It is “more likely” that the coronavirus leaked from a Chinese laboratory than from animals, according to a CIA assessment. However, the US intelligence agency stressed that it has “low confidence” in this scenario. “We estimate, albeit with low confidence, that the origin of the Covid-19 pandemic linked to laboratory research is more likely than a natural origin, based on the volume of reports available,” a CIA spokesperson said in a statement to NBC News. In an interview with Breitbart News published Friday, Ratcliffe said he wanted the CIA to drop its neutral stance on the origin of the virus and “get off the sidelines.” “One of the things I’ve talked about a lot is dealing with the threat from China on multiple fronts, and that goes back to why a million Americans died and why the Central Intelligence Agency sat on the sidelines for five years, not making an assessment about the origin of the coronavirus,” he said. […]
Source: News Beast

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