by Jordon Conradson at The Gateway Pundit
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has issued a new analysis on the origins of the COVID-19 virus, which favors the theory that COVID escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China.
John Ratcliffe, nominated by Trump, confirmed by the Senate, and sworn in this week as CIA Director, released the files.
“One of the things that I’ve talked about a lot is addressing the threat from China on a number of fronts, and that goes back to why a million Americans died and why the Central Intelligence Agency has been sitting on the sidelines for five years in not making an assessment about the origins of COVID. That’s a day-one thing for me,” he told Breitbart earlier in the week.
Since the onset of the global COVID-19 pandemic, government officials and medical institutions have fervently dismissed the lab leak hypothesis, labeling it a “conspiracy theory.”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the World Health Organization (WHO), and Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), have repeatedly downplayed the possibility of a lab leak, insisting instead that the virus was transmitted from animals to humans.
Per New York Times:…
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