Suffice to say, the US intelligence community doesn’t know much at all, there’s a gap, they weren’t watching these labs. That doesn’t mean the lab leak theory is any less plausible. It just means we need a new, independent investigation into the labs.
https://twitter.com/ZcohenCNN/status/1396613457118642176
The question the intelligence community (and the Biden) administration should be able to answer is: what were the sick researchers working on? Was it bat coronaviruses that infect humans? That would be relevant to me. Also, where are they now? Are they OK?
And why is the Biden administration leaving it to tiny leaks from the intelligence community, which only sow confusion. It’s irresponsible. @SecBlinken and @jakejsullivan should declassify and release the Jan 15 statement underlying evidence now, in the interest of public health.
And guys, LISTEN. We can’t repeat the mistakes of Russia-gate where we overhype every “intelligence community officials say” snowflake. The Covid origin question is a YUGE US intelligence community failure. Their level of confidence in their own assessments are irrelevant.
The lab leak theory implicates the IC because, if it’s true, they TOTALLY MISSED IT. $80 billion per year and nobody was watching this network of Chinese labs working with the military on risky virus research. That’s the biggest intel scandal since 9/11.
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