by Jerry Dunleavy at Just the News
The multi-hundred-billion dollar defense bill which funds the U.S. military is now written to prod the U.S. intelligence community into sharing what it knows about COVID-19’s likely emergence from a Chinese government lab in Wuhan, once called a conspiracy theory by politicians and legacy media.
The National Defense Authorization Act calls for “declassification” and “transparency” related to the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, requiring the Trump Administration’s spy agencies to release its intelligence related to the Wuhan lab that the coronavirus is suspected of being released from in 2019.
The text of the yearly NDAA largely focused on funding the U.S. military and clocks in at nearly 3,100 pages. It includes a section calling upon Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard to work with the heads of all eighteen U.S. spy elements to “perform a declassification review of intelligence” related to “the origins of Coronavirus Disease 2019,” and related to “efforts by government officials of entities of the People’s Republic of China” to cover up the origins of the pandemic.
“DNI Gabbard remains committed to declassifying COVID-19 information and looks forward to continued work with Congress to share the truth about pandemic-era failures with the American people,” a spokesperson for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) told Just the News.
Prominent scientists and media outlets repeatedly claimed that the virus came from a “wet market.” The White House says that “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2” publication — which was used repeatedly by public health officials and the media to discredit the lab leak theory — was prompted by Dr. Fauci to push the preferred narrative that COVID-19 originated in nature. The Los Angeles Times went as far to say “The COVID lab leak claim isn’t just an attack on science, but a threat to public health.”
A half dozen years after the start of a global pandemic,…
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