CIA Now Moving on the Chinese Communist Origins of Covid, By Chris Knight (Florida)
For a long time, the mainstream view was that Covid had a natural origin and was not released, either on purpose or by an accident from a lab. The likely suspect was the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and early in the Covid outbreak, Western scientists move to protect communist Chinese scientists from the "racist" claims made by Trump that this was the Wuhan flu. But the natural origins hypothesis gradually got shot to pieces by heretics releasing critiques, until now the mainstream view is that it was a man-made gain-of-function virus, but the system is careful about this as it seems the US had under Dr Fauci moved its gain-of-function research to Wuhan, and hence is implicated.
The new Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director John Ratcliffe has said that he will investigate the Covid leak from the Wuhan lab. "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. I've been on record as you know in saying I think our intelligence, our science, and our common sense all really dictates that the origins of COVID was a leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. But the CIA 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."
Even if the US did fund the gain-of-function research of the Covid virus, it still remains to see how the virus escaped. It may be difficult to exactly pin down now, as it is a cold case and the communist Chinese long-ago covered up any evidence, and would not cooperate anyway. But it is worthwhile for the CIA to investigate these things, rather than investigating MAGA citizens, as it did under the Biden administration.
"Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director John Ratcliffe told Breitbart News in his first interview after being confirmed by the U.S. Senate on Thursday that he intends to immediately get to the bottom of what the Agency knows about COVID leaking from a Wuhan lab in China.
Ratcliffe was confirmed by the Senate Thursday and then sworn in by Vice President JD Vance as the newest director of the CIA. He spoke with Breitbart News on Thursday for his first exclusive interview, in which he laid out how he intends to reform the Agency to return the world's preeminent intelligence service to its core mission and depoliticize it. He also ripped previous CIA director John Brennan, who led the Agency during former President Barack Obama's administration, as being singularly responsible for steering it in the wrong direction.
When it comes to confronting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Ratcliffe did not hold back.
"I know from conversations with the president about where his priorities are and where he wants things to be as it concerns foreign threats to America's national security posture, and it starts with China," Ratcliffe said. "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. I've been on record as you know in saying I think our intelligence, our science, and our common sense all really dictates that the origins of COVID was a leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. But the CIA 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."
The CIA has been mired in controversy on this front for the past several years as a whistleblower alleged that Agency analysts who were tasked with determining how COVID originated were bribed to say it did not come from the Wuhan lab. Everyone agrees the virus came from China, but there has been disagreement as to whether it came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology or whether it spread from animals to humans in nature, though the lab leak theory has regained prominence if not dominance in recent years after originally being attacked. The CIA has still not taken a formal position on this, but with Ratcliffe at the helm, that is quite clearly going to change and soon.
More broadly than just confronting China on COVID, Ratcliffe said his role will be arming President Donald Trump with the facts and intelligence he needs about China so that way when he negotiates and communicates with his counterpart in Beijing, Chinese President Xi Jinping, Trump has all the information he needs to succeed.
"As President Trump deals with President Xi, he needs to be armed with the very best intelligence and to be able to talk about China in a way that if they caused or contributed to the death of a million Americans, the president needs to be armed with that," Ratcliffe said. "But countering China and its aggression is something I started as DNI. As you may recall, I did an op-ed along with Cliff Sims that highlighted the threat from China at the time. You may remember that I got criticized for being political and saying that I was out-sizing the threat from China. Well, fast forward four years later, the FBI director says in his exit interview that China is the biggest threat of our generation and gets praised for saying that. Well, we were saying that four years ago. So, really putting the focus on that and continuing that is really going to be something President Trump needs."
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