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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,985 posts)
Tue May 25, 2021, 08:36 PM May 2021

Pompeo-led effort to hunt down Covid lab theory shut down by Biden administration over concerns abou

Source: CNN

about quality of evidence

President Joe Biden's team shut down a closely-held State Department effort launched late in the Trump administration to prove the coronavirus originated in a Chinese lab over concerns about the quality of its work, according to three sources familiar with the decision.

The existence of the State Department inquiry and its termination this spring by the Biden administration -- neither of which has been previously reported -- comes to light amid renewed interest in whether the virus could have leaked out of a Wuhan lab with links to the Chinese military. The Biden administration is also facing scrutiny of its own efforts to determine if the Chinese government was responsible for the virus.

Those involved in the previously undisclosed inquiry, which was launched last fall by allies of then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, say it was an honest effort to probe what many initially dismissed: that China's biological weapons program could have had a greater role in the pandemic's origin in Wuhan, according to two additional sources.

But the inquiry quickly became mired in internal discord amid concerns that it was part of a broader politicized effort by the Trump administration to blame China and cherry-pick facts to prove a theory.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/pompeo-led-effort-to-hunt-down-covid-lab-theory-shut-down-by-biden-administration-over-concerns-about-quality-of-evidence/ar-AAKnCN9?li=BBnb7Kz



"I would have found the evidence if Bigfoot hadn't stolen it." Pompeo.
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Pompeo-led effort to hunt down Covid lab theory shut down by Biden administration over concerns abou (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2021 OP
Cleaning out Donnie Covid's filth will take months. paleotn May 2021 #1
Hoping someone would lead an effort to hunt down Pompeo. Sneederbunk May 2021 #2
Can't blame 'em there. I would not have taken the vaccine if Trump were still in office . . . Journeyman May 2021 #3
"quality of its work" stopdiggin May 2021 #4
"cherry-pick facts to prove a theory" - that's a mighty generous characterization of the Trump progree May 2021 #5
Honestly, I don't dismiss the possibility, gab13by13 May 2021 #6

Journeyman

(15,031 posts)
3. Can't blame 'em there. I would not have taken the vaccine if Trump were still in office . . .
Tue May 25, 2021, 08:53 PM
May 2021

Don't trust those criminals with anything, let alone my health.

stopdiggin

(11,306 posts)
4. "quality of its work"
Tue May 25, 2021, 10:26 PM
May 2021

Choking and gasping for air! Oh! That was GOOD!

Would that be like Rudy Giuliani, or Paul Manafort type of 'quality?'

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progree

(10,907 posts)
5. "cherry-pick facts to prove a theory" - that's a mighty generous characterization of the Trump
Wed May 26, 2021, 02:39 AM
May 2021

administration's modus operandi. They usually don't bother with facts at all, they just make everything up.

gab13by13

(21,337 posts)
6. Honestly, I don't dismiss the possibility,
Wed May 26, 2021, 06:00 AM
May 2021

that the virus escaped the lab. With that said, if so, it was accidental. With that said, if the virus escaped the lab the Chinese should have immediately let the world know about what happened. The Chinese tried to hide the virus but so did Trump try to hide the virus. Trump even said at the onset that the Chinese had the situation under control.

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