Is The Non-conclusive Intelligence Report On The Origins Of The Coronavirus A Result Of China's Threat To Retaliate?
Aug 26, 2021 CCP, Origins, Richard Muller, Threat, Virus
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Back in May, after coming under considerable pressure for canceling a Trump ordered State Department investigation into the origins of COVID-19, President Biden ordered the US intelligence community to conduct a 90-day investigation into the viruses origins. Though the report still remains classified at this time, anonymous officials leaked to the Washington Post that the results are inconclusive.
It is worth noting that Fu Cong, director-general of China's Foreign Ministry's Arms Control Department recently stated that they "…do not accept baseless and unfounded accusations that are politically motivated. And if they want to baselessly accuse China, so they better be prepared to accept the counterattack from China." Does that sound like a threat?
We will be joined today by Richard Muller, Professor Emeritus of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, who recently testified before the House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Select Coronavirus Crisis hearing, stating that "We have a whistleblower, the virus itself." He will explain "five compelling sets of scientific evidence that allow us to reach this very strong conclusion that, yes, it was a laboratory leak". Which begs the question, "Why is the Biden administration avoiding this conclusion?"
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Richard A. Muller received his A. B. degree from Columbia University, and his Ph.D. at Berkeley working under Luis Alvarez. He has been on the faculty at Berkeley since 1978. He is a fellow of the APS and of the AAAS, and his awards include the Texas Instruments Founders Prize, the NSF Alan T. Waterman Award, and a MacArthur Foundation Prize Fellowship.
https://physics.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/richard-muller
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"In my mind, there are five compelling sets of scientific evidence that allow us to reach this very strong conclusion that, yes, it was a laboratory leak," Muller said. Dr. Steven Quay, the first scientist to testify, came to the same conclusion that COVID-19 has a laboratory origin, based on "six undisputed facts that support this hypothesis."https://www.organicconsumers.org/news/expert-scientists-testify-virus-origin
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"We will continue to cooperate with international organizations like the WHO in their research and in their search for the origins," said Fu Cong, director-general of the Foreign Ministry's Arms Control Department. "But we do not accept baseless and unfounded accusations that are politically motivated. And if they want to baselessly accuse China, so they better be prepared to accept the counterattack from China."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-25/china-warns-of-retaliation-ahead-of-u-s-report-on-virus-origins
Biden receives inconclusive intelligence report on covid origins
The assessment is the result of a 90-day sprint after Biden tasked his intelligence agencies in May to produce a report "that could bring us closer to a definitive conclusion" on the origins of a virus that has killed more than 4 million people globally and wrecked national economies. But despite analyzing a raft of existing intelligence and searching for new clues, intelligence officials fell short of a consensus, said the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the report is not yet public.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/biden-receives-inconclusive-intelligence-report-on-covid-origins/ar-AANHRNz
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"The officials who spoke with the Washington Post said the intelligence community will seek to declassify elements of their report for potential public release within a matter of days."
https://americanmilitarynews.com/2021/08/us-intel-community-still-cant-identify-covid-origins-months-after-biden-ordered-new-investigation-report/
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