A Wall Street Journal report reveals that members of the U.S. intelligence community who believed the coronavirus originated from a lab leak in China were prevented from sharing their opinions and research with a wider audience within the intelligence community. This occurred during the early months of the Biden administration, when the prevailing view was that COVID-19 originated organically in Wuhan, likely through the wildlife trade.
Members of the U.S. intelligence community who believed that the coronavirus may have originated from a lab leak in China were blocked from sharing their opinions and research with the broader intel community, according to sources inside the FBI and other government officials familiar with the Biden administration's internal efforts during the pandemic. In the first few months after COVID arrived in the U.S.
At the time, the FBI was the only government agency concluding that a lab leak origin theory was most likely.
In response to the assertions made in the Wall Street Journal's report, a spokesperson for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said that the intelligence community-wide assessment of the origins of COVID-19 included input 'from across the community on the two main hypotheses of the origins of the pandemic in line with all of the Intelligence Community’s analytic standards, including objectivity.
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