Now THERE’S a surprise…
03-10-2023, 08:00 AM
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The House unanimously approved a bill on Friday that would require the director of national intelligence (DNI) to declassify information related to the origins of COVID-19, sending the measure to President Biden’s desk for final approval.
The legislation, titled the COVID-19 Origin Act, passed in a 419-0 vote, just over a week after the Senate approved the bill by unanimous consent. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) sponsored the measure.
The White House has not indicated whether Biden will sign the measure. Asked on Wednesday if the president had made a decision on the bill, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre referred reporters to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI).
The Senate passed the measure by unanimous consent last year, but it was not brought up in the House.
The renewed push on Capitol Hill to declassify intelligence pertaining to the origins of COVID-19 came shortly after The Wall Street Journal reported the Energy Department had determined, with “low confidence,” that coronavirus most likely came from a laboratory in China.
The determination, for which the Journal cited a classified intelligence report, was a change from the department’s previous undecided stance on COVID-19’s origins. The classified report, according to the newspaper, was recently sent to the White House and some congressional lawmakers.
The legislation, titled the COVID-19 Origin Act, passed in a 419-0 vote, just over a week after the Senate approved the bill by unanimous consent. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) sponsored the measure.
The White House has not indicated whether Biden will sign the measure. Asked on Wednesday if the president had made a decision on the bill, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre referred reporters to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI).
The Senate passed the measure by unanimous consent last year, but it was not brought up in the House.
The renewed push on Capitol Hill to declassify intelligence pertaining to the origins of COVID-19 came shortly after The Wall Street Journal reported the Energy Department had determined, with “low confidence,” that coronavirus most likely came from a laboratory in China.
The determination, for which the Journal cited a classified intelligence report, was a change from the department’s previous undecided stance on COVID-19’s origins. The classified report, according to the newspaper, was recently sent to the White House and some congressional lawmakers.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcar...o-bidens-desk/
03-15-2023, 08:19 AM
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Originally Posted by rickair7777
The media didn't lie they just didn't know (that one dude with connections to the lab probably did lie IMO).
Being spring-loaded to a lab leak initially was a ridiculous position, since nobody knew... wanting so, so badly to believe in a conspiracy is not the same as knowing.
Since billions of viruses have vectored out of nature for billions of years, wet market is actually the Occam's Razor presumption. The real world is not a Michael Crichton novel.
I said from day one that they needed to investigate ALL possible avenues because the consequences of getting it wrong are too drastic to screw up. Political preconceptions have no place in that because that won't help prevent the next one.
I'm more inclined to the lab leak theory now based on the bug's behavior over time... it's a been a bit more tenacious over several years than one might have expected for a natural bug, which supports the GoF theory. Not conclusive, but hints at that. They still need to investigate it properly.
Being spring-loaded to a lab leak initially was a ridiculous position, since nobody knew... wanting so, so badly to believe in a conspiracy is not the same as knowing.
Since billions of viruses have vectored out of nature for billions of years, wet market is actually the Occam's Razor presumption. The real world is not a Michael Crichton novel.
I said from day one that they needed to investigate ALL possible avenues because the consequences of getting it wrong are too drastic to screw up. Political preconceptions have no place in that because that won't help prevent the next one.
I'm more inclined to the lab leak theory now based on the bug's behavior over time... it's a been a bit more tenacious over several years than one might have expected for a natural bug, which supports the GoF theory. Not conclusive, but hints at that. They still need to investigate it properly.
Anyone with a brain figured it out after the first few months. As Jon Stewart said, if candy bars were making people sick in Hershey, Pennsylvania you would think there’s something going on at the chocolate factory. That’s not a conspiracy theory. That would rightfully be everyone’s first suspicion. But in the case of Covid… that type of thinking was tin foil hat wearing racism.
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