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2021-05-27 Home Front: Politix
Biden Panics After CNN Reveals He Canceled COVID Origins Investigation, Orders 90-Day Report From US Intel Agencies
[ZeroHedge] And if you can't believe US intel agencies (cough, Russia, Russia, Russia) then who in government can you believe?
Update (1522ET): Less than 24 hours after CNN threw Biden under the bus for canceling a State Department effort launched under Trump to get to the bottom of the origins of COVID-19, the Biden administration has backpedaled - and has ordered the US intelligence community to conduct a 90-day investigation into how the pandemic began.

In a statement via the White House website, the Biden administration claims that officials have been pursuing various possibilities - including "whether it emerged from human contact with an infected animal or from a laboratory accident," it's clear that the administration is in full damage control mode.

"I have now asked the Intelligence Community to redouble their efforts to collect and analyze information that could bring us closer to a definitive conclusion, and to report back to me in 90 days," said Biden in the announcement.

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The Biden administration pulled the plug on a Trump-era State Department investigation into whether COVID-19 originated from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China, according to a Tuesday evening report by CNN.

The effort, led by then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, also sought to determine whether China's biological weapons program may have played a role in the pandemic. According to the report, it was met with internal opposition from officials who thought it was simply a politicized witch hunt to blame China for the virus.

According to three unnamed sources, when Biden was briefed on the investigations' findings in February and March, he pulled the plug - and instead opted to trust the findings of the World Health Organization, which conducted an 'investigation' earlier this year which turned out to be nothing more than political theater, the cast of which included the highly conflicted Peter Daszak, the Fauci-funded virologist who was studying bat viruses at the Wuhan lab.

"The way they did their work was suspicious as hell," said one former State Department official who (we're guessing was rooting for team Schiff during Trump's impeachment).
Posted by Omotle Sholuns7857 2021-05-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [15 views ]  Top

#1 If Joey panicked, then perhaps he's really sane/not senile.
Posted by Clem 2021-05-27 00:01||   2021-05-27 00:01|| Front Page Top

#2 Biden: Intel community torn between 'two likely scenarios' on COVID-19 outbreak source
Posted by Skidmark 2021-05-27 00:39||   2021-05-27 00:39|| Front Page Top

#3 Senate passes bill requiring the Biden administration to declassify intelligence on COVID-19 origins
Posted by Skidmark 2021-05-27 00:41||   2021-05-27 00:41|| Front Page Top

#4 #1 If Joey panicked, then perhaps he's really sane/not senile. Posted by: Clem 2021-05-27 00:01


"Mr. President? Sir? Wake up for just a second, please..."

"ZZZZZzzz(snort)(cough) Don't turn that off, I was watching that. What's going on? Has Trump conceded yet?"

"That was a few months ago, sir. In the meantime, We have a problem regarding the COVID-19 investigation. You should probably panic, sir."

"Panic....panic? Why, that sounds wonderful, rich, fluffy panic with lots of boysenberry syrup and butter -"

(Exasperated sighs)"Oh, dear God. No, Mr. President, panIC, not 'pancakes'."

"Well, if we're not having pancakes, why did you ask me if I wanted any? And where's that nice lady with my Ensure?"

"That's the First Lady, sir, and she thinks we should panic too."

"Well, then it's settled, pancakes for EVERYONE!!! A pancake in every pot, and we'll tax the chickens to pay for it!!! And while we'rezzzzzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ......"

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2021-05-27 06:11||   2021-05-27 06:11|| Front Page Top

#5 'Fake news' no longer: Facebook lifts ban on suggesting COVID-19 was man-made after Biden orders intel agencies to probe whether coronavirus leaked from Wuhan lab
Posted by Skidmark 2021-05-27 06:16||   2021-05-27 06:16|| Front Page Top

#6 Hmmm..seems they remembered that in Washington the quickest way to make sure nothing is revealed is to start an investigation on it.
Posted by Warthog 2021-05-27 10:47||   2021-05-27 10:47|| Front Page Top

#7 I wonder if the Biden Admin has a staff of employees paid to take a bullet for the team when needed. Easy pay until the day, then vilified for a news cycle or two until you eventually write a book or wash up on MSNBC as a contributor.
Posted by rjschwarz 2021-05-27 13:46||   2021-05-27 13:46|| Front Page Top

#8 #4 With Leslie Nielsen as Biden ☺.
Posted by Dron66046 2021-05-27 13:56||   2021-05-27 13:56|| Front Page Top

#9 ^
Sorry Leslie died, the other one is a socialist zombie who still acts as if he is alive, and president.
Posted by Bill Spawn of the Ostrogoths9027 2021-05-27 23:27||   2021-05-27 23:27|| Front Page Top

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