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Covid-19 most likely emerged from a laboratory in Wuhan, China, the US Congressional Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic has concluded in a 520-page report, following a two-year investigation.

It discovered that the virus possessed a biological characteristic absent in nature, and data indicated that all Covid-19 cases stemmed from a single introduction to humans, reinforcing the ‘lab leak’ theory.

The report claims that the Chinese government, agencies within the US government, and some members of the international scientific community “sought to cover up facts concerning the origins of the pandemic.” ...

According to the report, China’s leading research laboratory for coronaviruses in Wuhan “has a history of conducting gain-of-function research at inadequate biosafety levels.” The document claims that researchers at the lab “were sick with a COVID-like virus in the fall of 2019, months before COVID-19 was discovered at the wet market.” “By nearly all measures of science, if there was evidence of a natural origin it would have already surfaced,” it went on to say. ...

That same year, Dr. Anthony Fauci – the chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden at the time who faced intense criticism for his handling of the pandemic – said the implication that lab research led to the Covid-19 pandemic is “unconscionable” and “molecularly impossible.”

The report by the Select Committee also blasted the response of officials, saying, “members and staff have exposed high-level corruption in America’s public health system, confirmed the most likely origin of the pandemic, held COVID-19 bad actors publicly accountable, fostered bipartisan consensus on consequential pandemic-era issues.”

Trump also delivered what sounded like a threat to certain unnamed parties. He said, “And we hope we don’t have any intervening problems, because things happen. Like out of nowhere came the China virus. Out of nowhere came other things. We hope that won’t happen.”

Congress to Fund New Biolab Construction, Deadly Pathogen Research, Coming Influenza Pandemic, Vaccines: Speaker Johnson’s New 1,500-Page Spending Bill

Follows government’s waiver of oversight over dangerous gain-of-function experiments.

The United States government is looking to bankroll the construction of new biolabs, risky experiments on dangerous pathogens, the coordination of an apparently incoming influenza pandemic, and vaccines in a new spending bill.

Raising significant concerns about biosecurity risks and ethical governance, lawmakers say a vote will be held tonight.

They will have had less than a day to read the more than 1,500-page bill.

Jenner Furst: Secret Chinese Biotech Programs, and the Documentary That Could Put Dr. Fauci in Jail

Why isn’t Tony Fauci in prison? You’ll wonder after you watch “Thank You, Dr. Fauci,” now out on TCN. Jenner Furst made the documentary. Even if you think you know a lot, this is an amazing conversation.

(0:00) Exposing Fauci and the COVID Cover-up
(4:24) The Truth About COVID's Origins
(9:53) Were the 2001 Anthrax Attacks a False Flag?
(22:26) The Real Reason Fauci Pushed for mRNA Vaccines
(30:56) The Pandemic Began Much Earlier Than You Were Told
(41:32) Why COVID Is Different From Any Other Virus
(47:47) The Relationship Between Food and COVID
(50:58) Exposing DARPA's Shadowy “Project DEFUSE”
(1:02:43) Who Got Rich From COVID?
(1:23:18) Donald Trump's Historic Appointments
(1:32:00) Bio Labs in Ukraine

This morning, the Wall Street Journal ran an “Exclusive” headlined “Behind Closed Doors: The Spy World Scientists Who Argued Covid Was a Lab Leak.” The long-form, multimedia-rich story had all the hallmarks of a deep-state limited hangout.

Never forget that even asking the question about covid’s Wuhan laboratory origins was disinformation that could get you canceled off social media and maybe even fired from your job. Heaven help you if you forwarded a lab-leak meme or something.

But today, the Wall Street Journal ran a deep dive supporting the agencies and scientists who believed in the lab leak. The article (gently) criticized the Biden Administration for ignoring the alternative theory. ...

Call me cynical, but I think the deep state expects a stinker of a report from the Inspector General soon, and so we get this anonymously sourced limited hangout.

The article provides an enormous amount of insider detail. FBI microbiologist Richard Bannan waited for a car that never came to take him to a White House briefing. Three Defense Intelligence Agency scientists wrote a classified internal memo that was excluded from the agency’s final report, and were told to stop working with the FBI. We learned about an argument between FBI bioterror scientists and National Intelligence Council agents over including a chart comparing covid to prior animal-to-human pandemics.

How did the Wall Street Journal learn about all these insider details? Why were are all these spooks from many different agencies allowed to talk to reporters? Why now? The Journal never quoted any of the many named agency scientists, not directly. It only generically cited, over and over, unnamed “people familiar with the matter.”

One cannot help but suspect that, with a new Trump Administration poised to take control of the intelligence agencies, especially the FBI, up to several levels deep, and with an IG report poised to appear, some people in those agencies may have concluded it was time to start the damage control.

Why is this dusty old argument important? If the Trump Administration formally concludes what is now painfully obvious, that the most destructive virus in human history negligently emerged from a Chinese lab, then the next natural question will be who is responsible? At that point, the Chinese will surely start pointing their fingers, too, and upon whom will all those fingers of blame ultimately land?