Posted on 05/26/2021 7:28:20 AM PDT by Red Badger
JOE Biden's administration shut down a Donald Trump-era investigation into the Wuhan institute at the center of the Covid-19 lab "leak" theory, it was reported Tuesday.
The State Department effort to prove Covid originated in a Chinese lab was reportedly stopped by Biden over concerns about the "quality of work" - but will raise concerns of a potential whitewash.
The probe was launched last fall by allies of then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, CNN reports, citing sources close to the matter.
The news comes as a renewed interest into whether the virus could have originated in a lab has been made public.
A bombshell report released by the Wall Street Journal this week alleged that three staffers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology became ill and had to be hospitalized in November 2019, weeks before China disclosed the outbreak to the world.
The report led to renewed calls for a broader probe into whether Covid-19 could have escaped from a lab in Wuhan, where the pandemic is widely believed to have begun.
Even the nation's top infectious disease expert Dr Anthony Fauci admitted that he was "not convinced" that the virus is naturally occurring.
Those involved in the probe that was shuttered say that it was an honest effort to look into whether China's biological weapons program could have played a role in the pandemic's origin, according to CNN.
Biden officials reportedly made the decision to shut down the probe after being briefed on the team's findings in February and March of this year.
The inquiry reportedly led to internal turmoil in the department, as some viewed it as a way for the Trump administration to politicize and blame China for the global pandemic.
However, sources involved in the probe told CNN that their work was to examine scientific research and information objectively.
After news of Wuhan lab staffers falling ill broke, Trump said that he's sure the Chinese institute is responsible for the pandemic.
"I think you can take the word ‘potential’ out that it came from the lab," he told Fox Nation's Dan Bognino on Monday.
During a Tuesday appearance on Newsmax, Trump said there's "no doubt" in his mind that the virus came from the Wuhan lab before touting his role in developing the Covid vaccines.
The Biden administration's effort to investigate the origins of Covid-19 focus more on backing the World Health Organization's investigation and demanding transparency from China.
The WHO said earlier this year that the origin of Covid-19 is still unclear and further investigations are needed.
Biden's security officials have also admitted that the US is still mired in trying to figure out how the virus became a global pandemic.
"It is absolutely accurate the intelligence community does not know exactly where, when, or how Covid-19 virus was transmitted initially," US Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines said last month during a congressional briefing.
Over the weekend, China's foreign ministry noted that the WHO-led team concluded a lab leak was extremely unlikely after a visit to Wuhan in February, and blamed the US for continuing to "hype the lab leak theory."
"Is it actually concerned about tracing the source or trying to divert attention?" the ministry asked.
A WHO task force spent four weeks investigating the outbreak in Wuhan in January and February.
That proves the chinese virus was manufactured and distributed by the chicoms with the help of the US democrat party.
It was probably developed to ‘fix’ both America’s and China’s common ‘problem’....................Too many old people....................
It wasn’t a leak. (A leak being considered accidental / unintentional.)
It was intentional biowarfare; a conspiracy between the U.S. Deep State and the Communist Chinese, and perhaps... probably with the connivance of the general Globalist conspiracy; The UN, The WHO and the WEF, etc, .. Set up by Fauci, Paid for with U.S.taxpayer dollars by 0bama.
Now they want to sue Trump for calling it the “Chinese Virus”. Sure looks suspicious in my mind. It begs the question of who among several would I trust the least...the Biden Administration, the PRC, WHO, The U.N., Democrats,etc.,etc.
If President Trump had said that the virus didn’t originate in the Wuhan lab, it would be “proven” by now that it absolutely did.
a) Weakens America/AmericansSome things never change...
b) Distances America's allies
c) Strengthens America's enemies
d) Attacks Christianity
e) Serves islam
f) Harms Israel
Or some combination of the above.
Anyone surprised?The government wants to disarm us after 245 yrs 'cuz they plan to do things we would shoot them for!Please chime in so we can assign you a caretaker...
At no point in history has any government ever wanted its people to be defenseless for any good reason ~ nully's son
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Courtesy the Communist "People's" "Republic" of China, China, China!
Daily Mail ^Posted on 5/23/2021, 12:22:54 PM by algore
Dr Anthony Fauci questioned the origins of COVID-19 at a May 11 PolitiFact event
Asked if he's 'still confident it developed naturally', Fauci said: 'No, actually'
'I think we should continue to investigate what went on in China until we continue to find out to the best of our ability what happened,' he said
Fauci's comments came after he clashed with Sen Rand Paul on the topic at a Senate hearing earlier this month In front of the Senate Fauci said he could not rule out the possibility that COVID-19 leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology
On Thursday the White House renewed calls for an 'independent, transparent investigation' into the origins of the virus.
It followed a report from Republicans which found 'significant circumstantial evidence' of a lab leak.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk …
i believe you and i are in agreement
Newsmax/OANN reporter: Mr. President, why did your state department shut down the investigation into the Wuhan Lab?
Xiden: Huh? Whuht?
PING!
Not surprised at all
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