Back in March this year, Biden signed a bipartisan bill that directed the federal government to declassify as much intelligence as possible about the origins of covid.
The legislation, which passed both the House and Senate without dissent, directs the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to declassify intelligence related to China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology. It cites “potential links” between the research that was done there and the outbreak of Covid-19, which the World Health Organization declared a pandemic on March 11, 2020. The law allows for redactions to protect sensitive sources and methods.
U.S. intelligence agencies are divided over whether a lab leak or a spillover from animals is the likely source of the deadly virus. Experts say the true origin of the coronavirus pandemic, which has killed more than 1.1 million in the U.S. and millions more around the globe, may not be known for many years — if ever.
Recent revelations have identified Chinese scientists working at the Wuhan Institute of Virology as “patients zero” and have focused on poor biosafety practices that may have contributed to a lab leak zero. So, after years of being deemed a racist conspiracy theory, the lab leak origin is the theory that has sustained the test of time and evidence.
Thus, there is now a great deal of interest in the covid origin material that is slated to be declassified. However, the Biden team has missed the deadline. The deadline passed on Sunday without the declassification happening.