Tag: COVID-19 origins

Republican Senators Request All Records Behind Intelligence Chief’s COVID Origins Report

A group of Republican senators is calling on Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines to turn over the materials that informed her office’s latest assessment on the origins of COVID-19. In a March 6 letter (pdf), the senators—led by Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Md.)—asked that Haines provide the “memoranda; emails; interim and final assessments provided by…


Capitol Report: Trump Visits East Palestine; Rep. Brad Wenstrup Discusses New COVID Investigations

Former President Donald Trump is visiting East Palestine, Ohio, where cleanup is underway after the train derailment that has left the small town on edge from the chemical spill. What does Trump have to say and how is President Joe Biden responding? Biden is pledging full support for NATO as he wraps up his Poland trip, as…


National Security Experts Criticize Media, Scientists Who Dismissed COVID-19 Lab Leak Theory in Open Letter

A group of 43 national security experts published an open letter on Jan. 11 criticizing news organizations and scientific publications that dismissed the possibility that the COVID-19 pandemic might have been the result of a lab leak. The letter is addressed “To the editors, authors, and contributors to major scientific, medical, and journalistic publications worldwide.”…


COVID-19 May Have Been Connected to China’s Bioweapons Program: GOP Report

A new unclassified report (pdf) released by Republican members of the House Intelligence Committee alleges that COVID-19 “may have been tied” to China’s biological weapons research program. Released Dec. 14 by Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) and other Republicans on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), the minority report states that “there are indications…


Kash’s Corner: Full COVID-19 Origins ICA Report and Intelligence Should Be Declassified

The full U.S. intelligence community report on COVID-19 origins “needs to be declassified and put out for the American people to read, and not just the report, but the underlying intelligence cables and information that was used,” says Kash Patel. Tonight, Kash Patel and Jan Jekielek sit down to discuss the recent intelligence community assessment…


Kash’s Corner: Full COVID-19 Origins IC Report and Intelligence Should Be Declassified

The full U.S. intelligence community report on COVID-19 origins “needs to be declassified and put out for the American people to read, and not just the report, but the underlying intelligence cables and information that was used,” says Kash Patel. Kash Patel and Jan Jekielek sit down to discuss the recent intelligence community assessment and…


WHO to Set up New Group to Trace Virus Origins

GENEVA—The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday it was setting up a new group to trace the origins of the coronavirus, seeking to end what it called “political point scoring” that had hampered investigations. The inability of the WHO to say where and how the virus began spreading has fueled tensions among its members,…


More Than a Year After Declaring Pandemic, WHO Calls for ‘Audits’ of Wuhan Labs

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday called for an audit of laboratories in Wuhan, China, as part of a second phase of investigations into the origins of COVID-19 after the first phase failed to secure transparency and information sharing from the Chinese regime. A key priority to moving toward a deeper investigation into the…


China Should Provide Raw Data on Pandemic’s Origins—WHO’s Tedros

GENEVA—The head of the World Health Organisation said on Thursday that investigations into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic in China were being hampered by the lack of raw data on the first days of spread there and urged it to be more transparent. A WHO-led team spent four weeks in and around the central…


Aussie Lobster ‘Grey Trade’ Thrives as Smugglers Circumvent Beijing Bans

Chinese e-commerce platforms and wet markets are circumventing Beijing’s unofficial ban on Australian lobster imports by offering the popular delicacy for sale to Chinese consumers. Driven by strong demand, the lobster “grey trade” is thriving, with importers moving the Australian goods to Hong Kong and then into Mainland China via waterways. In May, Chinese police…