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From Fox News: The CIA’s decision to release a Biden-era assessment favoring the once widely-dismissed COVID-19 lab-leak origin story marks a step toward transparency with the American people, newly-confirmed CIA Director John Ratcliffe told Fox News on Sunday.
Speaking in his first interview since being confirmed as the agency’s director last Thursday, Ratcliffe spelled out the insights he made public shortly after taking over the post and affirmed the importance of restoring trust in American institutions.
“I had the opportunity on my first day to make public an assessment that actually took place in the Biden administration, so it can’t be accused of being political, and the CIA has assessed that the most likely cause of this pandemic that has wrought so much devastation around the world was because of a lab-related incident in Wuhan, so we’ll continue to investigate that moving forward,” he told “Sunday Morning Futures” host Maria Bartiromo.
“I think it was important for the American people to see an institution like the CIA get off the sidelines and be truthful about what our intelligence shows and, at the same time, protect us from adversaries like China if they caused or contributed to this,” he added.
The CIA now appears to slightly favor the lab-leak theory that suggests gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China may have directly contributed to the virus.
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Today on @SundayFutures with @MariaBartiromo, CIA Director @JohnRatcliffe spoke about the CIA now favoring lab leak theory of covid-19 origins.@FoxNews pic.twitter.com/3KHgMZPdH2
— SundayMorningFutures (@SundayFutures) January 26, 2025
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— Fox News (@FoxNews) January 26, 2025
On May 31, 2024, Ratcliffe had posted a photo of himself in the Oval Office during Trump’s first term, and captioned it with a prediction, “January 21, 2025 workday.”
On January 24, Ratcliffe re-posted it with a checkmark, indicating mission accomplished.
— John Ratcliffe (@JohnRatcliffe) January 24, 2025
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