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2021-05-10 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Classified State Dept. Docs Could Connect Coronavirus to Chinese Lab, House Republicans Say

[Free Beacon] Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee are calling on Secretary of State Antony Blinken to declassify official documents that could show whether the coronavirus originated in a Chinese lab.

Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R., Wash.), the top Republican on the committee, submitted a letter with two other GOP committee members to Blinken on Thursday. The lawmakers seek records about a State Department assessment that the Chinese military worked on "secret projects" at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a lab located near where the first cases of coronavirus emerged in late 2019.

The debate over the origins of the coronavirus has proved a hot-button geopolitical issue. Chinese authorities insist that the virus spread to humans naturally from an animal species, a claim the World Health Organization endorsed in March. But a growing number of scientists, journalists, and government officials have questioned China’s claim, citing a lack of transparency from Chinese officials regarding the origins of the virus.

The State Department released a fact sheet on Jan. 15 that said the Wuhan lab has conducted classified experiments on behalf of the Chinese military since at least 2017. Some of those experiments involved animals. The WHO said in March that it is highly unlikely the virus originated from a lab leak.

But Chinese authorities refused to grant WHO investigators full access to data about early cases of the virus. Peter Daszak, an American scientist on the WHO team, told 60 Minutes that Chinese government officials oversaw all of their interviews with scientists from the Wuhan lab.

The Biden administration has also cast doubt on China’s claims and called on Beijing to cooperate with outside investigators.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-05-10 06:47|| || Front Page|| [13 views ] Top
File under: Commies

#1 The origins of COVID, the Biden laptop, the Clinton home brew servers, the murder of Seth Rich, the bridge to nowhere Robert Mueller probe, the death of Jeffrey Epstein, the Durham indictments, the 6 January White House "insurrection" and the shooting death of Ashli Babbitt, the Dominion election, all very, very strange. All headed down the memory hole.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-05-10 06:59|| 2021-05-10 06:59|| Front Page Top

#2 Will never happen. Would prove Trump was right about something. The whole "it didn't come from a lab and we'll censor you for disagreement" started because they couldn't stand that Trump be right.

Posted by Knuckles Slererong5344 2021-05-10 07:16|| 2021-05-10 07:16|| Front Page Top

#3 ^ And protecting their CCP Masters

Posted by Frank G 2021-05-10 07:30|| 2021-05-10 07:30|| Front Page Top

#4 Ignore this article and contents at your own peril, for the ChiComs the last two years were only a "practice run".

Posted by Fat Bob Squank3108 2021-05-10 11:04|| 2021-05-10 11:04|| Front Page Top

#5 #1 And those are just what I think Rumsfeld would call the "known unknowns".

Posted by Matt 2021-05-10 13:42|| 2021-05-10 13:42|| Front Page Top

#6 Sam Faddis on CIA's Bill Burns: The Manchurian Director, controlled and owned by Xi

Posted by Guillibaldo Elmert6225 2021-05-10 17:41|| 2021-05-10 17:41|| Front Page Top

#7 /\ Thanks GE.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-05-10 17:51|| 2021-05-10 17:51|| Front Page Top

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