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US intel chief says spy agencies still do not know 'where, when or how' Covid-19 was initially transmitted

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4/14/21
US intelligence agencies still do not know "exactly where, when or how Covid-19 virus was transmitted initially" in China but remain focused on two primary theories, that "it emerged naturally from human contact with infected animals or it was a laboratory accident," the nation's top spy told Senate lawmakers on Wednesday. That admission from Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines came during the worldwide threats hearing. Her testimony is consistent with an intelligence community statement from almost a year ago that said it has not determined "whether the outbreak began through contact with infected animals or if it was the result of an accident at a laboratory in Wuhan." That statement also said definitively the virus "was not man-made or genetically modified." A source familiar with the intelligence told CNN late last month that the intelligence community is not currently leaning one way or the other regarding the two theories. "We will probably never know the truth, because even the Chinese don't know the truth, and it will be difficult for US intelligence to figure it out if the Chinese never do," the source said. "The Chinese have NO interest in learning the truth, so it's hard to spy on them and find out what the truth is."


Yet somehow Trump and his cult 'know' that COVID is a Chinese biological weapon.

Director Haines testified that the Chinese don't know and the origin of COVID will probably never be known with any certainty.
 
Intelligence community actively investigating Wuhan lab as possible COVID-19 origin
CIA Director William Burns and NSA Director Gen. Paul Nakasone also weighed in Wednesday on the COVID-19 origins controversy.

“I agree with everything Avril said,” Burns said. “The one thing that's clear to us and to our analysts is that the Chinese leadership has not been fully forthcoming or fully transparent in working with the WHO or in providing the kind of original complete data that would help answer those questions. We're doing everything we can using all the sources available to all of us on this panel to try to get to the bottom of it.”
Rubio, the vice chairman of the committee, said an accidental lab escape was "plausible" and pointed to some reasons why he thought so, including that “researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology have demonstrated from their publication record that they were skilled at techniques in which they genetically modified bat coronaviruses,” as well as that viruses such as SARS have escaped from Chinese labs in the past and that U.S. diplomats warned about subpar biosafety standards at the Wuhan lab in 2018.
 
Yet somehow Trump and his cult 'know' that COVID is a Chinese biological weapon.

Director Haines testified that the Chinese don't know and the origin of COVID will probably never be known with any certainty.

Your hatred for Trump is so strong that you're not even willing to learn the truth about COVID's origins.

Your support for the communist Chinese gov't is puzzling.
 
Your hatred for Trump is so strong that you're not even willing to learn the truth about COVID's origins.

Your support for the communist Chinese gov't is puzzling.
What do you think the 'truth' is and how did you reach your conclusion?
 
Your hatred for Trump is so strong that you're not even willing to learn the truth about COVID's origins.

Your support for the communist Chinese gov't is puzzling.
If Rogue hated Trump then he would say it was man made

 




Yet somehow Trump and his cult 'know' that COVID is a Chinese biological weapon.

Director Haines testified that the Chinese don't know and the origin of COVID will probably never be known with any certainty.
Ummmmmmmmmmmm, they have said themselves that they cannot rule out the Chinese lab thing. You attack Trump for that but don't attack Biden's intelligence for the same thing.
 
What do you think the 'truth' is

I think the 'truth' is that, "spy agencies still do not know 'where, when or how' Covid-19 was initially transmitted"

and how did you reach your conclusion?

I came to my conclusion shortly after I read the article.
 
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