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Reasonpolitics15 days agoUpdated
CIA Whistleblower Claims Agency Suppressed COVID-19 Lab Leak Evidence
A career CIA operations officer told Congress that agency scientists had concluded the coronavirus likely leaked from a Chinese lab but that higher-ups suppressed those findings. The officer said the agency changed its position in 2021 and punished analysts who disagreed. The tes…
New York Postpolitics16 days agoDeveloping
CIA Whistleblower to Testify on Alleged Efforts to Obscure COVID-19 Origins
A two-decade veteran of the intelligence community detailed to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence will allege at a Senate hearing that officials tried to withhold documents and overrode an assessment favoring the lab-leak theory. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said the w…