Muhammad Jamal wrote
Friday, March 10, 2023 11:18 PM
On Friday, the US House of Representatives unanimously approved a bill aimed at declassifying intelligence information regarding possible links between “Covid-19” and a Chinese laboratory suspected of leaking the Corona virus, according to Sky News.
And last week, the Senate approved a request from Director of National Intelligence Avril Haynes to declassify documents related to this matter, which means that the bill has no choice but to send it to the White House for President Joe Biden to put his signature on it.
The 2019 Covid outbreak began in the eastern Chinese city of Wuhan, causing the death of regarding seven million people worldwide so far, according to official statistics, including more than one million in the United States.
But US health officials and intelligence agencies remain divided over the origin of the virus and whether it was transmitted to humans from an infected animal or leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
The US Department of Energy’s conclusion that the virus may have been released as a result of a laboratory accident is consistent with the FBI’s assessments and inconsistent with the conclusions of other agencies.
Robert Redfield, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, defended the leakage theory before the Senate on Wednesday, while the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the National Institutes of Health favored the hypothesis that the virus was transmitted from an infected animal.
“There is broad consensus in the intelligence community that the outbreak was not the result of a biological weapon or genetic engineering. But there is no consensus on whether or not it was a lab leak,” Hynes added.
And when the Senate version of the bill to declassify COVID documents was introduced in February, co-drfollowing Josh Hawley said someone who questioned whether Covid had originated in a lab “was silenced and called a conspiracy theorist.”
“Now it turns out that these wise skeptics are right. The American people deserve to know the truth,” Hawley added.
