By Michael Shellenberger and Alex Gutentag via Public subsatck,
[ZeroHedge] FBI’s entire 25-person Chinese intelligence squad knew of reliable human intelligence that SARS-CoV-2 Covid leaked from a lab..
Over the last several months, Public has reported on a growing body of evidence that the SARS-CoV-2 virus that caused the Covid pandemic escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China. Last year, Public and Racket were the first to report that US government officials had identified that the first patients to become sick with Covid worked at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).
Now, Public has learned from multiple sources that the FBI knew since at least March 2020 that Covid was the result of a lab leak. A Chinese national from Wuhan, working as a confidential human source (CHS) for the FBI, told their handler at the FBI’s Chinese Intelligence Squad. The sources said it was probable that the whole squad of 25 people knew.
"A person working at the Virology Institute lab in Wuhan, China was infected, left the building, and spread the virus outside the lab in Wuhan," the CHS told the FBI, according to a source.
"It didn’t have anything to do with the wet market or the bat soup story they were going with."
The sources asked Public to protect their identities and those of their colleagues. The sources say they are speaking up now out of concern over abuses of power within the FBI. They reached out to Public after seeing our story yesterday about how scientists, who Anthony Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) had in the past funded, sought to insert a furin cleavage site right where it exists on SARS-CoV-2.
The sources added that the FBI trusted the CHS because the person’s information had been corroborated at least three times previously.
"The CHS was from Wuhan, had been vetted, and the person had provided information on three prior occasions that they were able to corroborate as true and reliable."
Another source said the FBI had considered the information "good intel."
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Two sources said that the CIA may have been conflicted in investigating its origins because it didn’t want to compromise investigations of the Wuhan lab that predated the outbreak of Covid-19.
"There was a clear lack of interest in a robust analysis of Chinese military connections to WIV research, connections between Chinese military and civilian research, and connections that could be drawn between US research and WIV activity," the whistleblower said.
Former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe suggested that there could be additional reasons behind the CIA’s lack of disclosure about COVID’s origins.
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Fauci may have also tried to influence the FBI.
Should be WOT and not Opinion but that's what the mods want.
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01/24/2024 00:00 ||
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Two sources said that the CIA may have been conflicted in investigating its origins because it didn’t want to compromise investigations of the Wuhan lab that predated the outbreak of Covid-19.
Translation:
Chinese virologists directly involved at Wuhan were terminating and the Wet Market cover story was still holding up in the media. Other global conflicts and crisis were successfully pushing actual discovery nearer the memory hole.
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"Former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe suggested that there could be additional reasons behind the CIA’s lack of disclosure about COVID’s origins."
Lousy reporting! This demands an explanation which is missing.
(1.) On-going monitoring & collection effort.
(2.) On-going bilateral Gain of Function research effort.
(3.) Reluctance to disclose someone else's collection or research effort.
(4.) Intelligence gap (failure).
#6
Released on purpose. Recall where we were in 2018- 2019. Trump seemed unstoppable. The Dems had nothing, China on the ropes looking at an 8 count... poof. And here we are with jails full of political prisoners, no borders and global war perking over the horizon. This was a choice.
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01/24/2024 9:07 Comments ||
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^Nonsense, they wouldn't release it inside China.
p.s. Far as I can figure, China was the hardest hit.
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"Never waste the opportunity offered by a good crisis" - Niccolo Machiavelli
Posted by: Mullah Richard ||
01/24/2024 10:31 Comments ||
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Nonsense, they wouldn't release it inside China.
Possibly, but then again the CCP has never really taken the well-being of their general population seriously (unless it was the 'Mandarin Class'). You'll also notice that nobody in the top tier seemed to have been infected, unlike the US and most other countries.
I also have come to believe that most of the CCP lock-downs were more for 'show' only.
I do agree that it did hit their economy pretty hard, but not as hard as what was happening to their economy and trade before this, and that was absolutely unacceptable.
Posted by: Mullah Richard ||
01/24/2024 10:41 Comments ||
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nobody in the top tier seemed to have been infected
#11
With a baby boom at the beginning of the Mao Tse Tung period (the Communists encouraged large families at the beginning), followed by the baby bust (Communists encouraged 1-child families), culling some portion of the older cohorts was likely seen as a social good.
It was germ warfare. It was way too convenient for Democrats to think otherwise. They got mail-in ballots that allowed them to swing the presidential election in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Arizona. That's too much of a coincidence for me especially since we have since learned of Fauci's involvement. People in our government were complicit in the attack. They had their plans all ready to execute when the pandemic hit.
Go ahead, call me a conspiracy theorist. I just think that calling it an accident, a leak, is weak to the point of being unbelievable.
And why were they doing that research at Wuhan anyway? Why do you build a gun if you're never going to shoot it?
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
01/24/2024 12:22 Comments ||
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Yeah, and we know the Chinese are waging chemical warfare against us every day with the knowledge and consent of our own government. I'm talking about fentanyl. The precursor chemicals are Made in China, shipped to Mexico, converted into fentanyl and then smuggled across our border that Joe Biden has left wide open for them.
Now think about Joe Biden. His own son has struggled for years with addiction to illegal narcotics and yet he does nothing to stem the flow of narcotics into our country where 100,000 people a year die from overdoses on those narcotics. That's not to mention the people whose lives have been ruined and the suffering of their friends and families.
What kind of a president would do absolutely nothing to stop that? In fact, it appears that he is actually encouraging it.
The man is evil. He is capable of any kind of evil you can imagine.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
01/24/2024 12:30 Comments ||
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It was way too convenient for Democrats to think otherwise.
Disagree. They're simply good at exploiting opportunities. Unlike you know who.
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Like I said, they had their plans all ready to go. Yes, they never let a crisis go to waste. But if need be, they can create a crisis too.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
01/24/2024 12:43 Comments ||
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Trump was going to roll all over Biden in 2020 and Xi Jinping didn't want that to happen any more than the Democrats. It was a joint venture.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
01/24/2024 12:44 Comments ||
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^Well, have it your way. Personally, I do not fear super-genius villains. I fear megalamaniac mediocracies whose principal talent is manipulating the masses.
#22
Nonsense, they wouldn't release it inside China.
They have a billion people. They can afford to lose a million or two. And how do you know they didn't have a vaccine of their own that, unlike Pfizer's, really was safe and effective?
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
01/24/2024 12:57 Comments ||
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I fear megalamaniac mediocracies whose principal talent is manipulating the masses.
Biden is less than mediocre but, with the mainstream media in his pocket, he is good at manipulating the masses.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
01/24/2024 12:59 Comments ||
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Did Xi ever get sick? Any of the Inner Party? Even if they didn't have a vaccine, they were holed up inside the Forbidden City all safe and snug. They knew what was coming and they were ready for it.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
01/24/2024 13:05 Comments ||
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No worries, Abu.
Some folks are only vocal when someone challenges their world view.
Posted by: Mullah Richard ||
01/24/2024 14:51 Comments ||
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/\ Few in Washington were ever reported as "sick." Fewer yet died, except by gunfire.
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HA, yeah, I read about that theory, too! Austin was allegedly with Zhaluzhny, but nobody asks about him.
Remember some months ago there was a US Army general who allegedly died in a private plane crash near Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, but may have really gotten blown up in UKR.
[Bee] WASHINGTON, DC — Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett fielded questions from reporters regarding her controversial vote to remove razor wire from the Texas border and claims it has absolutely nothing to do with her plans to re-landscape her yard this summer.
"My plans to have a nice row of Elm trees planted along the southern fence of my backyard has nothing to do with my vote to allow more gardeners, er, I mean illegal immigrants, into the country," Justice Barrett explained.
The Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 vote against Governor Greg Abbott's efforts to stop the flow of illegal immigrants entering the United States through Texas's southern border. Justice Barrett voted to allow border patrol agents to remove razor wire placed there by Texas officials, a move she said has nothing to do with her search for a landscaping crew that's affordable and will work for cash payments.
"My yard plans have nothing to do with my vote to allow the river of illegal migrants to continue to pour across the border," Justice Barrett said. "Now, if Governor Abbott happens to send a bus of hard-working cheap laborers up to the East Coast and I happen to pick up a few of those laborers in the parking lot of my local Home Depot and they happen to install a nice flagstone path between my deck and backyard veggie garden, so be it."
As of publishing time, Justice Barrett had downloaded the language-learning app Duolingo on her phone and was learning all the ways to say "I want Kentucky Blue Grass planted over there by the rock wall, please," a move she says has nothing to do with her most recent judicial decision.
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Yeah somewhere around 2011-2012, someone in the O administration got to him (probably with some very nasty dirt) and he started backing off. This, of course, led to the infamous Affordable Care Act cave-in (amongst many others).
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[Ynet] We woke up Tuesday morning to one of the hardest events we have known during the Gaza war. Twenty-one soldiers; Our good sons, were killed fighting in Gaza in the most difficult incident since the beginning of the war. It goes without saying that in such an event the public is looking for answers to the breakdown that led to it and how it could have been avoided. But precisely in such difficult times, it is important to separate the truth from all kinds of stories that get mixed in.
Let's start with the essence of the operation: Since October 7 the IDF has been working to establish a buffer zone in the Gaza Strip. Of all the tasks the IDF is doing, this is perhaps the most important and the one that should prevent a situation where the events of the surprise attack by Hamas will be repeated. As part of the activity, the IDF forces are exposing the area of ground and underground terrorist infrastructure along the entire border area.
Monday's activity, for example, was on the first line in front of Kissufim — a community where dozens of terrorists arrived from the same areas in which the IDF was operating. The activity there is difficult, Sisyphean, and requires a redesign of hundreds of meters of the border. Without it, it will not be possible to return the residents of the Gaza border communities home. This is the mission on which the soldiers were killed and there is nothing more valuable and important than it. It is important to say, that the soldiers were killed during a battle, and all indications so far point to the fact that the explosion occurred as a result of Hamas anti-tank fire. This is not a safety issue but a battle with disastrous results.
The first question that arose after the event was why not attack those houses from the air. We will explain: Exposing buildings is a job for the engineers' corps, for D9 bulldozers in the case of low buildings or mines in other cases. The bulldozers were damaged in the war as a result of the destruction of houses, especially when they were operating against high-rises, so the IDF decided to switch some of the demolitions to mines, which are more effective but also more dangerous.
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I apparently am missing something.
Why did the IAF not bomb the building in question?
The article so far seems like a rambling cluster of words not getting to the point of the headline.
I suspect the original article was in another language abd something got lost in translation?
I'll ask again, Why did the IAF not bomb the building in question?
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"Aerial destruction is possible and is used in some places, but it is not always complete. It is very expensive and takes resources from places that need them. If we bomb all the houses in the area from the air to destruction, there will be no weapons left to attack terrorists while the forces are maneuvering, and certainly not in the northern arena. This is true for the Israeli Air Force, but also for any other country."
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The main question here is "What the f@ck 20+ soldiers were doing in a building schedued for demolition?". Most probable explanation, sheltering from rain.
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Again, likely a left-hand not knowing what the right-hand is doing scenario. Setting charges is a hazardous undertaking on a good day. I was invited to observe bomb runs at the Udari Range years ago. I declined. Never regretted it.
A sickening loss of young soldiers. I hope procedures are tightened up.
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Dumb Cement Bombs dropped from 30K-50K feet are quite destructive to structures, especially non-military. Then a nice bulldoze into the sea...
Horrible. They were clearing boobytrap mines from a building, Then Palestinians with RPGs ambushed and got a win. Took out a tank. And scored a lucky shot: RPG hit a mine in the building jews were clearing and the building collapsed on the platoon.
#10
You don't use 20+ people teams to rig explosives.
Story I heard was the jihadis attacked with RPGs while the demolition charges were being set. I've never deliberately blown up a building but...
I'm thinking half a dozen guys to keep watch and the rest split into 2 man teams. The goal is to get done and get gone as quick as possible. Is 20 really that many for a multi-story building?
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[Bee] WASHINGTON, DC — Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett fielded questions from reporters regarding her controversial vote to remove razor wire from the Texas border and claims it has absolutely nothing to do with her plans to re-landscape her yard this summer.
