Lawmakers who have long pressed for transparency on COVID-19 origins said they are underwhelmed by the declassified U.S. intelligence report, saying that the administration hasn’t been fully transparent with what it knows.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) released the long-anticipated report on June 23 evening, days after missing a 90-day deadline mandated by the COVID-19 Origin Act of 2023. Passed by Congress and signed into law in March, the act requires disclosure of any possible links to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), which has been viewed as a likely pandemic origin.
While providing glimpses into activities going on at the Wuhan lab before the pandemic, the 10-page report—including three pages in appendices—isn’t conclusive on the virus source, instead leaving it open whether it may have been a product of nature or the lab….