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.
Hillary just told them NOT TO!!!!!
Wanna see my shocked face?
lol. Does the CIA have a right to use the 5th Amendment?
I’ll ‘give you’ “the Chinese being ‘in on it,” but how do you explain the rest of the world? It doesn’t work, even as a loose confederation of like-minded elites schooling up like bait fish.
In India they distributed Ivermectin. It was an effective cure. Actual cures in America were discouraged. Real fear was needed to make mail in voting common. To push up the fear they even had nursing homes deliberately infected to create causalities.
So your argument shifts from the origins of the bug to alternate treatments?
A simpler explanation is that Dr. Fauci (NAIAD) and Eco-Health Alliance were involved in a conspiracy to skirt US Law and they would not admit to the basics — that they were engaged in gain-of-function research. I believe that this was done exactly for the purposes of getting the RNA techniques accepted as a technique for rapid-prototyping of vaccines without proper safety & efficacy trials. Nothing about elections in that.
The Democrat Party had been hunting Donald Trump for 3+ years at that point. If Trump hadn’t bet into the situation with Operation Warp Speed he might not have lost that election.
No. The rest of the World was merely collateral damage. I mentioned India as an example of a country that took a more reasonable response than what China and the US did.
Another example of pumping up the fear was masks. A virus is smaller than the mask can stop. They were not effective. Why push them anyways? To make the fear an everyday experience. If you start with the premise that for the plot to succeed you have to maximize the fear all the dots add up . All the irrational things that were done for this virus suddenly make sense if you conclude it was all done to steal the election.
Did you all notice that no one in the House or Senate passed away from covid? Even those in their 80’s?
But they were fine with the deaths of American citizens.
Were members of the House and Senate even required (pressured?) to take the Covid not-a-vaccine?
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