SAN ANSELMO, CALIFORNIA - MARCH 10: In this photo illustration, a positive Covid home test is shown on March 10, 2025 in San Anselmo, California. The federal government suspended the free at-home Covid test distribution program on March 9th, five years after the Covid pandemic began. (Photo Illustration by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON (TNND) — For years, the so-called lab leak hypothesis was labeled by top public health officials as a conspiracy theory or at least a fringe idea.
But a senior officer inside the Central Intelligence Agency, subpoenaed by the Senate Homeland Security committee, said it was always the prevailing theory in the intelligence community, but many of the officers' reports and analyses were buried or even rewritten.
"Intelligence community leaders and senior analysts downplayed the possibility that the COVID pandemic originated as a result of a lab incident," said James Erdman III.
For those analysts who, he said, followed the science and voiced their support of the lab leak theory, he said, "CIA managers retaliated against them for their refusal to agree with management’s middle-of-the-night anonymous rewrite of the analysis, which changed the assessment to a non-call judgment."
He says they instead pushed the natural origins or Zoonotic theory, suggesting the Virus started in an animal, possibly in a seafood market, detailed in this now infamous research paper, “The Proximal Origin of Sars CoV-2,” in which the authors also stated...
Renowned human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, has criticised President Bola Tinubu for relying on claims by United States President Donald Trump regarding the reported killing of senior Islamic ...