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The truth will be so damning they had no other choice but vote in a
way they could later use to try to spin themselves as "Investigative
Saints" out of their own mess...


Entire US Congress Votes To Declassify COVID-19 Origins Intel

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https://twitter.com/liz_elkind/status/1633855718834024448

100% of lawmakers in the House on Friday voted to pass a bill
requiring the Biden administration to declassify intelligence related
to investigations into the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China and
Covid-19.

The Covid Origins Act of 2023, sponsored by Sens. Josh Hawley (R-MO)
and Mike Braun (R-IN), passed by a vote of 410 to 0, after clearing
the Senate by unanimous consent last week.

"Covid-19 pandemic wreaked havoc across the country with almost every
household feeling its effects. The United States death toll from this
virus has surpassed one million people. Although concrete data is hard
to lock down, millions of people are suffering from the long-term
effects directly attributed to this virus. It is becoming increasingly
clear that school-aged children face hurdles because of long-term
school closures. The American people need to know all the aspects,
including how this virus was created and specifically, whether it was
a natural occurrence of the result of a lab-related event," said House
Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner (R-OH) in a floor speech.

Next stop, President Biden's desk.

And while Biden has officially said he hasn't "made that decision yet"
over whether to sign it into law and release the intelligence, we
can't imagine he won't, lest he defy the entirety of Congress.

    The House passed S. 619 – A bill to require the Director of
National Intelligence to declassify information relating to the origin
of COVID-19, and for other purposes by a vote of 419-0.
https://t.co/ElZcCjm8yq
    — House Press Gallery (@HouseDailyPress) March 10, 2023

So, what will we get? Probably what's already known; that the FBI and
the Energy Department believe with 'moderate' and 'low' confidence
respectively that Covid-19 likely arose from a laboratory leak - while
four other agencies and a national intelligence panel continue to
believe that the pandemic was likely the result of zoonotic spillover.

Will the disclosure point to door #1 - that Dr. Anthony Fauci
offshored previously-banned Gain-of-Function bat covid research in a
scientific collaboration on Chinese soil where it escaped
(intentionally or otherwise)?

Or door #2 - that bats from a cave 450 miles away with a strain of
Covid 96.8% similar to Covid-19 infected an intermediary species, of
which either (or both) emerged with Covid-19 at a Wuhan wet market
across town from the aforementioned Fauci-funded lab where they were
infecting 'humanized' mice with Covid strains? A relatively rare
occurrence according to the WIV in 2018.

    The DEFUSE grant is the closest thing we have to a lab notebook of
coronavirus researchers in Wuhan prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

    That 2018 grant could predict genomic & geographic anomalies of
SARS-CoV-2 better than I could predict the winning PowerBall numbers.
https://t.co/xOtPcJ2DME
    — Alex Washburne (@WashburneAlex) March 11, 2023

Or Door #3, that China went rogue, stole Peter Daszak's crazy plans
(which DARPA turned down), and started going bat-covid crazy?

    China has a long history of stealing trade secrets for "national security".

    It's entirely plausible that CCP could've caught wind of DEFUSE
from Zheng-Li and funded it entirely within China to develop a vaccine
under combined economic & health 'national security' justifications.
    — Alex Washburne (@WashburneAlex) March 11, 2023

What we do know is that there were 'humanized' mice being bred in
China in mid-2019, long before the outbreak in Wuhan. As Vanity Fair
noted almost two years ago - a May 2020 Chinese research paper
describing mice which had lung tissue that approximated a human's (via
National Review):

    Using the gene-editing technology known as CRISPR, the researchers
had engineered mice with humanized lungs, then studied their
susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2. As the NSC officials worked backward
from the date of publication to establish a timeline for the study, it
became clear that the mice had been engineered sometime in the summer
of 2019, before the pandemic even started. The NSC officials were left
wondering: Had the Chinese military been running viruses through
humanized mouse models, to see which might be infectious to humans?

And as journalist Josh Rogin wrote in Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi,
and the Battle for the 21st Century (again, via National Review):

    After consultations with experts, some U.S. officials came to
believe that this Beijing lab was likely conducting coronavirus
experiments on mice fitted with ACE2 receptors well before the
coronavirus outbreak — research they hadn’t disclosed and continued to
not admit to. That, by itself, did not help to explain how SARS-CoV-2
originated. But it did make clear to U.S. officials that there was a
lot of risky coronavirus experiments going on in Chinese labs that the
rest of the world was simply not aware of. “This was just a peek under
a curtain of an entire galaxy of activity, including labs in Beijing
and Wuhan playing around with coronaviruses in ACE2 mice in unsafe
labs,” the senior administration official said. “It suggests we’re
getting a peek at a body of activity that isn’t understood in the West
or even has precedent here.”

And how much of that was done with knowledge, funding or collaboration
from entities outside of China?

China contacted Hawley's office on Wednesday to object to the bill,
telling him that its only purpose is to "politicize and stigmatize
China."

"The move by the U.S. Congress just shows that the U.S. is going
further and further down the wrong path of political manipulation. The
so-called traceability report by the U.S. intelligence agency is an
attempt to ‘presume guilt’ on China. It is an attempt to shift the
blame from its own failure to fight the epidemic to China," wrote
government attorney Li Xiang.

    SCOOP: A Chinese govt official sent this letter to the office of
Sen. @HawleyMO yesterday, criticizing Congress for the COVID Origin
Act that he introduced in late February pic.twitter.com/yJPsk9Zxok
    — Liz Elkind (@liz_elkind) March 9, 2023

Does Congress ever do things unanimously?