By They always knew. In August 2021, President Joe Biden received a briefing from U.S. intelligence agencies on the origins of COVID-19. The review concluded with “low confidence” that the virus had emerged naturally through zoonotic transmission—a jump from an animal to a human in Wuhan, China. However, recent findings suggest that critical analyses supporting an alternative theory were not presented to the president because it undermined a narrative the intelligence community, and Anthony Fauci, wanted to keep under wraps, according to a new investigative report by The Wall Street Journal.
While most intelligence agencies leaned toward the zoonotic explanation, the FBI took a different stance. The Bureau assessed with “moderate confidence” that the virus likely resulted from a lab leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV). Despite the significance of this conclusion, Dr. Jason Bannan, an FBI microbiologist and expert in biological warfare, was excluded from the presidential briefing and unable to share the FBI’s findings directly.
“As the only agency that assessed a laboratory origin as more likely, and with the highest confidence level, we expected to be included in the briefing,” Dr. Bannan told WSJ.
The outlet writes:
“The Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the National Intelligence Council’s work on Covid-19 origins complied with all of the Intelligence Community’s analytic standards, including objectivity,” the spokeswoman said.
ut 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.
The DIA Inspector General’s office opened an inquiry in the spring into whether the scientists’ assessment was mishandled or suppressed, people familiar with the matter said. A spokesman for the agency declined to comment on whether this inquiry was continuing, had been completed and what it might have included.
The new report adds fuel to the theory that Anthony Fauci helped cover up the lab leak during the early days of the pandemic to hide his role in creating the virus, which killed tens of millions of people across the globe. Earlier in the year, The Washington Examiner explained how Fauci’s story had begun to unravel.
Former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci has already been caught lying about COVID-19 many times. Now newly released emails from his longtime colleague Dr. David Morens, a senior adviser to the director at the National Institutes of Health, show a broad-based conspiracy, including involvement from disgraced Department of Health and Human Services contractor Dr. Peter Daszak, to cover up the trio’s role in facilitating gain-of-function research at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology.
The 150 emails released by the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic show Morens knowingly and intentionally attempted to conceal evidence embarrassing to himself, Fauci, and Daszak. These efforts included deleting sensitive emails, conducting official business on a private email account, and strategically misspelling keywords to escape the reach of the Freedom of Information Act.
“I learned from our NIH FOIA lady here how to make emails disappear after I am FOIA but before the search starts so I think we’re all safe,” Morens wrote in one email. “Plus I deleted most of those earlier emails after sending them to Gmail.”
The emails also suggest Fauci was knowingly involved in the cover-up, with Morens claiming he could help Fauci avoid FOIA accountability: “I can either send stuff to Tony on his private gmail, or hand it to him.”
The emails also show that Morens previously lied to the committee. Previously, Morens had testified under oath that he did not recall discussing Daszak’s grants from NIAID to the WIV with Fauci. In his testimony Wednesday, Morens admitted that was false. “I certainly told him some things that he asked me to tell him about the situation with Peter [Daszak],” Morens testified.
This isn’t the first time that the public has learned that most evidence pointed toward the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Over the past five years, major media outlets have scolded anyone who claimed that COVID-19 had been created in a lab, and this new investigation only reveals something that most Americans already understand: mainstream outlets have lost their way.
The media called it a racist conspiracy theory strictly because it was Tom Cotton who brought it up.
No other reason, and they won’t go back on it now because that makes him right, and them insane. https://t.co/3mHu17gk7c
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) December 26, 2024
The intelligence community’s internal disagreements highlight the challenges of pinpointing COVID-19’s origins. As more evidence comes to light, the way these findings were handled continues to draw scrutiny. Whether future administrations will revisit these reports and address the lingering uncertainties remains unclear. For now, the debate over the origins of COVID-19 continues to shape global scientific, political, and public discussions.
As the truth continues to come out, only one real pressing question remains.
Will the Fauci pardon come on New Year’s Eve or on January 19? https://t.co/UAmCEEE9kb
— Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) December 26, 2024
Will Fauci get his pardon this month or next?
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