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Biden signs bill to declassify info on COVID-19 origins
nypost ^ | 3/20/2023 | victor nava

Posted on 03/21/2023 8:57:34 PM PDT by bitt

President Biden on Monday signed a bill unanimously passed by Congress that requires the federal government to declassify some intelligence information on the origins of COVID-19.

The 80-year-old president spent more than a week mulling over whether to sign the legislation that sailed through Congress earlier this month.

The House of Representatives unanimously approved the COVID origins bill March 10 after the Senate passed the measure without opposition one week prior.

“I share the Congress’s goal of releasing as much information as possible about the origin of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID–19),” Biden said in a statement released by the White House on Monday.

In his statement, the president noted that in 2021 he directed the Intelligence Community to “use every tool at its disposal” to figure out where the virus that sparked the global pandemic originated from, and he said that that work is “ongoing.”

Biden added that he aims to release “as much of that information as possible,” including “potential links” to a sketchy Chinese research lab.

“We need to get to the bottom of COVID-19’s origins to help ensure we can better prevent future pandemics. My Administration will continue to review all classified information relating to COVID–19’s origins, including potential links to the Wuhan Institute of Virology,” Biden said.

“In implementing this legislation, my Administration will declassify and share as much of that information as possible, consistent with my constitutional authority to protect against the disclosure of information that would harm national security,” the president’s statement concluded.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biden; covid19origins; declassify
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1 posted on 03/21/2023 8:57:34 PM PDT by bitt
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2 posted on 03/21/2023 8:57:47 PM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=40%>)
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WHY would it have been marked classified in the first place???


3 posted on 03/21/2023 8:58:50 PM PDT by BipolarBob (The rumor has not been confirmed until the FBI officially denies it.)
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To: bitt
Mostly redacted.😡😡
4 posted on 03/21/2023 9:03:25 PM PDT by cowboyusa (There is no co- existence with Pinks and Reds)
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To: BipolarBob

Let’s find out who chose to Classify it in the first place. It sure wasn’t Trump...or Joe...


5 posted on 03/21/2023 9:04:28 PM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: bitt

We’ll share as much as possible...there’s a joke.


6 posted on 03/21/2023 9:05:14 PM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: bitt

Biden doesn’t want to look like he is protecting the Chinese. This is perhaps the only thing he has done that is a good thing. Ever. I’ve been waiting years, hearing bad thing outrageous thing after another, one lie after another, one faker pretending that he has dementia... now this solitary thing that he is doing that is good.


7 posted on 03/21/2023 9:12:29 PM PDT by BEJ
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“Biden doesn’t want to look like he is protecting the Chinese.”

It passed both houses unanimously. His veto would have been overridden.


8 posted on 03/21/2023 9:28:59 PM PDT by babygene (Make America Great Again)
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To: BEJ
> now this solitary thing that he is doing that is good.

Don't get too excited about it. He had no choice. How often does an important bill pass BOTH houses of Congress unanimously, not a single nay?

If he'd vetoed it they would have overridden the veto in a millisecond. If he'd just let it go without signing, he would look like a pussy. So he had to sign it.

Sorry, he doesn't get credit for doing something good when he had no other choice. You get credit for doing good when it's difficult, or when it costs you something, or when it takes some effort.

9 posted on 03/21/2023 9:30:02 PM PDT by dayglored (Strange Women Lying In Ponds Distributing Swords! Arthur Pendragon in 2024)
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To: BEJ

I wouldn’t expect much here given partisan operatives in the intel community have had years to massage the facts at hand and destroy whatever evidence they wanted.


10 posted on 03/21/2023 9:30:11 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: bitt

Bat soup. Sumting Wong in wet mahket.


11 posted on 03/21/2023 9:33:42 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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So the winter of death for the unvaccinated was..was..a lie? Fearmongering? Say it ain’t so. I just had my 23rd booster!...or not


12 posted on 03/21/2023 9:35:19 PM PDT by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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To: Sacajaweau

Fauci?


13 posted on 03/21/2023 9:35:47 PM PDT by tsowellfan
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To: FlyingEagle

So, they must have recently started eating Bat soup in China sometime around 2018 or 2019 because it seems to be the first time we saw Covid 19. It’s probably just a coincidence the Wu Han Lab was right next door playing with the same virus.


14 posted on 03/21/2023 9:39:46 PM PDT by tsowellfan
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To: bitt

Plugs is President (unfortunately), he can declassify anything he wants. He doesn’t need Congress to pass a declassifying bill for him to sign. Doesn’t make sense to do all of this unless this is some tactic to get Trump on taking classified even though he could declassify anything he wanted while President…


15 posted on 03/21/2023 10:14:14 PM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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16 posted on 03/21/2023 10:17:27 PM PDT by DeathBeforeDishonor1 ( )
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Who made Bitem sign it? It leads to Hunter Bitem and Ukraine.... I guess optics. Wouldn’t look good if he vetoed or didn’t sign.


17 posted on 03/21/2023 10:19:52 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Never worry about anything. Worry never solved any problem or moved any stone.)
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To: BipolarBob

The night this crap first popped up on FR, I was pinged because they blamed it on SNAKES.

Yeah.
Sure.
Because snakes can give mammals a glorified cold.

The next day it was “bats” because that’s a little less insane than “plague snake flu”.

I would say “Yeah, snakes caused this, alright” but that would be a dire insult to snakes.

Remember when they tried to tell us our cats and dogs would give us the coof and hysterical morons dumped their innocent pets into shelters?

Bastards.


18 posted on 03/21/2023 10:29:19 PM PDT by Salamander (Please visit my profile page help save my beloved dog's life. https://www.givesendgo.com/G2FUF)
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To: Sacajaweau

Much is a badly kept secret, the question is will they admit to it?

1) US Bioweapons/ pandemic response czar Fauci is the godfather of GoF, the 2014 GoF Ban was because Fauci was funding the dual purpose SARS “Vaccine” projects:

1a) Develop new short genomic sequences(bioweapons) to go onto the upcoming Sars2 spike protein that will infect humans.

1b) Develop the mRNA gene therapy that Always fails to provide protection to lab animals to [1a], yet Always have Serious Side effects.

2) US Collaborated with China/ sold out to China to get SARS2 to target genetically Russian Slavic nations, who have the highest C19 mortality


19 posted on 03/21/2023 11:09:08 PM PDT by TeleStraightShooter (Omicron could be the Live Attenuated Vaccine in project DEFUSE, which was rejected by DARPA)
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To: bitt

my Administration will declassify and share as much of that information as possible>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>..

BUhahahahahahahahahahahahah!

Old Joe still covering up for the Chinese.

WHat China has done to us and continues to do is to commit acts of war against us.

We need to make Taiwan a US stronghold, and a nuclear arsenal.

Xi needs to go.


20 posted on 03/22/2023 2:08:09 AM PDT by Candor7 ( ( Ask not for whom THE Trump trolls...He trolls for thee!)<img src=""width=500></img>)
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