Biden orders U.S. intelligence to release ALL documents on COVID origins and any links to Wuhan lab within 90 days: America moves one step closer to learning truth about lab leaks and China’s role
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Joe Biden signed a new bill into law on Monday that could shed light on the links between the coronavirus pandemic and a lab in China’s Wuhan from which it emerged.
The move requires all U.S. intelligence related to that link and the origins of COVID-19 to be released within 90 days of the law’s enactment.
“We need to get to the bottom of the origins of Covid-19,” Biden wrote in a statement. He noted that any material released should also include “possible links to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”
“In implementing this legislation, my administration will declassify and share as much of that information as possible,” he added.
President Joe Biden signed into law Monday requiring U.S. intelligence to release all material related to the origins of COVID-19
In particular, this includes releasing information related to links between the COVID-19 leak and the infamous laboratory it allegedly originated in Wuhan, China
The bill passed unanimously in the House and Senate before being passed to the White House. Missouri Republican Senator Josh Hawley originally sponsored the bill.
Biden’s signature now directs Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines to release all information gathered by the U.S. intelligence community over the next three months regarding the origins of the COVID-19 virus.
The debate in Washington, D.C. over China deliberately leaking the virus from a laboratory in Wuhan has recently reignited. The Wall Street Journal reported last month that the Department of Energy ruled — albeit with low confidence — that the pandemic likely stemmed from the alleged Chinese lab leak.
Beijing denies this assessment.
The president claims he believes in Congress’ goal of making as much information available as possible about where and how the coronavirus pandemic originated.
But he claimed that national security risks still need to be assessed when it comes to what his administration decides to release to the public.
“In implementing this legislation, my administration will release and share as much of that information as possible consistent with my constitutional authority to protect against the disclosure of information that would harm national security,” Biden said in a statement on the release.
Lawmakers are embroiled in a highly politicized debate over the origins of the coronavirus, which plunged the world into a three-year pandemic since the first cases were reported in Wuhan in late 2019.
It comes as Republicans — and even some Democrats — have pushed Biden to take a tougher stance against rising threats from China.
DNI Haines must prepare a report of the declassified information and submit it to Congress.
COVID-19 was first detected in Wuhan, China, in late 2019. The US energy department ruled – albeit with low confidence – that the pandemic likely stemmed from the alleged Chinese lab leak
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