EXCLUSIVE: A military contractors’ report circulating in U.S. military & intel networks claims to have evidence that COVID-19 escaped from a Chinese lab. But some of the report’s best proof is completely false. We’ve got the receipts. thedailybeast.com/pentagon-contr…
Earlier this month, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said there was “enormous evidence” to suggest that the virus came from the virology lab in Wuhan. This military contractors’ report attempts to provide evidence for that bold assertion. thedailybeast.com/pentagon-contr…
The report claims to rely on commercial satellite imagery and cellphone location data to draw the conclusion that some sort of “hazardous event” occurred at the Wuhan virology lab in October 2019—an event that allowed COVID-19 to escape. thedailybeast.com/pentagon-contr…
“There was absolutely no traffic” near the facility from Oct. 14-19, the document claims. thedailybeast.com/pentagon-contr…
Small problem! DigitalGlobe satellite imagery reviewed by The Daily Beast shows that a total normal traffic pattern around the Wuhan virology lab exactly when this COVID catastrophe was supposed to have taken place. thedailybeast.com/pentagon-contr… 
The Pentagon contractors' report also clams this hazardous event shut down the Wuhan lab. Except... we found selfies on Facebook from the 'canceled' conference. thedailybeast.com/pentagon-contr…
The military contractors behind the Wuhan lab report "should have spent more time testing their analysis rather than working out how to crop the eye of Sauron into a logo copy-pasted from the internet," @N_waters89 from @bellingcat says. thedailybeast.com/pentagon-contr…
One question we weren't able to answer ... who paid for this report? Military contractors don't usually work for free. (A Department of Defense spokesperson told The Daily Beast that the group did not produce the report “in coordination with the DoD.”) thedailybeast.com/pentagon-contr…
