GOP Rep Demands Declassified COVID Origins Report, Criticizes DNI Summary of Findings: ‘Not sufficient’: ‘If we wanted their opinion, we would have asked for it,’ he said; Director of National Intelligence Releases Declassified COVID Origins Report, and other C-Virus related stories
GOP rep demands declassified COVID origins report, criticizes DNI summary of findings: ‘Not sufficient’:
‘If we wanted their opinion, we would have asked for it,’ he said
Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, demanded the Office of the Director of National Intelligence release the “intelligence” and “not their opinion about the intelligence” surrounding the origins of COVID-19.
CBS host Margaret Brennan asked Turner whether he believed there was a “definitive conclusion” that the government was not releasing.
“So I have seen, for example, the classified annex to the report that President Biden requested the intelligence community gave. What you just read were more conclusions by the intelligence community. In the report that was given to the president, the 90-day or so report, they have information in that report that contradicts, I believe, the impressions that are given in these statements by the intelligence committee. We want the intelligence released, not their opinion about the intelligence. If we wanted their opinion, we would have asked for it,” he said.
He demanded they release it to the American public and argued experts outside of the intelligence community needed to see it as well.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a nine-page report on the “Potential Links between the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the Origin of the COVID-19 Pandemic,” which analyzed the U.S. intelligence community’s understanding of the Wuhan, China-based institute at the center of the theory that the pandemic could have come from a lab leak, including its capabilities and actions of its personnel, the summary said.
While the intelligence community hasn’t come to a conclusion on whether the pandemic was spurred by a lab leak or from “natural exposure” by an infected animal – like at one of the wild animal markets in China – “All agencies continue to assess that both a natural and laboratory-associated origin remain plausible hypotheses to explain the first human infection,” the report said.
Brennan asked Turner why their findings were “so inconclusive.” —>READ MORE HERE
Director of National Intelligence releases declassified COVID origins report:
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has released the declassified COVID-19 origins report to members of Congress.
The nine-page report on the “Potential Links between the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the Origin of the COVID-19 Pandemic” analyzed the U.S. intelligence community’s understanding of the Wuhan, China-based institute at the center of the theory that the pandemic could have come from a lab leak, including its capabilities and actions of its personnel, the summary of the report said.
“This report does not address the merits of the two most likely pandemic origins hypotheses, nor does it explore other biological facilities in Wuhan other than the WIV,” it said.
The report was declassified in response to the COVID-19 Origin Act of 2023, which President Biden signed in March, requiring government information on what may have led to the pandemic to be declassified.
While the intelligence community hasn’t come to a conclusion on whether the pandemic was spurred by a lab leak or from “natural exposure” by an infected animal – like at one of the wild animal markets in China – “All agencies continue to assess that both a natural and laboratory-associated origin remain plausible hypotheses to explain the first human infection,” the report said.
The National Intelligence Council and four other intelligence community agencies have assessed that natural contact with a wild animal was the most likely cause while the Department of Energy and the FBI believe a lab leak was most likely. —>READ MORE HERE
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