Whistleblower says CIA bribed analysts to hide Covid-19's lab origin

[Etelfrido]

https://oversight.house.gov/release/...id-19-origins/

WASHINGTON — Staff on the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic and Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence have heard testimony from a whistleblower alleging that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) offered six analysts significant monetary incentives to change their position on COVID-19’s origin. The whistleblower, who presents as a highly credible senior-level CIA officer, alleges that of the seven members assigned to the CIA team tasked with analyzing COVID-19 origins, six officers concluded that the virus likely originated from a lab in Wuhan, China. The CIA, then however, allegedly offered financial incentives to six of the experts involved in the investigation to change their conclusion in favor of a zoonotic origin.

https://abc3340.com/news/nation-worl...hio-biden-meta

In February, the Wall Street Journal reported that the U.S. Department of Energy concluded that Covid-19 originated in a Wuhan lab. Other reports show that the Biden administration pressured Meta to suppress posts about the virus, including ones that theorized a lab leak theory.

https://www.science.org/content/arti...-whistleblower

The U.S. intelligence community has been reluctant to detail how its agencies have come to their tentative and conflicting conclusions about the origin of COVID-19, recently releasing only minimal information on their analyses in response to a law demanding the declassification of all relevant material. This limited release has frustrated supporters of the lab-leak hypothesis as well as those who felt that greater transparency would have justified why many infectious disease researchers and virologists still favor a natural origin for the pandemic.

A few researchers have revealed how they cooperated with some of the intelligence agencies. Evolutionary biologist Kristian Andersen of Scripps Research and virologist Robert Garry of Tulane University, who have co-authored studies supporting the zoonotic origin and testified before Wenstrup’s committee, both met with CIA agents probing the COVID-19 origin over the past few years. Andersen said that “several scientists were part of their team and they knew their stuff.” He asserts that the new whistleblower allegation “obviously is bullshit.”

Garry similarly says it sounds “ludicrous,” noting that the CIA agent who interviewed him “had a solid grasp of all the molecular biology” and didn’t give him any sense of leaning in either direction. “This keeps getting stranger,” Garry adds.

The US used to fund the lab where the virus supposed leaked from. Why would they fund it?

[Etelfrido]

Will CIA be punished for it? Could Biden administration's pressure on Meta to hide posts related to the disease have an effect on his impeachment?