Posted on 12/26/2024 5:47:45 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Say, remember when the government and the media treated the lab-leak hypothesis of COVID-19's origin as a conspiracy theory? At the time, social-media platforms suppressed discussion and debate over that explanation. The media treating anyone who noticed that a deadly and novel coronavirus had emerged in the same place where biologists just so happened to be conducting gain-of-function research on --ta da! -- coronaviruses.
The question of origin became so important to foreign policy and epidemiological strategy that Joe Biden ordered the US intel community to do an analysis to pin down the origins of the deadly pandemic. That review concluded with "low confidence'" that it originated in a jump from an animal to humans in Wuhan. But that conclusion came after a scientific study conducted by one of those agencies was never presented to Biden -- a study that looked at te virus and proved that it had been the result of manipulation of the same type conducted at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
The Wall Street Journal exposes the incompetence, or worse:
The dominant view within the intelligence community was clear when Avril Haines, the director of national intelligence, and a couple of her senior analysts, briefed Biden and his top aides on Aug. 24. The National Intelligence Council, a body of senior intelligence officers who reported to Haines and that organized the intelligence review, had concluded with “low confidence” that Covid-19 had emerged when the virus leapt from an animal to a human. So did four intelligence agencies.
At the time, the FBI was the only agency that concluded a lab leak was likely, a judgment it had rendered with “moderate confidence.” But neither Bannan nor any other FBI officials were at the briefing to make their case first hand to the president.
“Being the only agency that assessed that a laboratory origin was more likely, and the agency that expressed the highest level of confidence in its analysis of the source of the pandemic, we anticipated the FBI would be asked to attend the briefing,” Bannan recalled in his first on-the-record interview on the subject. “I find it surprising that the White House didn’t ask.”
Dr. Jason Bannan, an FBI microbiologist and investigator in biological warfare, had already warned that this looked man-made. He had been prepared to go to the White House to lay out the case for the lab leak origin. However, as the story notes, the call never came. For some reason, no one wanted to hear from Bannan despite his expertise and insight into the very mechanisms that create viral weapons.
Only this isn't really a story about Bannan or the FBI. As it happens, another unit within the Defense Intelligence Agency had gone even further and conducted a full-blown study of the virus, and had reached the same conclusion. The virus itself showed evidence of human manipulation, which when put together with the proximity to WIV made it clear that the pandemic resulted from dangerous methods and shoddy security around them. Only the White House didn't want to hear that either:
But an investigation by The Wall Street Journal shows that the disagreements among intelligence experts over what should be included in the report ran deeper than is publicly known. Nor were the FBI scientists the only ones who believed that the intelligence directorate’s review didn’t tell the whole story.
Three scientists at the National Center for Medical Intelligence, part of the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency, conducted a scientific study that concluded that Covid-19 was manipulated in a laboratory in a risky research effort. But that analysis was at odds with the assessment of their parent agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and wasn’t incorporated in the report presented to Biden.
In terms of difficulty, reaching this conclusion would appear to be somewhere around a 1 on a 1-to-10 scale. Intel agencies knew what WIV was and what types of research they performed. The NIAID helped fund the gain-of-function research on coronaviruses, after all, under the guidance of Anthony Fauci. The NIH -- NIAID's parent agency -- also knew of serious deficiencies in WIV's security, which required a Level 4 approach but whose practices routinely fell far short.
However, the three scientists at NCMI had more evidence than just circumstance, emphasis mine:
Three scientists there—John Hardham, Robert Cutlip and Jean-Paul Chretien—conducted a genomic analysis that concluded that the virus had been manipulated in a laboratory. Specifically they concluded that a segment of the “spike protein” that enables the virus to gain entry into human cells was constructed using techniques developed in the Wuhan lab that were described in a 2008 Chinese scientific paper. That was an indication, they argued, that the Chinese scientists were conducting “gain of function” research to see if the virus could infect humans.
That is what we used to call evidence. It certainly would be a smoking gun revelation, even to non-intel investigators, if politics were not involved. And yet this, along with Dr. Bannan's work in parallel, didn't just get discounted in this August 2021 presidential briefing but entirely suppressed.
Why? The obvious reason is that Biden didn't want to confront China over its role in creating the virus as well as refusing to cooperate in fighting it. To conclude that China manufactured the virus would prompt the US to cut off any more cooperation with China on medical research, a step that should have been taken well before the pandemic based on the deficiencies already known at WIV. Biden wanted to differentiate his administration from Trump's pugnacious China policies, perhaps in no small part because of Biden Inc interests that Hunter Biden had cultivated in the Obama administration.
Instead of dealing with the obvious, the Biden administration kept insisting on the zoonotic-transfer hypothesis despite a lack of any evidence for it. And then they worked with censorship groups funded in part by the State Department to punish anyone who dissented from that conclusion as "conspiracy theorists" and supposedly dangerous purveyors of "disinformation."
And it worked, too. It has taken three years to start getting the truth, and even then only because voters kicked Biden and Harris out of office. The incoming administration will get a chance to look at the records, and the current custodians know it.
Just imagine what else they've been lying about. Hopefully, we'll find out soon.
I wonder what the “Intelligence Community” thinks when they hear something on the evening news?
The covidians were adamant that this was wrong and we were all conspiracy theorists for it.
Some wanted people arrested (!) for saying it was a lab leak.
Some of those mongloids still post here, still pushing pro jab propaganda.
I do so hope they’re fully baxxed and voosted to comply with their ideal boot state.
Paging all covidiots and vax nazis, call on the white curtesy phone, please pick up to get a clue.
We aren’t conspiracy theorists when we time and again are proven to be right. We see through the BS shoveled out by the “experts”. We relied on the other mocked and laughed t experts warning about it, those with their own areas of expertise. We all saw through the BS. We are ths truth detectors. We expose the BS artists.
No use, they’re deluded and fearful to the point they believe they’re absolutely correct.
They wholeheartedly believe that no jab no job and antijab reeducation camps were the way to go.
A father named Randy who grows marijuana went to China and had sex with a pangolin, and also a bat. It was egged on by Chinese Mickey Mouse, who taunted Randy. The idea that a bat and pangolin merged their separate virus strains and then gave it to a human, was otherwise crazy.
China is too stupid to have done this. That documentary from South Park explains it all, with cameras there recording, when it happened.
I find it interesting that Fauci said in 2017 that Trump “Will” have to face a pandemic and lo and behold one was ready made for release.
Even more telling, some of those same people are making the same noises again about “the coming pandemic”.
Fauci testified multiple times before congress that gain of function research wasn’t happening and that Covid wasn’t due to a lab leak and funding of work at wuhan was all on the up & up. He lied and knew it. Will anyone call him on this or will it just be dismissed out of hand?
It was a mistake. He had a cold. Same thing?
Spy bosses ‘silenced’ Defense Department, FBI scientists from briefing Biden on COVID lab leak evidence
There need to be war crimes trials.
Absolutely
It is a conjecture (SWAG) that fauci seems to be like the fireman who commits arson to have a fire to fight. Nothing really to do until a new virus comes along.
Or at least the NIH is like that. Preparing for a time that may come but left in the cold until some novel virus comes calling.
Most everyone here on FR knew it all along, and we knew our government was trying everything they could to suppress the truth. It’s now high time for folks like Gates and Fauci to be sent to the nearest gulag, all of their wealth seized, and the millions of people and/or their families who suffered for their act of treason are compensated.
The Deep State Twelve-Step Program (Things We All Know):
1. Fauci funds Gain of Function Research on Coronaviruses, supposedly even after the Obama administration ordered it stopped for being too dangerous.
2. Inevitably, highly infectious coronavirus escapes insecure Wuhan lab.
3. China shares the pain worldwide via air travel.
4. Worldwide sickness, deaths, pandemonium.
5. Crisis used by government to greatly expand its control, disrupt economy, cancel civil rights, force shutdowns of schools, businesses, curtail travel, enforce mask requirements, require untested vaccines.
6. Government controls destroy businesses.
7. Government spews funding and handouts most did not need or ask for. Massive abuse/cheating. Massive increase in deficits and debt.
8. Crisis used to suspend election laws to facilitate theft of 2020 presidential election.
9. Under the guise of fighting “dangerous misinformation”, the IC intimidates/pays/suborns media to promulgate its desired narrative and suppress alternatives, incuding the IC’s own false conclusions on cause of the pandemic.
10. Through all of the above, the IC engineers election of Biden/Harris.
11. Because neither Biden nor Harris have the mental capacity to hold office, IC puppeteers run the government.
12. IC puppeteers destroy the economy, cause energy costs to skyrocket, trigger hyperinflation, destroy the value of savings, etc. to transfer wealth for earners/savers to do-noughts and debtors.
Hard to believe there was no hand on the tiller.
The CIA paid two analysts to change their finding from lab leak to the animal leap.
There were several news reports on it.
Notice how many “dont believe government” and “knew it all along” but still insist that it was a leak/escape.
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