Posted on 07/02/2026 4:26:07 PM PDT by Libloather
WASHINGTON — The Central Intelligence Agency is not fully cooperating with an investigation into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic and the likelihood that it was caused by a laboratory accident, according to a federal watchdog.
In a June letter obtained by The Post, Intelligence Community Inspector General Christopher Fox accused CIA Director John Ratcliffe of failing to provide records critical to determining whether the US government was engaged in what an agency officer recently testified was a “cover up” of the pandemic’s origins.
The internal watchdog is reviewing whether a team of analysts dispatched by then-Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard to uncover alleged President Biden-era intelligence failures on COVID was stymied.
Fox had earlier demanded answers from Ratcliffe about the allegations of analysts having their computer and phone usage tracked — as well as their communications with whistleblowers — and said he had up to this point received insufficient responses.
The IC IG found it “concerning” that the CIA director responded that there wasn’t evidence that his agency “illegally monitored” the analysts who were working with Gabbard as part of a special unit known as the Director’s Initiatives Group.
Fox also claimed the CIA was not complying with the federal law that compels the agency to “coordinate” with the IC Office of Inspector General for its oversight of such matters “as appropriate.”
The June 16 letter was sent to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and laid out Fox’s issues with the CIA after the Iowa Republican drew attention to the “serious” allegations put forward by the agency officer who testified to a Senate committee the month before.
“Americans deserve a full accounting of COVID-19’s origins and the Intelligence Community’s (IC) response, especially whether whistleblowers were unlawfully monitored amid fallout from the virus,” Grassley told The Post.
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Wanna see my shocked face?
Ratcliffe has to obtain them before he can provide them. There's no telling to what degree he actually controls every arm of that hydra.
At this point give a simple order, provide the information within a week or be fired for insubordination, lose all pension and risk further legal consequences for interfering with matters of national security.
No more games, fire the lot of them if necessary, the harm to do domestically likely outweighs any good they do.
I don’t think it was an accident. The virus was a clever way to force mail in voting: the easiest way to steal elections. That is why I’m now calling the 2020 election the COVID Coup.
Tempting to think that, but what about all the deaths in China and elsewhere? That’s a heckuva reach.
The Clinton’s made all kinds of rotten deals with the CCP. The Chinese would have been very happy to have another Clinton as President. They certainly did everything they could to spread fear. Exactly what you’d expect if they were in on the plot .
Although I am sympathetic to the goal, methinks firing that lot of vipers all at once would entail some pretty serious blowback, demanding a degree of tactical finesse, poison pills being what they are.
It would be a scene for sure but sometimes the only option is to start over.
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