Posted on 04/29/2020 4:37:30 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON - The White House has ordered intelligence agencies to comb through communications intercepts, human source reporting, satellite imagery and other data to establish whether China and the World Health Organization initially hid what they knew about the emerging coronavirus pandemic, current and former U.S. officials familiar with the matter told NBC News.
A specific "tasking" seeking information about the outbreak's early days was sent last week to the National Security Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency, which includes the National Center for Medical Intelligence, an official directly familiar with the matter said. The CIA has received similar instructions, according to current and former officials familiar with the matter.
President Donald Trump appeared to refer to the request at his news conference Monday. "We're doing very serious investigations," Trump said. "We are not happy with that whole situation, because we believe it could have been stopped at the source, it could have been stopped quickly, and it wouldn't have spread all over the world."
As part of the tasking, intelligence agencies were asked to determine what the WHO knew about two research labs studying coronaviruses in the Chinese province of Wuhan, where the virus was first observed. NBC News has previously reported that the spy agencies have been investigating the possibility that the virus escaped accidentally from one of the labs, although many experts believe that is unlikely.
The move coincides with a public effort by the White House, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Trump's political allies to focus attention on China's inability to contain the virus shortly after it emerged.
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as usual the Gov’t can and WILL do NOTHING.
... whereas FReepers and anons have laid the entire
Atrocity out.
Tick tock. Arrests or War ... or CW is coming.
Considering the record of the Deep State,fuggetaboutit.
China allowed some 400,000 people to get on airplanes and fly to the US at a time when NONE fo those people could fly to any location in CHina. That isn’t a conspiracy theory, it’s a fact. It’s also an Act of War.
We’ll get Clapper and Brennan right on it!
Bingo!
Intelligence agencies would have to take time out from subverting Trump.
Wake me up when Fauci, Birx and Redfield are indicted.
Was the Wuhan bio-lab conducting research which was illegal to conduct in the United States?
If so, who , if anyone, in the US government knew that?
And if it was known by anyone in the US government, was it known at the time that $3.7 million was sent to the Chinese Communists to pay for the Wuhan laboratory?
Dilanian of course is an anti-Trump spook.
Looking to undermine him and the country where possible.
To be fair, that also is on us.
What were we doing allowing them to come here?
I’d add American businesses to that list. Universities, too.
My bet is that with all those boots on the ground in China, employees going between both countries, students and staff, American biz and higher ed might have known something.
And if they did, they kept quiet. And if that happened, anyone who did needs to pay.
They’re still coming here. Trump banned domestic carriers, not foreign.
Ugh. Just like he recently banned “immigration”!
“They are Americans, we have to let them in...”. Don’t ask me how half a million people visiting China for the New Year are “Americans”. Not my pay grade.
We didn’t have to let them in without a mandatory quarantine.
Even after our supposed Italy ban, how many came home without any checks or queries at all? Report after report after report was in the news and on social media.
What did US biz and higher ed know, and when did they know it...
Yup. They need an attitude adjustment with a flurry of nukes.
Four more to add to the list: The state governments of CA, WA, NY, and the government of NYC.
What did they know and when did they know it...
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