[PJ] There’s a shocking development in the COVID origins saga. A CIA whistleblower is alleging that the agency offered "significant monetary incentives" to a team of agents investigating the origins of COVID-19 to change their final determination that a lab leak was responsible for the pandemic.
The allegations are contained in a letter written to the CIA by House Coronavirus Subcommittee Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner (R-Ohio).
The whistleblower is described as a "multi-decade, senior-level, current Agency officer. He told Congress that the CIA assigned seven officers to a "COVID Discovery team," which consisted of "multi-disciplinary and experienced officers with significant scientific expertise."
"According to the whistleblower, at the end of its review, six of the seven members of the Team believed that intelligence and science were sufficient to make a low confidence assessment that COVID-19 originated from a laboratory in Wuhan, China," Wenstrup and Turner wrote.
"The seventh member of the Team, who also happened to be the most senior, was the one officer to believe COVID-19 originated through zoonosis."
"The whistleblower further contends that to come to the eventual public determination of uncertainty, the other six members were given a significant monetary incentive to change their position," they added. 
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