Posted on 05/01/2020 12:14:20 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The U.S. Department of Education has asked the University of Texas (UT) to supply documentation on its relationship with the China-based infectious-disease lab at the heart of the controversy surrounding the origin of the CCP virus, the novel coronavirus that causes the COVID-19 disease.
Though scientists suggest the likeliest origin of the pandemic remains natural, investigators are looking into whether there is evidence to support a theory that the virus was the subject of scientific work at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and somehow escaped.
President Donald Trump, in remarks on Thursday, claimed to have seen evidence to support the theory that the virus had been in the lab and that the United States now “is finding how it came out.”
“It’s a terrible thing that happened,” the president said. “Whether they made a mistake or whether it started off as a mistake and then they made another one, or did somebody do something on purpose.”
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the clearinghouse for the web of U.S. spy agencies, said it agrees with the scientific consensus that the virus is not man-made but was still investigating the precise source of the global pandemic, which has killed more than 220,000 people worldwide.
The intel statement said the federal agencies concur “with the wide scientific consensus that the COVID-19 virus was not manmade or genetically modified.”
“The IC will continue to rigorously examine emerging information and intelligence to determine whether the outbreak began through contact with infected animals or if it was the result of an accident at a laboratory in Wuhan,” the statement said.
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“Between June 6, 2014, and June 3, 2019, UT reported approximately twenty-four contracts with various Chinese state-owned universities and ten contracts with Huawei Technologies, all purportedly worth a reported total of $12,987,896,” the letter reads.
Cause Trump knows that ALL universities have ties to the CCP.
ChiCom spi….er, students balance their budgets.
Hook’em Horns
Time to tell the truth and come clean.
Full disclosure please.
I do believe that all universities state or private involved in biological weapons research with foreign entities need to be closed and their endowments seized.
I agree.
“Though scientists suggest the likeliest origin of the pandemic remains natural”
And Epstein didn’t kill himself.
This type of research is purely in the domain of the government. The universities have too many loose cannons and weird ideologies.
If you have ever been trapped in a classroom with a hardcore commie professor, it is pure hell.
Should have been done already.
China sez, Go Texas Ronghorns!
“The Office of the Director of National Intelligence .. said it agrees with the scientific consensus that the virus is not man-made ”
There is no such consensus at all given the numerous scientific reports from diverse sources explaining how this virus could not have evolved naturally.
But it is not surprising the government is starting to come out and tell us how we should think even when the investigations are just getting started; admitting we have just been attacked by a bioweapon would mean war, and nobody wants that.
And Wanda killed Gary.
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