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CIA Now Favors [Wuhan] Lab Leak Theory on Origins of Covid-19
WSJ ^ | 1.26.25 | Michael R Gordon

Posted on 01/26/2025 7:59:52 AM PST by Words Matter

Agency says it had ‘low confidence’ in its finding, but this is further than it has ever gone in pinpointing the origin of a virus that killed millions worldwide

(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; chinesevirus; covid19; wuhan
4 years too late...
1 posted on 01/26/2025 7:59:52 AM PST by Words Matter
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To: Words Matter

So you’re telling me the CIA is racist?


2 posted on 01/26/2025 8:09:21 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: Words Matter

3 posted on 01/26/2025 8:14:30 AM PST by budj (Combat vet, 2nd of 3 generations.)
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To: Words Matter

At the request of Fauci and his demonRAT pals.


4 posted on 01/26/2025 8:18:14 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (For a good time, call Lisa M. 123-4567)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Fauci & minions were brought out to CIA to brow beat analysts into agreeing with the “Fauci” conclusion.


5 posted on 01/26/2025 8:21:21 AM PST by Reily (a)
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To: Words Matter

Bullshit. They were in on the creation and release of it.

“Lab leak” is a fallback position from the bat soup, wet market, natural occurrence story. They knew from day one it came from the Wuhan Lab, and that Fauci and Chapel Hill created it.

So what else were they going to say but “leak”? They going to admit the truth?
It was released deliberately. In the late summer and fall of 2019, Wuhan was rocked by mass protests. They quickly spread to Hong Hong and because very violent. The Chinese were frightened that it could spread across China.
Also, Trump beat the impeachment scam and was a runaway freight train headed to reelection.

So with Trump hurting China with tariffs, protests spreading in China, and DC terrified Trump was headed for reelection. It was released.
It wasn’t much more dangerous than a bad flu, most of the deaths came from medical misadventure.
But it only had to be bad enough to justify lockdowns in China and the USA to kill the Chinese protests and the US economy.

So we were treated with videos of Chinese dropping dead in the street, men in hazmat suits in line spraying disinfectant, etc.

“Lab leak” is their fallback from the wet market. When it was obvious that it was man made, they couldn’t exactly say “ok, we did it on purpose”.


6 posted on 01/26/2025 8:21:26 AM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI...)
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To: Words Matter

Amazing this story is unravelling.


7 posted on 01/26/2025 8:21:45 AM PST by HonkyTonkMan ( )
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To: Words Matter

Who do they favor for killing JFK?


8 posted on 01/26/2025 8:25:35 AM PST by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back!)
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To: Words Matter

The CIA is too unreliable to be taken seriously. And its unreliable because its political.


9 posted on 01/26/2025 8:27:49 AM PST by Spok
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To: Words Matter
Sen. Tom Cotton, the Republican chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, applauded the CIA for releasing its new judgment, which he called “the most plausible explanation of Covid’s origins.”

He added: “Now, the most important thing is to make China pay for unleashing a plague on the world.”

Is Cotton a known Deep State operative?

I mean, it's known that grant proposals to insert a furin cleavage site into bat coronaviruses were written in the US by US actors, at least one from the Defense Department, one from or through EcoHealth Alliance, and this genetic engineering work was also of great interest at NIH.

The ethics and safety of this work was actively debated at Infectious Disease scientific meetings where I was present at least between 2003-2014, and the bioterrorism people, the public health people, the vaccine people, and the pandemic preparedness people all had oars in the water on this material.

It is claimed that at least one interested party (EcoHealth Alliance) was a conduit for money to do this research in Wuhan after it was banned in the United States over safety concerns.

Under the circumstances, "making China pay" seems misguided at best, or maybe conscious concealment of relevant facts. The creation of SARS CoV 2 was very much a US project (deliberate or accidental TBD), and there's good evidence that China was surprised by its emergence and struggled, at least in November and December 2019, maybe earlier, to get a handle on what had happened.

10 posted on 01/26/2025 8:44:18 AM PST by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et de phrases)
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To: Spok

They have no credibility


11 posted on 01/26/2025 8:49:00 AM PST by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: Words Matter
They favor whatever direction the political winds go that day.

None of these federal agencies are objective and neutral.

They are all run by political appointees.

They are all concerned about their budget and want to expand the scope of their powers and size of their organization.

If we fire 50% of our federal work force, you would not notice a difference.

In fact, during covid 75% of your federal work force stayed home for over 6 months. What happened?

The federal government has become the nations biggest employer, but it also gives the people/citizens the least bang for the buck. Some of these federal agencies you could do away with in their entirety and it would make absolutely no difference to the average citizen.

Billions and billions of dollars go up in smoke, paying for folks that have no real net benefit to the nation or society in any shape or form. Department of education: waste. TSA: waste. Bureau of consumer protection: waste.

12 posted on 01/26/2025 9:00:09 AM PST by Red6
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To: Red6

It comes after the FBI already went that direction


13 posted on 01/26/2025 10:19:33 AM PST by Words Matter
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To: All
New word:

CoVindication

14 posted on 01/26/2025 10:21:52 AM PST by Words Matter
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https://brownstone.org/articles/will-any-federal-officials-pay-for-what-they-did/

Brownstone » Brownstone Journal » Government » Will Any Federal Officials Pay for What They Did?

Will any Federal Officials Pay for What They Did?

By James BovardJames Bovard January 24, 2025 Government, Public Health 6 minute read:

The biggest scientific con of the century is finally being exposed.

But will any politicians or government officials ever be held responsible for the carnage they unleashed on Americans?

https://brownstone.org/articles/will-any-federal-officials-pay-for-what-they-did/


15 posted on 01/26/2025 2:23:21 PM PST by Grampa Dave (If history teaches us anything: It's that history rarely teaches anything! (outofsalt))
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To: Words Matter

Peter Daszak, EcoHealth Alliance and Anthony Fauci all in bed with China, GOF research moved from Chapel Hill NC to Canada and then to Wuhan. Total PSYOP response forcing a toxin onto the entire world. Millions dead from their evil.

This is why Faucis “Pardon” needed to be backdated to 2014.


16 posted on 01/26/2025 4:40:21 PM PST by captmar-vell
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To: Words Matter

So in one week the CIA figured out the virus was a lab leak? What have they been doing for the last 4 years? Unless they knew it all along but how is that possible?


17 posted on 01/27/2025 9:42:55 AM PST by EandH Dad (sleeping giants wake up REALLY grumpy)
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