{"id":1958834,"date":"2023-06-28T00:46:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T04:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/try-again-sens-hawley-braun-demand-biden-admin-turn-over-more-covid-origins-info-after-evasive-response\/"},"modified":"2023-06-28T00:47:03","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T04:47:03","slug":"try-again-sens-hawley-braun-demand-biden-admin-turn-over-more-covid-origins-info-after-evasive-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/try-again-sens-hawley-braun-demand-biden-admin-turn-over-more-covid-origins-info-after-evasive-response\/","title":{"rendered":"Sens. Hawley and Braun press Biden Admin for additional COVID origins information after evasive reply."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftry-again-sens-hawley-braun-demand-biden-admin-turn-over-more-covid-origins-info-after-evasive-response%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1958834&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0628\/bd3ae798-1d5c-4026-9943-c6c5e7071230\/audio.mp3?length=4142061&#038;duration=345\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Sens. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Mark Braun (R-Ind.) are demanding that President Joe Biden\u2019s administration provide more details about the origins of COVID-19 after releasing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/try-again-sens-hawley-braun-demand-biden-admin-turn-over-more-covid-origins-info-after-evasive-response\/\" title=\"Sens. Hawley and Braun press Biden Admin for additional COVID origins information after evasive reply.\">10-page report describing potential links<\/a> between the origins of the virus and work at a Chinese virology laboratory in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>In March, Congress passed, and Biden signed a law known as the COVID-19 Origin Act of 2023 that required the Biden administration to release \u201cany and all information\u201d relating to potential links between the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in Wuhan, China, and the origin of COVID-19. The law set a June 18 deadline to declassify and \u201cmake available to the public as much information as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hawley and Braun sent a reminder letter to Biden on June 14, but his administration still missed the June 18 deadline to declassify and publicly release the COVID-19 origins documents. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) instead published a 10-page document (pdf) five days late on the evening of June 23.<\/p>\n<p>The 10-page document included a one-page coversheet, a one-page table of contents, and a three-page appendix of terms used throughout the report. The five remaining pages of the report stated that the WIV worked \u201cwith several viruses, including coronaviruses, but no known viruses that could plausibly be a progenitor of SARS-CoV-2.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report also described how several WIV researchers fell ill in the fall of 2019 and said these researchers possessed some symptoms consistent with COVID-19 and some symptoms considered \u201cnot consistent\u201d with COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe COVID-19 Origin Act calls for a full declassification, not Cliffs Notes to cover for [Dr. Anthony Fauci] and protect China,\u201d Braun wrote in a Monday press statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/preposterous-and-false-human-rights-watch-slammed-for-report-demonizing-israel-omar-tlaib-celebrate\/\" title=\"\u2018Preposterous And False\u2019: Human Rights Watch Slammed For Report Demonizing Israel; Omar, Tlaib Celebrate\">report released today<\/a> by the DNI is totally insufficient. The bill Senator Hawley and I passed was to \u2018declassify <em>any and all<\/em> information relating to potential links between the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the origin of COVID-19\u2019 including several <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-europe-approaching-u-s-with-shopping-list-of-weapons-after-russian-invasion-of-ukraine\/\" title=\"Report: Europe Approaching U.S. with 'Shopping List' of Weapons after Russian Invasion of Ukraine\">specific requests related<\/a> to researchers\u2019 names and their activities at the Wuhan lab. Our bill was passed unanimously by a Democrat Senate and a Republican House and signed by President Biden.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis 9 page DNI report is 5 pages of titles and dictionary definitions, with only 4 pages of actual information, most of which is vague or already reported. The report contains no actual documents. The American people deserve the facts, not more half truths and politics,\u201d Braun added.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4978966\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/01\/11\/Wuhan-Institute-of-Virology-GettyImages-1230938269-1200x798.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a><br \/>\n\t\tSecurity personnel stand outside the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan in China\u2019s central Hubei province on Feb. 3, 2021. (Hector Retamal\/AFP via Getty Images)<br \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<h2>\u2018Failed to Comply\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>Braun and Hawley reiterated their disappointment in a letter to Avril Haines, who is Biden\u2019s director of national intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[The COVID-19 Origins Act] required the Director of National Intelligence to \u2018declassify any and all information\u2019 relating to links between the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the origin of COVID-19,\u201d the senators wrote in a letter they first shared with Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou failed to comply with both requirements. The deadline was June 18, 2023. Well past the statutory deadline, your office published a declassified report after business hours on June 23.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Braun and Hawley concluded that ODNI \u201cobviously\u201d has more information about the origins of COVID-19 and the WIV than the five-page summary would suggest. They al<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senators Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Mark Braun (R-Ind.) urge President Biden&#8217;s administration to disclose further information on COVID-19 origins. They refer to a 10-page report connecting the virus&#8217;s beginnings to a Chinese virology lab in 2019. 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