What a difference an inauguration makes!This week, President Donald Trump’s pick for the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency was sworn in.Director John Ratcliffe went straight to work on behalf of the American people by releasing a new position on the origins of Covid-19.The CIA now has shifted its assessment regarding the origins of covid, now favoring the lab leak theory as the most likely explanation for the pandemic’s start. On Saturday, the agency released a new evaluation indicating a preference for the laboratory leak hypothesis over the natural origin theory, reversing the position it has held sense the first cases of covid in this country were reported.
The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory, according to an assessment released Saturday that points the finger at China — even while acknowledging that the spy agency has “low confidence” in its own conclusion.The finding is not the result of any new intelligence, and the report was completed at the behest of the Biden administration and former CIA Director William Burns. It was declassified and released Saturday on the orders of President Trump’s pick to lead the agency, John Ratcliffe, who was sworn in Thursday as director.The nuanced finding suggests the agency believes the totality of evidence makes a lab origin more likely than a natural origin. But the agency’s assessment assigns a low degree of confidence to this conclusion, suggesting the evidence is deficient, inconclusive or contradictory.
I will simply note the “low degree of confidence” is simply the organization’s way to cover its posterior, as the lab leak origin has always been the most reasonable and most likely origin of the novel coronavirus…as most Legal Insurrection readers will already know.
One month before the country locked-down for “two weeks to stop the spread”, I reported what most U.S. media ignored or marginalized, how Chinese university researchers believe virus may originate from government laboratory (February 16, 2020):
While most early reports indicated a market close to Wuhan was the source of the original COVID-19 infections, there was skepticism about this theory.
Sen. Tom Cotton suggested that Chinese officials misled the public on the origins of the novel coronavirus that has killed at least 362 people and infected more than 17,400 others, saying it may have originated in a “superlaboratory.” ….
If the market was not the source of the pathogen, what was? Researchers at the Beijing-sponsored South China University of Technology now conclude that the coronavirus probably originated from a laboratory in Wuhan….
The full report is here, including this conclusion:
In summary, somebody was entangled with the evolution of 2019-nCoV coronavirus. In addition to origins of natural recombination and intermediate host, the killer coronavirus probably originated from a laboratory in Wuhan. Safety level may need to be reinforced in high risk biohazardous laboratories. Regulations may be taken to relocate these laboratories far away from city center and other densely populated places.
If you read Legal Insurrection, you would have known about this Chinese university study. (Yes, we archived it, so the link to the report still works.)
I later also reported how China Destroyed Evidence of Wuhan Coronavirus in December (March 20, 2020).
Per “Occam’s Razor”: The simplest answer is usually the most correct. Which is easier to believe: Chinese researchers, using unsafe laboratory practices in a facility that had waste maintenance problems was the epicenter, or someone failed to cook the pangolin long enough in a Wuhan kitchen?
The only question is was this leak accidental (which I believe it was), or something more nefarious. And while we may never know the sequence of events leading to the first cases of covid, perhaps the CIA under Ratcliffe can focus on preventing another lab-created virus from harming the American people again rather that controlling social media from concerned Americans.
My February 2020 assessment was continuously supported by other findings, especially a tell-tale genetic signature that is indicative of genetic splicing-and-dicing.
As Professor Jacobson noted in his tweet, our highly accurate coverage at Legal Insurrection was suppressed in social media at every turn. Still, we persisted.
Now, like DEI, the tide has turned and we have been proven correct in our assessment.
Interestingly, Trump is now planning an executive order prohibiting the type of “gain of function” research that likely created covid in the first place.
The Trump administration is preparing an executive order that would halt federal funding, at least temporarily, for a risky and controversial kind of research into viruses that makes the pathogens more dangerous or contagious.The goal of the order would be to stop scientists with U.S. funding from conducting “gain-of-function” research on viruses that could endanger human health, people familiar with the plans said.
This declaration would align with his other order, putting a pause on communication, travel, and grants on the agencies dealing with health — the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control, and the National Institutes of Health. The free-wheeling, rule-making bureaucracies filled with “experts” are going to be reined-in.
The CIA’s reversal is another sign that, in the words of Watts Up with That moderator Charles Rotter, “Science is being rescued—from itself“.
Meanwhile, I am going to add more coins into my jar.
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