A whistleblower has testified to House Republicans that the CIA offered to bribe its COVID team to bury their findings that the coronavirus began in the Chinese Wuhan lab.
According to the whistleblower, six out of seven members on the COVID team found that it did originate in the Wuhan lab, with the senior member being the lone objection.
Here’s more via New York Post:
The Central Intelligence Agency offered to pay off analysts in order to bury their findings that COVID-19 most likely leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China, new whistleblower testimony to Congress alleges.
A senior-level CIA officer told House committee leaders that his agency tried to pay off six analysts who found SARS-CoV-2 likely originated in a Wuhan lab if they changed their position and said the virus jumped from animals to humans, according to a letter sent Tuesday to CIA Director William Burns.
Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) and Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Mike Turner (R-Ohio) requested all documents, communications and pay info from the CIA’s COVID Discovery Team by Sept. 26.
“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 House panel chairmen wrote.
“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.”
“The whistleblower further contends that to come to the eventual public determination of uncertainty, the other six members were given a significant monetary incentive to change their position,” they said, noting that the analysts were “experienced officers with significant scientific expertise.”
Wenstrup and Turner also asked for documents and communications between the CIA and other federal agencies, including the State Department, the FBI, the Department of Health and Human Services and the Energy Department.
The Post doesn’t say if the members agreed to change their conclusions, but I think that is likely. Either that or this is the same COVID origins probe that Biden shut down. Either way, it’s outrageous that they’d be pushing so damn hard for the ‘uncertainty’ narrative to the point of bribery, all because Trump suggested it came from the Wuhan lab.