Secretary of Defense Mark Esper is interviewed on"This Week.", changing the patterns of life and business and posing a threat to the population, according to four sources briefed on the secret reporting.pandemic were detailed in a November intelligence report by the military's National Center for Medical Intelligence , according to two officials familiar with the document’s contents.
"The timeline of the intel side of this may be further back than we’re discussing," the source said of preliminary reports from Wuhan."But this was definitely being briefed beginning at the end of November as something the military needed to take a posture on." Ambulance medical staff arrive at Wuhan Red Cross Hospital with an elderly woman, who recovered from COVID-19, at Wuhan in China's central Hubei province, March 30, 2020.The NCMI report was made available widely to people authorized to access intelligence community alerts. Following the report’s release, other intelligence community bulletins began circulating through confidential channels across the government around Thanksgiving, the sources said.
Asked about the November warning last Sunday on ABC’s"This Week," Defense Secretary Mark Esper told Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos,"I can't recall, George. But we have many people who watch this closely. We have the premier infectious disease research institute in America, within the United States Army. So, our people who work these issues directly watch this all the time.
For his part, President Donald Trump has alternated between taking credit for early action and claiming that the coronavirus was a surprise to him and everyone else. He has repeatedly touted his Jan. 31 decision to restrict air travel with China, but at the same time, he spent weeks telling the public and top administration officials that there was nothing for Americans to fear.
Why did the United States issue a warning before China found the virus?
Bullshit
Ooooooo That didn't age well. ABC_Fiction_News
The report claim it 'out-of-control disease would pose a serious threat to U.S. forces in Asia'. What was WHO doing at this time if intelligence were true. Also, US Intell was wrong about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. How about Congress they get same briefings.
Chumpster and company stepped on their dicks as usual.
Asked on January 22 “Are there worries about a pandemic at this point?' trump responds “No. Not at all.” ...despite being warned by U.S. intelligence in November!
Not a hoax?
RT At that point Trump wasn't even prepared to call it a HOAX. He was golfing! WhiteHouse
Thanks to the failure of this potus and his acolyte our governor in Florida to heed these reports, specifically my county Broward, has been doomed to become an pandemic epicenter. Floridacoronavirus Florida COVID19 coronavirus FLDems TrumpGenocide pandemic
China gov found the virus in Dec, U.S. intelligent warned in Nov, known it as 'novel' 'coronavirus' 'crisis', that's fun.
But isn’t the point of these intelligence reports to give the worst case scenerio? How many other intelligence reports have given worst case scenarios that didn’t come to fruition? Thousands, I imagine.
Trump was to busy firing the head of intelligence to notice. A complete failure on all sides.
clintonyates Trumpandemic. Elect stupid people, get stupid results...
The report claim it 'out-of-control disease would pose a serious threat to U.S. forces in Asia'. What was WHO doing at this time if intelligence were true. Also, US Intell was wrong about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. How about Congress they get same briefings.
Knowing about a spreadable virus in one region of the world, doesn't mean anyone knew that it was going to become a pandemic.
DrTedros shouldn't just resign, he needs to go to international court for crimes against humanity. For covering up Corona virus that China started. The blood of thousands are on his hands and WHO. No more funding and dispand the organization
LIKE THE MEDIA AND THEY WERE WRONG
'...the result of analysis of wire and computer intercepts, coupled with satellite images... That's something CIA does. The National Center for Medical Intel just monitors and assesses global health for SECDEF. If SECDEF knew about this, they didn't report it to the nation?
This article clearly shows how incompetent our government has been since the very beginning of the coronavirus crisis.
I am an overweight bald middle age guy that enjoys watching the news and I saw this coming. Our leaders were to busy tweeting insults or investigating each other to listen to the experts. Now we are even further in debt and teetering on the verge of a massive recession. 😒
Ridiculous. This is what WHO was saying in January: Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in Wuhan, China
But thanks to assurances from China and the WHO, such warnings were ignored. Who’s to blame? China and the incompetent, China-controlled WHO.
And yet, they let things drag on, doing nothing to stop it, contain it, test people etc for all these months
Well, We were kind of busy...impeachment, and all.
TrumpKnew TrumpLiesAmericansDie
OK. If there had been a COMPLETE travel ban in early January, can you imagine the uproar that would have caused? That's a big part of what needed to happen though.
UN: Almost 70 million refugees at risk of being infected SaveRefugees HumanRights
PurlLeslie trump hosted erdogan on november 13, 2019 after heavy breathing fits, trump was unexpectantly taken to walter reed on november 17th i aint one to gossip, so you aint heard that from me--
KeithOlbermann Perhaps CoronavirusOutbreak is the “Christmas Surprise” promised by NOKO delivered via China.
And everyone was focused on Impeachment, and the left was criticizing any attempts to put a temporary travel ban between US and China. What's you're point?
And yet, the CDC didn't.
Yet congress felt the need to Impeach the President, knowing full well the divide it would create in The country. Wasn’t the President called a racist by Democrats when he stopped people from China from bringing it here it’s almost like Democrats wanted it to come here.
Republicans chose to put incompetence in office and look what’s happening. Thanks!
This is an interesting report from an unknown source. According to timeline of the virus posted by numerous news organization, the first 2 cases of this virus were in the first week of December in Wuhan. If someone knew about in November, it would have helped to tell China.
alywalansky That's not really fair. Absentee voting has always been done by mail. This is what the President is referring to. Mail-in voting, by default would be different. In NYC, the gov't is so inept & unprepared, absentee voting by mail was halted. You had to go in person.
January 14th. 🖕🏻
Yet the intelligence committee was SO FOCUSED on doing what? Looking at the WuFlu? NO, trying to impeach the President! GFY ABC!
People were dying from covid19 before the Navarro memo & presented with Coronavirus symptoms before the Navarro memo.The smart guy memo was a coverup to hide feds failure to act/awareness of existence of deadly disease before leak to the public. Virus became more deadly over time
How enlightened does trump want people to think he is? He “didn’t see the Navarro memo” but “instinctively” knew to restrict China from entering the U.S. Touting Peter as “a smart guy” in comparison to himself & media as lacking intelligence. His hand gestures show bigger lies!
Trump has a lot of people brainwashed. Fanatical drones all over the place.
Yep, that's Trump...hopping right on it, being proactive. NOT! Trump's a murderer, through his inaction, denial, sowing of doubt in medical experts, refusing 2follow CDC guidelines 4mitigating the virus &playing politically w/lifesaving equipment. He's a murderer, plain &simple.
It was around then. Then everyone got together for the holidays and that is how to start a pandemic!!! Perfect storm
GioBenitez interesting...this is on him! sunny TheView JoyVBehar WhoopiGoldberg
Intelligence = oxymoron
Yep, should have cancelled the Super Bowl.
“ sources”. All you need to know
November ?!?!?! NOVEMBER!!!!!! 😮😦😯😲😠😡
Virus Attack -Jan Theuninck, 2014
Let ’s say that the West is a dog. The governance is so bad. Do you eat shit all day?
JoshMargolin
原來美國11月份就知道新冠病毒了,中國武漢也是在12月初才知道新冠病毒, 原來美國知道的時間要比中國知道的時間要早。那麼美國是怎麼知道武漢會爆發新冠病毒的?原來幕後黑手是美國,我的天,裡面太黑暗了!就是是誰製造了這場災難!
Let's guess anonymous sources
And what where all the politicians doing in Nov. Dec. and Jan?…….. impeach … impeach ….. impeach!
Armanhammer76 Trump fucked the whole world over by not disclosing this report and ignoring it!
China LIED ABOUT THIS FOR MONTHS! Even the corrupt WHO said on Jan 16th “human to human transmission hasn’t been proven.“ but a travel was stopped regardless 😒
😮😮😮😮
In Oct. 2019, The Trump administration shuttered the USAID program known as PREDICT. The initiative was launched in 2009 and designed to improve the “detection and discovery of zoonotic viruses with pandemic potential.”
More unnamed sources..... 🙄
And the democrats were distracting Trump with the impeachment.
If you could stop making Asians the face of this disease you’d help defuse the rise in hate crimes against Asians and Asian Americans. Please take this in consideration.
Told y'all so
Daily briefings are so last administration— to bland:
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