“As we do in all crises, the Community’s experts respond by surging resources and producing critical intelligence on issues vital to U.S. national security,” the statement reads. “The IC will continue to rigorously examine emerging information and intelligence to determine whether the outbreak began through contact with infected animals or if it was the result of an accident at a laboratory in Wuhan.
Current and former national security officials said they were surprised by the release, and suggested it could be a sign that the intelligence community feels it is being pulled into a political battle. The administration has been pressuring analysts, particularly at the CIA, to search for evidence that the virus came from a lab and that the World Health Organization helped China cover it up, according to a person briefed on the discussions.
ODNI’s statement does not rule out that possibility — but it emphasizes the fundamental role of the spy agencies: to collect and analyze information, not to search for a particular conclusion. There is currently no evidence to support the theory that it came from a lab, said people briefed on the intelligence, but there is also no intelligence that would allow the agencies to explicitly rule out the possibility.
“This pattern of politicization is particularly concerning now,” they wrote, “as the country confronts the coronavirus pandemic. “The answers to key intelligence questions—Did the coronavirus emerge from nature or escape from a Chinese lab? To what extent did the Chinese government misrepresent the scope and scale of the epidemic?—will have profound implications for the future of U.S. national security policy, especially concerning China. We know Trump’s preferred answers to those questions. What we don’t know is whether the career analysts in U.S.
Too bad orange tabby doesn't read Intel briefs
More deflection for the incompetent Administration! 😫
To search probably they don't need to go far
‘Unusual”
Because the US intelligence (or any country's intelligence community for that matter) is so trustworthy 🙄 I literally trust my cats more.
B.💩💩S**t! No Animal virus. Could ever become this strong unless it was Tampered with in a Lab!
Actually, the aliens that the US government finally acknowledged decided they had enough of watching us destroy the environment and each other, so they sprayed us with a lil' equalizer.
It’s GOP’s inability to manage the pandemic with a sliver of competency that has me terrified, not masks. TrumpMeltdown horrorific example
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