Biden administration officials suppressed information that was obtained by intelligence agencies that supported the Covid-19 “lab-leak” theory, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal. The report showed that there is evidence of a cover-up as to the origins of the virus and that the spike protein that enables the Covid virus to infiltrate cells was lab made.
A Wall Street Journal investigation found that Jason Bannan, a Ph.D.in microbiology, was recruited by the FBI after the 9/11 attacks in order to bring expertise on topics such as biological and chemical weapons. He was told by superiors that he would be brought in to brief President Joe Biden when the Covid-19 virus was rampant in the US in 2021.
However, he was never summoned to join the briefings with Biden. Out of the multiple agencies that investigated the origin of the pandemic, the FBI was the only agency to determine that there was a “moderate confidence” that it came from a lab. The four other departments said that the pandemic had an animal origin, but each had “low confidence” in their findings, per the outlet.
Biden was briefed by National Intelligence Director Avril Haines in August 2021 after a 90-day review that the White House had ordered to investigate the origins of the virus starting in May that year. However, the FBI was not asked to attend the meeting. The other four agencies attended and told the president that the pandemic had come from an animal.
“Being the only agency that assessed that a laboratory origin was more likely, and the agency that expressed the highest level of confidence in its analysis of the source of the pandemic, we anticipated the FBI would be asked to attend the briefing,” Bannan said in a recorded interview. “I find it surprising that the White House didn’t ask.”
The Director of National Intelligence (DIA) told the outlet that it was no standard practice to invite representatives from each agency and that each view on the pandemic was represented in the meeting Biden.
“The Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the National Intelligence Council’s work on Covid-19 origins complied with all of the Intelligence Community’s analytic standards, including objectivity,” a spokesperson said.
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