5 days ago · On Saturday, a spokesperson for China’s U.S. embassy said the CIA report has no credibility. ... Ratcliffe, who served as director of national intelligence during Trump’s first term, has said he favors the lab leak scenario, too. “The lab leak is the only theory supported by science, intelligence, and common sense,” Ratcliffe said in ...

3 days ago · China said Monday it was "extremely unlikely" COVID-19 came from a laboratory, after the CIA said it believed the virus had more likely come from a lab rather than natural transmission. "The ...

3 days ago · China on Monday dismissed the possibility that the virus that caused COVID-19 leaked from a lab, after the CIA said it now favors the so-called lab leak theory over natural transmission.

3 days ago · The Chinese foreign ministry hit back then too. “By rehashing the lab-leak theory,” said Mao Ning, “the U.S. will not succeed in discrediting China, and instead, it will only hurt its own ...

5 days ago · The CIA now assesses the virus that causes Covid-19 more likely originated from an accidental lab leak in China, rather than occurring naturally, according to a statement from the agency Saturday ...

5 days ago · The CIA said Saturday it has shifted its previous assessments and has concluded that it’s likely the Covid-19 virus was leaked from a Chinese lab before it became a global pandemic but added ...

3 days ago · A top Chinese official on Monday denied suggestions from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency that the Covid-19 pandemic was triggered by the virus leaking from a lab. “The conclusion that a laboratory leak is extremely unlikely was reached by the joint China–WHO expert team based on field visits to relevant laboratories in Wuhan,” said Mao Ning, Beijing's Foreign Ministry spokesperson ...

2 days ago · “Now, the most important thing is to make China pay for unleashing a plague on the world,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), a veteran advocate of the lab-leak theory, told Politico. In an interview ...

5 days ago · A new analysis that began under the Biden administration is released by the C.I.A.’s new director, John Ratcliffe, who wants the agency to get “off the sidelines” in the debate.

Sep 12, 2023 · An unnamed CIA whistleblower has made the dramatic allegation that six analysts there were bribed to reject the theory that COVID-19 resulted from a research-related leak of a new coronavirus, according to a press release today from the office of the Republican leading a congressional investigation into the pandemic.