Who decided the US intelligence community would suppress key COVID-origin research?
News that top US intelligence officials in 2021 suppressed research pointing to a Chinese lab leak as COVID’s origin raises two key questions: Exactly who, and why?
That is, who made the call to keep Defense Department and FBI input out of the August 2021 briefing to President Biden on the issue, and out of the resulting official federal finding that COVID most likely arose naturally?
And, indeed, to also block Sen. Charles Grassley’s requests for the Defense research?
We know that Dr. Anthony Fauci and his public-health cronies had fought from the start to discredit all lab-leak talk.
Their motive is obvious enough: Since they’d funded related (at least) research at that Wuhan lab, they feared a backlash — against them personally, and/or against such research and its funding.
But why would the US intelligence community cover for Beijing, which would clearly bear the chief blame for cooking up a plague and then unleashing it on an unsuspecting world?
The most likely explanation is that someone decided that the rest of the world would also blame the US government as a whole, maybe even more than it did China’s rulers — so it was best to cover the whole thing up.
It might have been within President Biden’s legitimate powers to make that call, but no one else’s.
Not the mysterious coterie of White House aides who’ve made so many important decisions under this enfeebled prez, nor Avril Haines, the director of National Intelligence who led the review that produced the deceptive “consensus” finding, nor any other intel big.
The purpose of every US intelligence agency is provide the best possible information up the chain of command, so the president and his chosen representatives can make the best possible decisions.
Anyone who instead controls (distorts!) that information in order to influence those decisions is usurping power, betraying his or her duty and the entire nation.
Congress, along with President-elect Trump’s intel team, clearly needs to get to the bottom of this. It’s not just that heads must roll, but that the rot must be excised from every agency that aims to secretly choose the nation’s course.
An “intelligence community” that can’t be trusted to tell the truth is worse than having no intel agencies at all.
