Biden’s presidency is coming to an end. But all the skeletons in his closet are about to be revealed.
And this bombshell report reveals Joe Biden’s involvement in this scandal involving a deadly global threat.
A new report has revealed that President Joe Biden’s administration withheld intelligence suggesting that COVID-19 originated from a lab leak in China. This information, provided by U.S. intelligence agencies, contradicts earlier assertions about the pandemic’s origins.
Jason Bannan, a microbiologist with a Ph.D., joined the FBI after the 9/11 attacks to enhance its capabilities in handling biological and chemical threats. He played a key role in the FBI’s investigation of COVID-19’s origins.
The FBI stood out as the only agency to assess with “moderate confidence” that the pandemic likely originated from a laboratory leak. In contrast, four other government departments supported a zoonotic origin theory, claiming the virus came from animals, but expressed “low confidence” in their conclusions, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Despite the FBI’s position, the agency was excluded from an August 2021 briefing to President Biden, conducted by National Intelligence Director Avril Haines. This meeting took place three months after Biden ordered a 90-day review to determine the origins of the pandemic.
“Being the only agency that assessed that a laboratory origin was more likely, and the agency that expressed the highest level of confidence in its analysis of the source of the pandemic, we anticipated the FBI would be asked to attend the briefing,” Bannan explained to The Wall Street Journal. “I find it surprising that the White House didn’t ask.”
The investigation by The Wall Street Journal revealed that officials within the Biden administration worked to prevent certain details about the lab leak theory from reaching the public. Additionally, the FBI was not the only agency to entertain suspicions of a lab origin.
Adrienne Keen, a State Department official who had prior experience with the World Health Organization (WHO), advocated for the credibility of the WHO’s report on the pandemic’s origins. However, that report was influenced by limited access to key evidence, as China obstructed the WHO’s investigation. The WHO concluded the virus likely had a zoonotic source.
During the Trump administration, the U.S. withdrew from the WHO, citing its role in promoting disinformation from China and its failure to hold Beijing accountable for its lack of transparency regarding COVID-19.
Keen later transitioned to the role of director for Global Health Security for the National Intelligence Council. This council was tasked with a central role in compiling the report for Biden on the pandemic’s origins.
Former Acting Assistant Secretary of State Thomas DiNanno, who served under the Trump administration, has alleged that Keen worked to discredit evidence supporting the lab leak theory. DiNanno told Sky News last year that Keen “was very involved in discrediting the information that we were trying to present to the Secretary of State.”
“I had found out that apparently she was an outside advisor also to the World Health Organization,” DiNanno added. “They’re a UN agency. So it’s just not appropriate to do work for a foreign power. And that would include the United Nations.”
The FBI relied on a thesis by Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) scientist Yu Ping, which argued that the coronavirus behind the pandemic was not native to Hubei province, where Wuhan is located. Instead, the virus was linked to bats found nearly a thousand miles away in Yunnan. According to the theory, if the virus had a zoonotic origin, cases would have first appeared in regions between Yunnan and Wuhan, home to millions of people. However, the first known cases were detected in Wuhan, near the WIV.
Keen reportedly dismissed the relevance of the lack of cases in the regions between Yunnan and Wuhan, claiming Chinese authorities lacked the surveillance tools to detect outbreaks there—a claim the FBI disputed.
Sky News reported that Keen declined to comment on whether she disclosed her prior involvement with the WHO to the U.S. government.
Meanwhile, scientists at the National Center for Medical Intelligence (NCMI), part of the Defense Intelligence Agency, also concluded the coronavirus was genetically modified in a Chinese lab. Their analysis found evidence of “gain of function” research, a controversial technique aimed at enhancing a virus’s ability to infect humans. This research had been described in a 2008 Chinese scientific paper.
The NCMI scientists—John Hardham, Robert Cutlip, and Jean-Paul Chretien—briefed counterparts, including an FBI agent, on their findings. But in July 2021, they were ordered by a superior at the medical intelligence center to stop sharing their work with the FBI, which was deemed “off the reservation,” according to sources familiar with the matter.
The suppression of their findings has sparked internal investigations. The Department of Energy later joined the FBI in concluding that a lab leak was the likely source of the pandemic.
Former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe also supported the lab leak theory. “Listen, the people that had the most access to the most intelligence, including myself and Secretary Pompeo, are telling you that the most likely origin of COVID-19…Was a lab leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology,” he said.
Ratcliffe’s assertion aligns with mounting evidence that the pandemic’s origins are tied to a Chinese lab, adding further weight to calls for greater transparency and accountability from the Biden administration and the federal government in general.
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