The CIA said last week that the COVID-19 pandemic more likely came from a lab leak rather than an infected animal.
According to German-owned Politico, the CIA did not provide details about whether it was from the research lab in Wuhan, China.
This announcement comes shortly after John Ratcliffe became the CIA’s new director.
“CIA continues to assess that both research-related and natural origin scenarios of the Covid-19 pandemic remain plausible,” the statement said, according to Politico.
Ratcliff told Breitbart last week that he wanted “to get to the bottom” of COVID’s origins.
“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,” he said.
“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,” the CIA Director added.
In 2023, former FBI Director Christopher Wray told Fox News that the “origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan.”
The US Energy Department also said in 2023 that the COVID pandemic came from an accidental lab leak. The department rated its judgment of this theory as “low confidence,” according to Fox News.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, social media companies censored people who suggested that COVID-19 came from a lab leak.
Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR), who received criticism for saying in 2020 that the pandemic started from a lab leak, said that “Communist China covered it up and the liberal media covered for them.”
“I’m pleased the CIA concluded in the final days of the Biden administration that the lab-leak theory is the most plausible explanation of Covid’s origins and I commend Director Ratcliffe for fulfilling his promise to release this conclusion,” he said. “Now, the most important thing is to make China pay for unleashing a plague on the world.”
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Zachery Schmidt is the digital editor of The Star News Network. Email tips to Zachery at zschmidt1717@gmail.com. Follow Zachery on Twitter @zacheryschmidt2.
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