Whistleblower: CIA Panel Offered 'Financial Incentives' to Bury COVID Lab Leak Conclusion

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Two House GOP committee chairmen have written a letter to the Director of the CIA demanding answers over allegations from a whistleblower they describe as "a multi-decade, senior-level, current [CIA] officer."  Rep. Brad Wenstrup, Chairman of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, and Rep. Mike Turner, Chairman on the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, write that this "seemingly credible source" has leveled the accusation that a strong majority of a CIA-created 'COVID Discovery Team' believed that the available evidence regarding the pandemic's origins pointed toward a leak emerging from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China.  The CIA whistleblower alleges that "six of the seven members of the Team believed the intelligence and science were sufficient to make a low confidence assessment that COVID- 19 originated from a laboratory in Wuhan, China."  Given everything we've learned on the subject...Read more here.