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Biden Officials Shut Down State Department Investigation Into Wuhan Lab Leak Theory
Red State ^ | 05/25/2021 | Nick Arama

Posted on 05/25/2021 8:14:25 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Yesterday, Peter Doocy asked Jen Psaki why President Biden wasn’t pressing for more information on the Wuhan lab leak theory. “We have repeatedly called for the WHO to support an expert-driven evaluation of the pandemic’s origins,” Psaki replied. That answer was very troubling, I observed in our story on Psaki’s response. Is there an American investigation still ongoing into the question from the Biden team, I asked? Because it doesn’t sound like it, from what Psaki was saying — and because we surely can’t trust anything that WHO concludes on the matter, given their prior actions.

Turns out that was a good question to ask. Because now there are reports that Joe Biden actually shut down an investigation into that very question.

There’s a new CNN story out that breaks that bombshell news. But it looks like someone knew this information would be leaking out soon and this is part of the effort to soft-pedal the termination of the investigation.

The inquiry was launched in the State Department last fall under President Donald Trump to look into the origin of the pandemic and the leak theory. But the Biden folks cut the leak inquiry this spring. Here comes the spin as to the why.

But the inquiry quickly became mired in internal discord amid concerns that it was part of a broader politicized effort by the Trump administration to blame China and cherry-pick facts to prove a theory.

The decision to terminate the inquiry, which was run primarily out of the State Department’s arms control and verification bureau, was made after Biden officials were briefed on the team’s draft findings in February and March of this year, a State Department spokesperson said. Questions were raised about the legitimacy of the findings and the project was deemed to be an ineffective use of resources, explained a source familiar with the decision.

Sources involved in the Trump-era inquiry rejected criticisms over the quality of their work and told CNN their objective had been to examine scientific research and information from the US intelligence community which backed the lab leak theory and shone more light on how it could have emerged in the lab.

President Donald Trump rightly blamed China for the unquestionable cover-up that we already knew about. The “politicization” of the issue was on the part of the Democrats and some in media, like CNN, who were so focused on being anti-Trump and terming the lab leak question a conspiracy theory that they couldn’t be bothered to investigate.

🚨 The Biden administration *shut down* the work to identify the origins of COVID.

If "quality of the evidence" was the problem, why hasn't the Biden Team launched their own investigation? https://t.co/oWAoopHCwk

— Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) May 26, 2021

But if “politicization” was the issue, why didn’t the Biden folks just launch their own investigation? The answer seems clear: They weren’t interested in the truth, despite the fact that they should have been looking into it. That’s concerning.

We know that the intelligence community had been looking into it as I mentioned in another story earlier today. Is that still ongoing? Or did Biden shut that down, too? The CNN report says they are still looking into the question of the lab leak. What is the status of these investigations into the lab leak theory? Republicans in Congress have to be asking these questions since obviously, the Biden team and Democrats haven’t, despite all the harm that this has been wrought on the country.

The Biden team says they are still looking into the origins. But according to CNN, the Biden effort “is primarily focused on rallying pressure and support for the WHO’s investigation to be transparent and fulsome, explained a Biden administration official.” We already know that the answers from WHO can’t be trusted, so why would you count on them for the truth? Unless you didn’t care about the truth.



TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: coronavirus; investigation; origins; wuhan
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1 posted on 05/25/2021 8:14:25 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

He’s owned. Lock, stock and barrel.


2 posted on 05/25/2021 8:17:35 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them)
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To: SeekAndFind

Which probably explains why Fauci et al are finally now OK with saying “we can’t rule it out”, knowing that any real investigation was already buried.


3 posted on 05/25/2021 8:17:49 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: SeekAndFind

China sells us cheap crap.

They use some of the money to build mansions for the leaders of the communist party.

They use the rest of the money to buy foreign leaders like Biden.

Large portions of the Chinese people live hand to mouth.


4 posted on 05/25/2021 8:22:16 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: SeekAndFind

That’s what you get when your President’s son is engaged in felonious business practices with the target country. Can we recall Biden? Impeachment? I guess not with a Dim House and Senate. Nancy would never bring the bill up nor would Chuckles.


5 posted on 05/25/2021 8:23:37 PM PDT by Rembrandt (-a sure sign a Dem is lying - his lips are moving.)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

Nobody wants to take the fall for Fauci and the tongues will start wagging.


6 posted on 05/25/2021 8:24:55 PM PDT by cnsmom
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

10% goes to the Big Guy


7 posted on 05/25/2021 8:30:52 PM PDT by Campion (What part of "shall not be infringed" don't they understand?)
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To: SeekAndFind

wow.. it is only the most important question of the century, for the world... BTW— Tom Cotton has to stop tweeting from the future.


8 posted on 05/25/2021 8:41:45 PM PDT by freespirit2012
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder
"He’s owned. Lock, stock and barrel."

That statement is totally 100% correct. What is in doubt is he owned by corruption and blackmail or adherence in the same Marxist philosophy. I think he is basically a Marxists with dementia controlled by Marxists that are not senile. Oddly we get the expression of the Marxist that Joe Biden is and he does not know what the hell is going on. Even more oddly Joe Biden does love America of which he does not know what it it is. He has no concept of Freedom of man and speech. Thus by his logic he becomes the enemy of both. What the hell? He has senile dementia. That is a fact. Who in the hell is the President of the United State in reality . IT IS NOT JOE BIDEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

9 posted on 05/25/2021 9:01:19 PM PDT by cpdiii (Texan Coonass Cane Cutter Deckhand Roughneck Geologist Pilot Phamacist & much more education)
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To: SeekAndFind

It appears that Xi helped Biden get elected and Biden will not bite the hand that feeds him, even though the virus killed 600K Americans. Joe is willing to sacrifice them for his election


10 posted on 05/25/2021 9:10:04 PM PDT by realcleanguy (quickly things are falling apart, now that the )
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

On January 20, 2021 the United States of America became a China territory.


11 posted on 05/25/2021 9:12:00 PM PDT by Chgogal (Hey Biden, I am a loyal supporter of the Biden's Banana Republic!)
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To: realcleanguy

Looks like it was an accident in the lab in Wuhan. But what’s in it for China to be honest with the world? Nothing. Not like they’ll pay a price in sanctions, which is what we should be doing if they do not cooperate.


12 posted on 05/25/2021 9:22:55 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

It was NO ACCIDENT!!


13 posted on 05/25/2021 9:24:54 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

No proof.


14 posted on 05/25/2021 9:27:14 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican; Trump Girl Kit Cat

Gettin Close...

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/05/wuhan-universitys-animal-laboratory-origin-covid-19-pandemic/


15 posted on 05/25/2021 10:13:59 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 (If I wanted to live in China, I would move there!)
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To: cpdiii

Bingo! We have a winner for the Free Republic’s Truest Statement of Day.
Forget Biden and his perverted git. The real issue is who controls Biden. Who is really president and the ghost cabinet. These are the one behind the obvious administration sellout to Chine and the stolen election. This Cartel has to have a dominant leader and a staff of advisors/functionaries. Look closely and you will see who it is. The closer you get the quieter they become.


16 posted on 05/26/2021 12:56:23 AM PDT by .44 Special (Tp)
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To: SeekAndFind

José Xiden has to earn that 10%


17 posted on 05/26/2021 1:10:54 AM PDT by Feckless (The US Gubbmint / This Tagline CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
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To: SeekAndFind

FOLLOW THE MONEY.


18 posted on 05/26/2021 2:12:51 AM PDT by chopperk
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To: SeekAndFind

ALL DEMOCRATS ARE EVIL, VILE, VICIOUS LIARS! THEY MUST BE DEFEATED!


19 posted on 05/26/2021 3:32:40 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: cnsmom

Dr. Fraud should be arrested and sent to The Hague!


20 posted on 05/26/2021 3:33:41 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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