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Biden Officials Shut Down State Department Investigation Into Wuhan Lab Leak Theory
2021-05-27
[REDSTATE] Yesterday, Peter Doocy asked Jen Psaki
...a valley girl who woke up one morning and found she was spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of State under Obama...
why President Joe Biden
...... 46th president of the U.S. I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass.......
wasn’t pressing for more information on the Wuhan lab leak theory. "We have repeatedly called for the WHO to support an expert-driven evaluation of the pandemic’s origins," Psaki replied. That answer was very troubling, I observed in our story on Psaki’s response. Is there an American investigation still ongoing into the question from the Biden team, I asked? Because it doesn’t sound like it, from what Psaki was saying — and because we surely can’t trust anything that WHO concludes on the matter, given their prior actions.

Turns out that was a good question to ask. Because now there are reports that Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created ... by the — you know — you know, the thing...
actually shut down an investigation into that very question.

There’s a new CNN
...formerly the Cable News Network, now who knows what it might stand for...
story out that breaks that bombshell news. But it looks like someone knew this information would be leaking out soon and this is part of the effort to soft-pedal the termination of the investigation.

The inquiry was launched in the State Department last fall under President Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
to look into the origin of the pandemic and the leak theory. But the Biden folks cut the leak inquiry this spring. Here comes the spin as to the why.

But the inquiry quickly became mired in internal discord amid concerns that it was part of a broader politicized effort by the Trump administration to blame China and cherry-pick facts to prove a theory.

The decision to terminate the inquiry, which was run primarily out of the State Department’s arms control and verification bureau, was made after Biden officials were briefed on the team’s draft findings in February and March of this year, a State Department spokesperson said. Questions were raised about the legitimacy of the findings and the project was deemed to be an ineffective use of resources, explained a source familiar with the decision.

Sources involved in the Trump-era inquiry rejected criticisms over the quality of their work and told CNN their objective had been to examine scientific research and information from the US intelligence community which backed the lab leak theory and shone more light on how it could have emerged in the lab.

Posted by:Fred

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