Posted on 05/26/2021 7:46:35 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Biden administration shut down a State Department probe into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, looking specifically at whether the novel coronavirus came from a Chinese lab, according to CNN.
The inquiry, which was launched by “allies of then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo,” began last fall, but was ended in the spring after draft findings were presented to Biden officials.
Questions were raised about the legitimacy of the findings and the project was deemed to be an ineffective use of resources, explained a source familiar with the decision.
Sources involved in the Trump-era inquiry rejected criticisms over the quality of their work and told CNN their objective had been to examine scientific research and information from the US intelligence community which backed the lab leak theory and shone more light on how it could have emerged in the lab.
Though Biden officials shut down this particular inquiry, they remain skeptical of Beijing's role in limiting investigators from accessing information that may be pertinent to the origins of the virus. (CNN)
Renewed focus has been put on the lab theory after The Wall Street Journal reported three people who worked at the Wuhan Institute of Virology were sick enough to be hospitalized in November 2019, though it is not confirmed they had COVID-19. Previously, the WHO and China put forth theories that the virus naturally spread from animals to humans. But Dr. Anthony Fauci and CDC Director Rochelle Walensky have now acknowledged the coronavirus could have been developed in a lab. Additionally, the House GOP also released a report recently pointing to “significant circumstantial evidence” the coronavirus originated from the Chinese lab.
When pressed on the matter during Tuesday’s press briefing, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said she believes an international investigation should take place to probe the lab leak theory, not a U.S.-led one.
Q Thanks, Jen. To follow up on some of the questions about investigations on the origins of the coronavirus —
MS. PSAKI: Yeah.
Q You’ve spoken a lot about the need for an independent investigation. What role does the Biden administration think U.S. scientists or CDC scientists should play in that investigation?
MS. PSAKI: Well, the WHO would be the body that would be overseeing a transparent, indef- — independent, phase two investigation. That’s something we have strongly supported.
That would require China finally stepping up and allowing access needed to determine the origins. Of course, the United States would be supportive of that second stage of the investigation, but it would be led by an international body.
Q So the U.S. wouldn’t take a lead role, essentially, in this investigation?
MS. PSAKI: Again, the WHO, which we rejoined when the President took office, is the body that we have been pressing and is the appropriate body for moving this investigation forward.
Jao is a CHYNA CCPuppet
I am pretty sure we know WHY they did it, and I'm pretty sure the above quote isn't the reason.
I get the sense that they want an independent investigation, and that while Trump wanted the US to do the independent investigation by itself, Biden feels more comfortable having an independent investigation run by an international organization controlled by China.
Because they are China’s lackeys and want to cover for them.
“...Why the Biden Administration Reportedly Shut Down a Probe Into Coronavirus Lab Leak Theory...”
Seriously?
Anyone in this country, with a 3rd grade education, has known the answer to that one from the beginning!
It’s still the f-ing job of our government to find out WTF this thing originated! My God does everything have to be political? Remember that not one Democrat was going to take the Trump vaccine but now if they could they would put people in concentration camps and jab away.
MS. PSAKI: Again, the WHO, which we rejoined when the President took office, is the body that we have been pressing and is the appropriate body for moving this investigation forward.
Says it all.
Most likely, they are covering their own complicit a$$e$. . . . as it very well could have been part of their election fraud strategy.
Slo Joe’s band of commies sure do seem to prefer obfuscation over transparency . . . Honest people have nothing to hide.
Who the hell thinks the state department was ever going to get to the bottom of anything anyway?
Come on now.
Why? Biden received $1.5 billion from the communists.
That’s why!
What is China had far more lethal viruses based on other SARS platforms?
What if they have a vaccine for a designed virus?
What if they vaccinated their population and launched the virus on the West?
What if? I think most sane people would admit this is possible. Do we really trust the CCP?
We cannot even investigate this clown show without having a “global approach” with a WHO that is hopelessly compromised by China.
What “if” China
Has there ever been an administration in the US that had less control over the bureaucracy than the Trump administration?
We had senior executives throughout government who openly opposed a duly elected President from day 1. Leaks and other acts of sabotage were normal.
The WHO is part of Commie China, 0 truth will emerge. We are in deep trouble here.
Of course Joe Biden is compromised and being blackmailed. One look at the videos of Hunter that were on his laptops proves that fact.
The kung flu was developed by the democrats and chyna to destroy the varius governments to set up a one world marxist gubmint.
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The people should determine what is an effective use of resources.
NOT elected PUBLIC SERVANTS.
Also, filing lawsuits and trying to impeach presidents who have been forced from office is NOT an effective use of resources.
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