CIA Director John Ratcliffe confirmed Sunday that he’s directing the agency to investigate whether COVID-19 was released deliberately by Communist China.
Ratcliffe made the remarks in an interview on Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures when responding to his public release of a recent CIA report concluding the virus behind COVID-19 most likely originated from China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology.
“I had the opportunity on the first day to make public an assessment that actually took place in the Biden administration, so it can’t be accused of being political. And it does assess, the CIA has assessed that the most likely cause of this pandemic that has wrought so much devastation around the world was because of a lab-related incident in Wuhan.”
New: The Biden Admin’s CIA Director kept their report on Covid’s Origins a secret from the public. It only came to light due to the new CIA Director’s call to release it. And Ratcliffe says the CIA will continue to gather intel to determine whether it was an intentional or… pic.twitter.com/stdi9r2yew
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“It was important for the American people to see an institution like the CIA get off the sidelines and be truthful about what our intelligence shows at the same time of protecting us from adversaries like China if they caused or contributed to this.”
Ratcliffe also said the CIA would investigate whether the release of COVID was “intentional or accidental.”
“We’re going to continue to look at- I’ve been on the job a couple of days now, and I’m going to look closely at the intelligence that we’ve gathered,” he said.
“And we’ll get more intelligence as time goes by, and we’ll be transparent with the American people about what that intelligence says.”
Chinese virologist and whistleblower Dr. Li-Meng Yan has for years asserted that COVID-19 was deliberately released by the Chinese Communist Party as part of its little-known Unrestricted Warfare doctrine.
To clarify, COVID-19 virus was intentionally released out of the BSL-3/4 lab for certain purposes. But it got out of control accidentally cos CCP underestimated the high transmissibility. Such unrestricted bioweapon can’t escape accidentally out of the lab and cause such disaster
— Dr. Li-Meng YAN (@DrLiMengYAN1) January 21, 2023
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) said Sunday that regardless of China’s intentions, it must still be held to account for its role in unleashing the virus upon the world with tariffs, sanctions or other punitive measures.
“The important thing now is that we have to make China pay for unleashing this plague on the world,” he told Fox News.
I said from the very beginning that Covid probably came from the Wuhan labs.
— Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton) January 26, 2025
The important thing now is that we have to make China pay for unleashing this plague on the world. pic.twitter.com/FKOf8ZOczb
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