the number of people at hospitals around the WIV with symptoms similar to COVID-19. At the same time, athletes at the Military World Games became sick with symptoms similar to COVID-19. Some of them carried the virus back to their home countries \u2014 creating one of the earliest super-spreader events in the world, and explaining how countries who participated in the games had reported cases as early as November 2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Republican\u00a0report<\/a> said its lab leak evidence included \u201cathletes at the Military World Games held in Wuhan in October 2019 who became sick with symptoms similar to COVID-19 both while in Wuhan and also shortly after.\u201d<\/p>\n

The GOP report zeroed in on the city of Wuhan, which was picked to host the 7th International Military Sports Council Military World Games in October 2019, during which \u201cmore than 9,000 military personnel from over 100 countries stayed in Wuhan in accommodations at an athletes village built specifically for the games.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Chinese state-run China Internet Information Center\u00a0said<\/a> in October 2019 there were athletes from 109 countries. China\u2019s Organizing Committee of the 7th International Military Sports Council\u00a0proclaimed<\/a> that \u201cthe charm of sports will put Wuhan in global spotlight [sic].\u201d<\/p>\n

The Republican report noted that \u201cfour countries who sent delegations\u201d to the Wuhan games \u201chave now confirmed the presence of SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19 cases within their borders in November and December 2019\u201d \u2014 Italy, Brazil, Sweden, and France \u2014 with some of the athletes complaining of COVID-like symptoms in Wuhan.<\/p>\n

The World Health Organization\u2019s\u00a0joint report<\/a> with China in early 2021 said the Chinese Epidemiology Group, which provided information on the Wuhan games, allegedly found that \u201cno appreciable signals of clusters of fever or severe respiratory disease requiring hospitalization were identified.\u201d But the report added that \u201cthe joint team recommends that consideration be given to further joint review of the data on respiratory illness from the on-site clinics at the Military Games in October 2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

The report\u2019s meeting minutes from discussions between Wuhan lab scientists and the WHO-China team also revealed that lab leak concerns were dismissed as\u00a0\u201crumors,\u201d \u201cmyths,\u201d and \u201cconspiracy theories.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Chinese disinformation points to U.S. military base<\/strong><\/h5>\n

The Chinese government for years has continued to deflect from the Wuhan lab leak possibility by pushing a conspiracy theory<\/a> that COVID-19 originated from a U.S. military base. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian and others pushed the baseless claims about the U.S. military, including Maryland\u2019s Fort Detrick, starting in early 2020.<\/p>\n

Zhao\u00a0shared<\/a> an article in March 2020 from\u00a0Global Research<\/em>, tweeting: \u201cCOVID-19: Further Evidence that the Virus Originated in the U.S.\u201d The Chinese official also\u00a0tweeted<\/a> that month:\u00a0\u201cWhen did patient zero begin in U.S.? How many people are infected? What are the names of the hospitals? It might be U.S. army who brought the epidemic to Wuhan. Be transparent! Make public your data! U.S. owe us an explanation!\u201d Global Research<\/em> has been described by the U.S. State Department<\/a> as “deeply enmeshed in Russia\u2019s broader disinformation and propaganda ecosystem.”<\/p>\n

Then-Defense Secretary Mark Esper\u00a0said<\/a> in March 2020 that China\u2019s claims were \u201ccompletely absurd.\u201d And the Pentagon\u2019s \u201cCoronavirus: Rumor Control\u201d website\u00a0said<\/a> early in the pandemic that it was a \u201cmyth\u201d that \u201cU.S. service members visiting China were the source of the coronavirus outbreak.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Then-Rep. Mike Gallagher also\u00a0wrote<\/a> Lloyd Austin a letter seeking answers in June 2021, saying, \u201cAware that the cluster of illnesses associated with the World Military Games casts doubt upon the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s official timeline, Chinese government officials such as Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Zhao Lijian have sought to deflect blame onto the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n

The GOP report from August 2021 emphasized, \u201cIf the CCP realized an investigation would show an uptick in visits of patients with symptoms similar to COVID-19 in September, October, and November of 2019, this would likely be the actions they would take to cover up the source of those illnesses.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Republican report added: \u201cTo further drive this narrative, CCP-controlled media outlets accused Maatje Benassi, a member of the U.S. Army Reserve, as being \u2018patient zero.\u2019 Benassi competed at the Military World Games without becoming ill \u2026 Two weeks after Zhao tweeted that the U.S. army brought the virus to Wuhan, the\u00a0Global Times<\/em>\u00a0amplified<\/a> the narrative.\u201d Global Times<\/em> is not considered state-run media, but has been criticized for publishing<\/a> “Pro-Chinese government propaganda”<\/p>\n

After then-FBI Director Christopher Wray\u00a0confirmed<\/a> in early 2023 that the FBI had long assessed that a lab leak was the most likely origin for COVID-19, the Chinese government returned to its efforts to shift blame to the U.S. military.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAt present, more and more clues from the international science community are pointing the origins of virus to sources around the world. Many have raised questions and concerns about US bio-military bases at Fort Detrick and around the world,\u201d Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning\u00a0said<\/a> in March 2023.<\/p>\n

The Chinese Foreign Ministry also\u00a0responded<\/a> to the CIA\u2019s new assessment earlier this year that the U.S. spy agency had\u00a0\u201clow confidence\u201d<\/a> leaning toward a lab leak hypothesis by arguing that \u201cthe U.S. needs to stop politicizing and weaponizing origins-tracing at once, and stop scapegoating others\u201d and attempting to point the finger at \u201crelevant U.S. biological labs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pentagon leadership: “No knowledge”<\/strong><\/h5>\n

In April 2020, when Trump\u2019s then-defense secretary, Mark Esper, was\u00a0asked<\/a> about COVID-19 and the Wuhan military games in April 2020, he replied, \u201cI\u2019m not aware of what you\u2019re talking about.\u201d The then-chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark Milley, also said, \u201cYeah, I\u2019m not.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was also reported by\u00a0The Prospect<\/em><\/a> in June 2020 that, in response to questions about the Wuhan games, a Pentagon spokesperson \u201cissued a terse email response to the question, saying there was no screening because the event\u201d held in October 2019 \u201cwas prior to the reported outbreak.\u201d The outlet said the Pentagon spokesperson \u201ccited December 31, 2019, as the critical outbreak day and that no testing was deemed necessary for any possible exposure prior to February 1, 2020.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then-Pentagon press secretary John Kirby also\u00a0reportedly told<\/a> The\u00a0Washington Post<\/em> in June 2021 that \u201cthe Defense Department has no knowledge of Covid-19 infections among U.S. troops participating in the 2019 World Military Games,\u201d with the outlet adding that Kirby \u201csaid that there\u2019s no evidence U.S. military personnel were infected before travel restrictions the U.S. government implemented in early 2020.\u201d<\/p>\n

But as the newly-released Defense Department report revealed, the Biden Pentagon never formally investigated this saga.<\/p>\n

Scientists within DIA pointed to a Wuhan lab leak<\/strong><\/h5>\n

The second bombshell related to a never before seen June 2020 analysis by scientists within the DIA\u2019s National Center for Medical Intelligence. The\u00a0dozens of pages of slides<\/a> \u2014 titled \u201cSARS-COV-2 Genome Analysis\u201d and dated June 25, 2020 \u2014 were only released after\u00a0FOIA litigation<\/a> this week.<\/p>\n

“The molecular biology capabilities of [Wuhan lab] & genome assessment are consistent with the hypothesis that SARS-CoV-2 was a lab-engineered virus that was part of a bank of chimeric viruses in Zhen-Li Shi’s lab at WIV that escaped containment,\u201d the medical intelligence scientists assessed.<\/p>\n

U.S. Right to Know, which filed the Freedom of Information requests,\u00a0said<\/a> that the authors of the military analysis are not listed, but that they obtained the slides in response to FOIA requests seeking assessments authored by scientists Robert Greg Cutlip, John Hardham, and Jean-Paul Chretien \u2014 all of whom had worked for the DIA\u2019s NCMI.<\/p>\n

Cutlip was employed by the DIA from 2010 to 2021 and also worked for the Institute for Defence Analyses. He is currently listed as the\u00a0Director<\/a> of Cybersecurity and Data Analytics Programs at\u00a0Fairmont State University.<\/a> Hardham\u2019s LinkedIn page says that he is now a research director at the Center for Transboundary and Emerging Diseases at\u00a0Zoetis.<\/a><\/p>\n

Chretien\u2019s LinkedIn page states that he was the chief of pandemic warning at the Defense Department from August 2017 to August 2020, was at DoD\u2019s\u00a0Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency<\/a> from August 2020 to January 2025, and has been at\u00a0Renaissance Philanthropy<\/a> since then. He\u00a0wrote<\/a> on LinkedIn last year that he was \u201cleading DIA\u2019s Pandemic Warning Team when COVID came to light.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the material released, the scientists noted that there were \u201ca large bank of Bat Coronaviruses\u201d at the Wuhan lab. And the analysis also noted that the Wuhan lab conducted experiments at lower \u201cbiosafety level 2\u201d conditions, and said this \u201cwould make an accidental release\u201d of an infectious bat coronavirus such as COVID-19 \u201cmore likely.\u201d The analysis pointed out that \u201cChinese labs have had a history of virus escapes from BSL-2 laboratories.\u201d<\/p>\n

The analysis also cited statements that \u201cbat lady\u201d Shi Zheng-Li had made in the past about the low biosafety conditions in which she conducted her risky experiments.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/strong>Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2<\/strong><\/em>\u201d<\/strong><\/h5>\n

The \u200b\u200binfluential scientific\u00a0Proximal Origin<\/em><\/a> paper was published just over five years ago, scoffing at the Wuhan lab leak hypothesis in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic. Emails show Dr. Anthony Fauci, the now-former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,\u00a0\u201cprompted\u201d<\/a> the writing of that influential article.<\/p>\n

Scientists who consulted with the U.S. government early in the pandemic in 2020 believed it\u00a0was possible<\/a> or even likely that COVID-19 originated from a lab in Wuhan, yet emails indicate Fauci and Collins worked to\u00a0shut the hypothesis down<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Proximal Origin<\/em> article was written by five scientists: Kristian Andersen, Andrew Rambaut, W. Ian Lipkin, Edward C. Holmes, and Robert Garry. Andersen, a Scripps Research professor, wrote to Nature <\/em>magazine in February 2020 that he and other scientists had been \u201cprompted\u201d to do so by Fauci, Collins and Farrar.<\/p>\n

The widely cited article published in\u00a0Nature<\/em> magazine in March 2020 was\u00a0titled<\/a> \u201cThe Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2<\/em>\u201d and contended that SARS-CoV-2 likely emerged through \u201cnatural selection\u201d and not through a lab leak, casting doubt on the possibility that COVID-19 originated at a Wuhan lab.<\/p>\n

The scientists wrote that \u201cour analyses clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus\u201d and that \u201cit is improbable that SARS-CoV-2 emerged through laboratory manipulation of a related SARS-CoV-like coronavirus.\u201d Multiple scientists who signed onto the letter had\u00a0received<\/a> millions of dollars in NIH funding.<\/p>\n

Professor Richard Ebright told Just the News<\/em> that the Proximal Origin<\/em> paper was \u201ca product of scientific misconduct, up to and including fraud.” Ebright assessed that the paper \u201cplayed a crucial role in establishing the false narrative that science rules out a lab origin of COVID\u201d and noted that \u201cformal requests for retraction of the paper have been submitted.\u201d<\/p>\n

The military scientists shoot down Fauci-prompted \u201c<\/strong>Proximal Origin<\/strong><\/em>\u201d<\/strong><\/h5>\n

NCMI experts Robert Greg Cutlip and Navy Cmdr. Jean-Paul Chretien also wrote a working paper \u2014 published May 26, 2020 \u2014 which poked holes in the claims made by the Fauci-allied scientists. It, too, was not made public until years later.<\/p>\n

The bombshell paper was titled \u201cCritical Analysis of Anderson et al. The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2<\/em>\u201d and was only released when GOP Rep. Brad Wenstrup, the chairman of the Select Committee on the Coronavirus Pandemic,\u00a0made it public<\/a> in 2023.<\/p>\n

The military scientists argued: \u201cWe highlight the features of SARS-CoV-2, noted by Anderson et al<\/em>, are consistent with longstanding and ongoing laboratory experiments; the evidence Anderson et al. present does not lessen the plausibility of laboratory origin.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe consider the evidence they [Andersen et al<\/em>] present and find that it does not prove that the virus arose naturally,\u201d the NCMI report stated. \u201cIn fact, the features of SARS-CoV-2 noted by Anderson et al<\/em>. are consistent with another scenario: that SARS-CoV-2 was developed in a laboratory, by methods that leading coronavirus researchers commonly use to investigate how the viruses infect cells and cause disease, assess the potential for animal coronaviruses to jump to humans, and develop drugs and vaccines.\u201d<\/p>\n

DIA and ODNI leadership kept reports under wraps<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Multiple reports have also emerged that the NCMI analysis pointing to a possible Wuhan lab leak was not allowed to be shared outside of the DIA medical unit and was not included in broader analyses by the U.S. intelligence community.<\/p>\n

It was\u00a0reported<\/a> by\u00a0The Australian<\/em> in 2023 that the 2020 papers by the NCMI scientists \u201cpointing to a lab leak were blocked from wide dissemination.\u201d The outlet said that the DIA paper critiquing the paper authored by Fauci-allied scientists \u201cwasn\u2019t allowed to be released to the American public.\u201d<\/p>\n

The report added: \u201cA source said DIA scientists, the Lawrence Livermore National Lab, CIA, FBI\u2019s WMD unit, and the Army Medical \u00adResearch Institute of Infectious Diseases all agreed COVID-19 was not a natural virus. But in 2021, NCMI was blocked by DIA leadership from sharing info with the FBI.\u201d A director at NCMI reportedly told the scientists in July 2021: \u201cYou may not speak with the FBI WMD anymore. They are off the reservation on this.\u201d<\/p>\n

The outlet also contended that Biden\u2019s Office of the Director of National Intelligence \u2014 led by Avril Haines \u2014 whitewashed or ignored evidence from DIA scientists when putting together the summary of what the U.S. intel community allegedly believed about COVID-19 origins. \u201cThey said the information was too technical to include in the ODNI assessment,\u201d an unnamed source told the outlet. \u201cWhen the scientists saw the final document, they wondered were did all their edits go?\u201d<\/p>\n

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It was then\u00a0reported<\/a> by The\u00a0Wall Street Journal<\/em> in December of last year that the NCMI analysis \u201cwas at odds with the assessment of their parent agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and wasn\u2019t incorporated in the report presented to Biden.\u201d The WSJ <\/em>said that NCMI scientists \u2014 Hardham, Cutlip and Chretien \u2014 wrote the May 2020 lab leak paper but \u201cweren\u2019t allowed to circulate it outside of the medical intelligence center.\u201d The outlet also reported that NCMI scientists \u201cwere instructed by a superior at the medical intelligence center not to continue sharing their work with the FBI.\u201d The WSJ also reported that \u201cthe DIA Inspector General\u2019s office opened an inquiry in the spring into whether the scientists\u2019 assessment was mishandled or suppressed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Army Lt. Gen. Scott Berrier, who has since left his position as director of the DIA, spoke to the Senate in\u00a0<\/strong>May 2022 about COVID-19\u2019s origins, making no mention of the lab leak analyses within the DIA\u2019s medical unit.<\/p>\n

\u201cLimited and fragmentary data has led the Intelligence Community (IC) to maintain multiple theories on the origin of COVID-19,\u201d Berrier\u00a0testified.<\/a> \u201cFour elements and the National Intelligence Council assess with low confidence that the virus likely emerged from a natural interaction between an animal infected with the virus and a human; one IC element assesses with moderate confidence a laboratory origin is more likely and three 38 other IC elements are unable to arrive at either conclusion without additional information. All agencies agree the virus was not developed as a biological weapon and most agree that it was not genetically engineered.\u201d Berrier\u00a0joined<\/a> Booz Allen as the senior vice president in the company\u2019s national security business in June 2024. He did not respond to a request for comment that\u00a0Just the News<\/em> made through his company.<\/p>\n

Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., sent a December 2024\u00a0letter<\/a> to the DIA\u2019s watchdog, telling him that \u201cI am interested in the findings of the OIG\u2019s inquiry as to whether the NCMI\u2019s findings were appropriately included in briefings to President Biden and senior policy makers.\u201d The DIA inspector general did not respond to a request for comment from\u00a0Just the News<\/em>.<\/p>\n

By most accounts, the Biden Administration largely failed or refused to shed further light on the origins of COVID-19. Then-President Biden signed into law the \u201cCOVID-19 Origin Act of 2023\u201d and\u00a0claimed<\/a> that \u201cmy administration will declassify and share as much of that information as possible.\u201d Little key information was released during his presidency, and more and more reports are saying that important findings were suppressed.<\/p>\n

Then-DNI Avril Haines released an\u00a0assessment<\/a> in August 2021 stating that at least one U.S. agency \u2014 revealed later to be the FBI \u2014 had \u201cmoderate confidence\u201d that COVID-19 came from the lab, while four U.S. spy agencies and the National Intelligence Council believed with \u201clow confidence\u201d that COVID-19 most likely had a natural origin.<\/p>\n

Then-FBI Director Christopher Wray later confirmed that the FBI has long believed COVID-19 originated at a Chinese government lab. ODNI released in October 2021 a\u00a0declassified version<\/a> of the FBI\u2019s arguments in a section titled \u201cThe Case for the Laboratory-Associated Incident Hypothesis.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

It was also revealed in 2023 that the Energy Department \u2014 home to advanced research facilities such as the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories \u2014 also believed with \u201clow confidence\u201d that the coronavirus started at a Wuhan lab.<\/p>\n

EcoHealth Alliance calls lab origin a “conspiracy theory”<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Peter Daszak, the leader of the EcoHealth Alliance, steered large sums of U.S. taxpayer dollars from NIH funding to the Wuhan lab for bat virus research, a Government Accountability Office\u00a0study<\/a> showed.\u00a0Science<\/em> magazine\u00a0noted<\/a> that Daszak was a longtime collaborator with the Wuhan lab and its leader Shi Zhengli.<\/p>\n

Daszak\u00a0helped organize<\/a> a February 2020 letter in\u00a0The Lancet<\/em> which praised China\u2019s response and called the lab leak a conspiracy theory: \u201cThe rapid, open, and transparent sharing of data on this outbreak is now being threatened by rumours and misinformation around its origins. We stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin \u2026 Conspiracy theories do nothing but create fear.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite this, Fauci\u00a0tried to argue<\/a> to the BBC in 2022 that Daszak\u2019s letter did not dismiss the lab leak hypothesis.<\/p>\n

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EcoHealth Alliance had\u00a0proposed<\/a> the creation at the Wuhan lab of a virus with features \u2014 such as a\u00a0furin cleavage site<\/a> \u2014 strikingly similar to those found in SARS-CoV-2. It was\u00a0revealed<\/a> by\u00a0The Intercept<\/em> that EcoHealth had sought funding from the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for this project in 2018, but when the funding was rejected it appears the Wuhan lab moved forward anyway, just a year ahead of the first emergence of COVID-19.<\/p>\n

Gabbard: “Bipartisan frustration”<\/strong><\/h5>\n

A host of U.S. intelligence agencies still remain on the sidelines in the coronavirus origins debate.<\/p>\n

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard\u00a0said<\/a> during her Senate confirmation in January that many senators had \u201cexpressed bipartisan frustration about recent intelligence failures and the lack of responsiveness to your requests for information\u201d including related to \u201cfailures to identify the source of the COVID.\u201d Gabbard\u00a0announced<\/a> on Tuesday the creation of the Director\u2019s Initiatives Group which has been \u201creviewing documents for potential declassification \u2014 including information related to COVID-19 origins.\u201d<\/p>\n

“The DNI is dedicated to declassifying COVID-19 origins documents from across the IC,” a spokesperson for Gabbard told Just the News<\/em>. “Her new Director’s Initiative’s Group will lead the charge. More coming soon.”<\/p>\n

The CIA, now under Director John Ratcliffe, is walking a fine line. CBS News reported that the “CIA now says COVID most likely originated from a lab leak but has ‘low confidence’ in its assessment.” He\u00a0revealed<\/a> in January that “CIA assesses with low confidence that a research-related origin of the COVID-19 pandemic is more likely than a natural origin\u201d and at the same time, “that CIA continues to assess that both research-related and natural origin scenarios of the COVID-19 pandemic remain\u00a0plausible<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Ratcliffe had\u00a0testified<\/a> to Congress in 2023 that the CIA and other spy agencies had enough evidence to get off the fence and to join the FBI and Energy Department in concluding that SARS-CoV-2 most likely originated at the Wuhan lab, and hinted that the U.S. intelligence community was holding back because of the significant ramifications such public conclusions would have for the U.S.-China relationship. Ratcliffe argued at the time that \u201ca lab leak is the only explanation credibly supported by our intelligence, by science, and by common sense.”<\/p>\n

The German Federal Intelligence Service, known as the BND, reportedly also concluded that it was very likely that the pandemic emerged as an accidental lab release from the Wuhan lab, according to German news reports last month, but the BND was\u00a0blocked<\/a> from sharing their conclusions with the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe current Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, the CIA Director John Ratcliffe, FBI Director Kash Patel, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth all promised before confirmation to declassify and release intelligence on the origin of COVID-19, as required by the COVID-19 Origin Act of 2023<\/a>, but they have not yet done so.\u00a0They need to move rapidly to do so,\u201d Professor Ebright told Just the News<\/em>. \u201cAnd Avril Haines needs to be prosecuted \u2014 criminally prosecuted \u2014 for violating the law.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Double whammy: Two new reports point to Biden Pentagon cover-up on COVID-19 origins search More than half a decade after the pandemic began, key information on COVID-19’s origins continues to dribble out of the U.S. government \u2014 almost exclusively pointing to a Wuhan lab leak. Two new bombshell reports this week pointed to a cover-up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-covid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":541,"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions\/541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}