Surprise: CIA Now Leaning Towards Chinese Lab Leak For COVID

Many Credentialed Media outlets are leaving heavily on the “low confidence” assessment, but, that the CIA is even admitting this now is extraordinary. Heck, even printing articles on it, after years of calling people nutjobs and conspiracy theorists for saying it leaked from Wuhan and not from the wet market

C.I.A. Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid’s Origins

The C.I.A. has said for years that it did not have enough information to conclude whether the Covid pandemic emerged naturally from a wet market in Wuhan, China, or from an accidental leak at a research lab there.

But the agency issued a new assessment this week, with analysts saying they now favor the lab theory.

There is no new intelligence behind the agency’s shift, officials said. Rather it is based on the same evidence it has been chewing over for months.

The analysis, however, is based in part on a closer look at the conditions in the high security labs in Wuhan province before the pandemic outbreak, according to people familiar with the agency’s work.

It’s something most with a working brain thought back in early 2020, that it was just too convenient that COVID-19 started in the wet market because someone at a bat or something, particularly since the Wuhan Institute of Virology has had leaks before and is not known for their stellar security and medical protocols. Why is it so necessary to protect the Chinese government? Or, is it about protecting Anthony Fauci and the others who were funding the gain of function research in an adversarial nation?

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.

Should they not have been looking at this hard starting from the beginning of the Biden admin? You know, intelligence gathering, the mission of the CIA and other intelligence agencies? This is rather important information, seeing as how there have been over 1.1 million deaths reported to be connected to COVID. It might be nice to know the origination, right?

Since the outbreak of the pandemic, questions have swirled around whether the two labs handling coronaviruses in Wuhan had followed safety protocols strictly enough.

It’s just a coinkydink that they were working on Coronaviruses up the road from the wet market, right?

Even in the absence of hard intelligence, the lab leak hypothesis has been gaining ground inside spy agencies. But some analysts question the wisdom of shifting a position in absence of new information.

There was never any real evidence to support it coming from the wet market, especially since the Chinese government was saying it and blocking WHO from investigating.

BTW, does anyone else yell expletives at the TV/radio when they hear a commercial pushing Bat Flu Virus shots?

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