After Congress unanimously passed legislation calling for the declassification of intelligence data on the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the President agreed and signed the legislation into law.
“We need to get to the bottom of COVID-19’s origins to help ensure we can better prevent future pandemics,” Biden said in a statement. “My Administration will continue to review all classified information relating to COVID19’s origins, including potential links to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”
He added that in implementing the legislation, the administration will “declassify 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.”
This month, both the Senate and the House unanimously passed the bipartisan bill, dubbed “COVID-19 Origin Act of 2023,” before sending it to Biden’s desk. The bill directs the Director of National Intelligence to “declassify any and all information relating to potential links between the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the origin” of COVID-19.
While it is highly doubtful that release of the information will do anything to improve future government responses to pandemics of infectious respiratory disease, the unusual emergence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus has occasioned more than a few disturbing and even terrifying questions regarding US biodefense and biosecurity programs, the funding links between those programs and biological research labs around the world, and the use of ethically suspect gain-of-function virological research methods. These questions need to be answered, and governments—particularly the US government—need to answer them.
Will declassification provide those answers? Probably not on its own, but it may help further lines of inquiry and bring more of the truth to light.
The best case scenario is that at least some questions get answered by declassification.
The worst case scenario is people get to see to what extent government agencies will try to keep information about the virus from the general public—which itself will tend to answer a few questions.
Ultimately, declassification of COVID intel is not a bad thing. It is a long overdue thing.
["...to help ensure we can better prevent future pandemics,” ]
There's the story.
Anything they release will be used to scare the public into going along with all sorts of government spending on programs that will likely make things worse, and create additional adverse conditions.
The fact it was classified to start with says it all. The virus is only part of the story. I believe it came from gain of function research and was leaked. The cover up and tyranny in multiple nations is a huge part of the story and is ongoing today. The profits big RX made is another part of the story. Dr. Fouchi was going door to door in DC lying to people on camera. He also outed his true intentions by saying Republicans are the problem, driving division. Politicizing the virus and vaccine was a massive mistake. People in multiple nations are dying on a daily basis. I read stories everyday about children and teenagers dying suddenly. I know that many deaths in America's hospitals were blamed on COVID. How many were really serious reactions from the vaccine? I'm grateful to all those demanding the truth. How many careers have been destroyed along the way. Stay on course for all those who became before us to preserve the truth.
If Congress passed the legislation and Biden signed it, you know that they won't be investigating our own DOD!!!!!!!
Problem is, that bill only declassifies information directly related to Wuhan.
no data from Fort Dietrich, Peter Baric's lab records, the alphabet agencies, or anywhere else... unless it has a Wuhan tag on it.
["...to help ensure we can better prevent future pandemics,” ]
There's the story.
Anything they release will be used to scare the public into going along with all sorts of government spending on programs that will likely make things worse, and create additional adverse conditions.
JUST. LIKE. ALL. BIG. GOVERNMENT. PROGRAMS.
The fact it was classified to start with says it all. The virus is only part of the story. I believe it came from gain of function research and was leaked. The cover up and tyranny in multiple nations is a huge part of the story and is ongoing today. The profits big RX made is another part of the story. Dr. Fouchi was going door to door in DC lying to people on camera. He also outed his true intentions by saying Republicans are the problem, driving division. Politicizing the virus and vaccine was a massive mistake. People in multiple nations are dying on a daily basis. I read stories everyday about children and teenagers dying suddenly. I know that many deaths in America's hospitals were blamed on COVID. How many were really serious reactions from the vaccine? I'm grateful to all those demanding the truth. How many careers have been destroyed along the way. Stay on course for all those who became before us to preserve the truth.