U.S. Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) joined Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) and 18 other senators sent a follow-up letter to the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), William J. Burns, requesting information on a previous request regarding whistleblower allegations disclosed by the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic and House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence related to the CIA’s investigation into the origins of COVID-19.
According to the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic (Select Subcommittee) and House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) a multi-decade, senior-level, current Agency officer has come forward to provide information to the [Select Subcommittee and HPSCI] regarding the Agency’s analysis into the origins of COVID-19. According to the whistleblower, the Agency assigned seven officers to a COVID Discovery Team (Team). The Team consisted of multi-disciplinary and experienced officers with significant scientific expertise. According to the whistleblower, at the end of its review, six of the seven members of the Team believed the intelligence and science were sufficient to make a low confidence assessment that COVID-19 originated from a laboratory in Wuhan, China. The seventh member of the Team, who also happened to be the most senior, was the lone officer to believe COVID-19 originated through zoonosis.
“These allegations raise serious questions about the Agency’s investigation of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
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