{"id":941505,"date":"2021-10-30T11:59:15","date_gmt":"2021-10-30T15:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=941505"},"modified":"2021-10-30T11:59:20","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T15:59:20","slug":"u-s-intelligence-agencies-dont-expect-to-determine-covid-19-origins-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-intelligence-agencies-dont-expect-to-determine-covid-19-origins-report\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Intelligence Agencies Don\u2019t Expect To Determine COVID-19 Origins: Report"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fu-s-intelligence-agencies-dont-expect-to-determine-covid-19-origins-report%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=941505&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--><p>With the information currently available to them, U.S. intelligence agencies say they won\u2019t be able to definitively determine how COVID-19 originated.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/coronavirus-pandemic-joe-biden-science-health-china-2fe4518ac7aef9b54ea4329385d121c4?utm_source=facebook&amp;utm_medium=news_tab&amp;utm_content=curated\">reported<\/a> that intelligence officials on Friday said they could not conclude \u201cwhether COVID-19 spread by animal-to-human transmission or leaked from a lab\u201d while releasing a full review of their investigation into the origins.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe paper issued by the Director of National Intelligence elaborates on findings released in August of a 90-day review ordered by President Joe Biden. That review said that U.S. intelligence agencies were divided on the origins of the virus but that analysts do not believe the virus was developed as a bioweapon and that most agencies believe the virus was not genetically engineered,\u201d the AP reported.<\/p>\n<p>The outlet also noted that China is not being forthcoming when it comes to investigations of the origins of the virus.<\/p>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump and Republicans initially tried to find out how the coronavirus originated but were dismissed as conspiracy theorists and racists. As The Daily Wire previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/senior-biden-officials-now-say-coronavirus-lab-leak-theory-as-possible-as-it-occurring-naturally\">reported<\/a>, the Biden administration earlier this year admitted that it was just as possible that the coronavirus escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China, as it was that the virus emerged naturally. It was a complete turnaround from the previous year, when media outlets such as The Washington Post declared suggestions that the virus originated in a Wuhan lab were \u201cdebunked. Back then, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) was \u201cfact checked\u201d by people who had no first-hand knowledge of where the virus came from, but who insisted China must be telling the truth that the coronavirus originated in a wet market.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that The Washington Post&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/media\/556418-washington-post-issues-correction-on-2020-report-on-tom-cotton-lab-leak-theory\">changed its headline<\/a>&nbsp;regarding Cotton\u2019s questions regarding the origins of the coronavirus. The original headline stated that \u201cTom Cotton keeps repeating a coronavirus conspiracy theory that was already debunked.\u201d In early June, the headline was changed to \u201cTom Cotton keeps repeating a coronavirus fringe theory that scientists have disputed.\u201d The article was also updated with a \u201ccorrection\u201d that reads:<\/p>\n<p><em>Earlier versions of this story and its headline inaccurately characterized comments by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) regarding the origins of the coronavirus. The term \u2018debunked\u2019 and The Post\u2019s use of \u2018conspiracy theory\u2019 have been removed because, then as now, there was no determination about the origins of the virus.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As The Daily Wire previously&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/media-claims-tom-cotton-coronavirus-claims-debunked-fail-to-debunk-what-he-actually-said\">reported<\/a>, the Post\u2019s original fact check claimed Cotton said something he didn\u2019t say. The fact check claimed Cotton was suggesting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the information currently available to them, U.S. intelligence agencies say they won\u2019t be able to definitively determine how COVID-19 originated.The Associated Press reported that intelligence officials on Friday said they could not conclude \u201cwhether COVID-19 spread by animal-to-human transmission or leaked from a lab\u201d while releasing a full review of their investigation into the origins.\u201cThe paper issued by the Director of National Intelligence elaborates on findings released in August of a 90-day review ordered by President Joe Biden. That review said that U.S. intelligence agencies were divided on the origins of the virus but that analysts do not believe the virus was developed as a bioweapon and that most agencies believe the virus was not genetically engineered,\u201d the AP reported.The outlet also noted that China is not being forthcoming when it comes to investigations of the origins of the virus.Former President Donald Trump and Republicans initially tried to find out how the coronavirus originated but were dismissed as conspiracy theorists and racists. As The Daily Wire previously reported, the Biden administration earlier this year admitted that it was just as possible that the coronavirus escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China, as it was that the virus emerged naturally. It was a complete turnaround from the previous year, when media outlets such as The Washington Post declared suggestions that the virus originated in a Wuhan lab were \u201cdebunked. Back then, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) was \u201cfact checked\u201d by people who had no first-hand knowledge of where the virus came from, but who insisted China must be telling the truth that the coronavirus originated in a wet market.Recall that The Washington Post\u00a0changed its headline\u00a0regarding Cotton\u2019s questions regarding the origins of the coronavirus. The original headline stated that \u201cTom Cotton keeps repeating a coronavirus conspiracy theory that was already debunked.\u201d In early June, the headline was changed to \u201cTom Cotton keeps repeating a coronavirus fringe theory that scientists have disputed.\u201d The article was also updated with a \u201ccorrection\u201d that reads:Earlier versions of this story and its headline inaccurately characterized comments by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) regarding the origins of the coronavirus. The term \u2018debunked\u2019 and The Post\u2019s use of \u2018conspiracy theory\u2019 have been removed because, then as now, there was no determination about the origins of the virus.As The Daily Wire previously\u00a0reported, the Post\u2019s original fact check claimed Cotton said something he didn\u2019t say. The fact check claimed Cotton was suggesting the coronavirus was manmade, something he didn\u2019t claim.\u201cWe don\u2019t know where it originated, and we have to get to the bottom of that,\u201d Cotton said on Fox News\u2019 \u201cSunday Morning Futures.\u201d \u201cWe also know that just a few miles away from that food market is China\u2019s only biosafety level 4 super laboratory that researches human infectious diseases.\u201d\u201cNow, we don\u2019t have evidence that this disease originated there, but because of China\u2019s duplicity and dishonesty from the beginning, we need to at least ask the question to see what the evidence says,\u201d Cotton added. \u201cAnd China right now is not giving any evidence on that question at all.\u201dYet the Post and other media outlets decided to \u201cdebunk\u201d the claim that the coronavirus was manmade, something Cotton didn\u2019t claim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-941505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=941505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}