JUST IN: CIA Director John Ratcliffe Releases Analysis by Biden’s CIA Favoring COVID Lab Leak Theory
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has issued a new analysis on the origins of the COVID-19 virus, which favors the theory that COVID escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China.
John Ratcliffe, nominated by Trump, confirmed by the Senate, and sworn in this week as CIA Director, released the files.
“One of the things that I’ve talked about a lot is addressing the threat from China on a number of fronts, and that goes back to why a million Americans died and why the Central Intelligence Agency has been sitting on the sidelines for five years in not making an assessment about the origins of COVID. That’s a day-one thing for me,” he told Breitbart earlier in the week.
Despite years of denial and censorship from government agencies, Big Tech, and mainstream media, the lab leak theory—once dismissed as a conspiracy—has gained substantial traction, now supported by findings from the FBI and other experts.
Since the onset of the global COVID-19 pandemic, government officials and medical institutions have fervently dismissed the lab leak hypothesis, labeling it a “conspiracy theory.”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the World Health Organization (WHO), and Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), have repeatedly downplayed the possibility of a lab leak, insisting instead that the virus was transmitted from animals to humans.
Per New York Times:
In the final weeks of the Biden administration, Jake Sullivan, the national security adviser, ordered a new classified review of the pandemic’s origin. As part of that review, the agency’s previous director, William J. Burns, told analysts that they needed to take a position on the origins of Covid, though he was agnostic on which theory they should embrace, a senior U.S. intelligence official said.
Another senior U.S. official said it was Mr. Ratcliffe’s decision to declassify and release the new analysis.
“I think our intelligence, our science and our common sense all really dictate that the origins of Covid was a leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology,” he told Breitbart. “But the C.I.A. has not made that assessment or at least not made that assessment publicly. So I’m going to focus on that and look at the intelligence and make sure that the public is aware that the agency is going to get off the sidelines.”
Until now, two agencies, the F.B.I. and Department of Energy, thought a lab leak was more likely. But their theories are different. The F.B.I. believes the virus came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The Energy Department put its bet on another lab, the Wuhan Center for Disease Control.
This further gives credibility to the findings by the House Select Committee on the Coronavirus Pandemic’s final report last month, concluding that “COVID-19 most likely emerged from a laboratory in Wuhan, China.”
Additionally, an FBI scientist came forward last month, claiming that the Biden administration deliberately sidelined critical evidence linking the origins of COVID-19 to a lab leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
In early April 2020, The Gateway Pundit was among the first to report that the Wuhan lab, Asia’s only Level 4 virology lab, was likely the epicenter of the pandemic.
At the time, these reports were met with fierce criticism, dismissed as “baseless” by so-called experts.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, The Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic previously released a damning report in July 2023, asserting a coordinated effort to downplay the lab-leak hypothesis of COVID-19’s origin and suppression of scientific discourse.
Once again, “conspiracy theorists” were most likely right all along.
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