New CIA boss Ratcliffe says Biden-era report backing lab-leak theory released to 'restore' trust

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New CIA boss Ratcliffe says Biden-era report backing lab-leak theory released to 'restore' trust
CIA spokesperson previously told Fox News the agency made the assessment with 'low confidence'
 By Taylor Penley Fox News
Published January 26, 2025 12:19pm EST

The CIA's decision to release a Biden-era assessment favoring the once widely-dismissed COVID-19 lab-leak origin story marks a step toward transparency with the American people, newly-confirmed CIA Director John Ratcliffe told Fox News on Sunday.

Speaking in his first interview since being confirmed as the agency's director last Thursday, Ratcliffe spelled out the insights he made public shortly after taking over the post and affirmed the importance of restoring trust in American institutions.

"I had the opportunity on my first day to make public an assessment that actually took place in the Biden administration, so it can't be accused of being political, and the CIA has assessed that the most likely cause of this pandemic that has wrought so much devastation around the world was because of a lab-related incident in Wuhan, so we'll continue to investigate that moving forward," he told "Sunday Morning Futures" host Maria Bartiromo.

"I think it was important for the American people to see an institution like the CIA get off the sidelines and be truthful about what our intelligence shows and, at the same time, protect us from adversaries like China if they caused or contributed to this," he added.

The CIA now appears to slightly favor the lab-leak theory that suggests gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China may have directly contributed to the virus.

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[Smokin Joe]

The CIA now appears to slightly favor the lab-leak theory that suggests gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China may have directly contributed to the virus.

Oh please.

Don't piss on my head and tell me it is raining.

We know where it was created. (Chapel Hill, NC, 2014)

The research team wrote it up (Nature, 2015), and included two researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

It went to Wuhan when gain of Function research was officially banned in the US, but continued to be funded through US Sources. Fauci KNEW, he'd likely had some hand in approving the funding. But that was just one of the blizzard of lies he told.

Timing raises the big question, not one of it being zoonotic from a wet market--we know it came from a lab, but whether the lab release was accidental or intentional, designed to crash the Trump Economy in an election year and set up conditions which would facilitate the sort of rule changes that enabled stealing an election if need be (and the need was there).

If the CIA is behind the curve that far, we, as a nation, are in serious trouble.