Journalist: Covid-19 Origin Act does not compel spy agencies to declassify what they know about Chinese labs

Journalist: Covid-19 Origin Act does not compel spy agencies to declassify what they know about Chinese labs

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Scientists, politicians and media in the US want the numerous government and private entities whose classified documents should be declassified.

Francis Boyle, professor of international law at the University of Illinois, says these entities include the University of North Carolina, the National Center for Toxicological Research, the US Food and Drug Administration, the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute at Harvard Medical School, the US Agency for International Development, EcoHealth Alliance and the Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick.

Independent journalist Sam Husseini noted that state governments and private institutions also are likely to possess important information that the Covid-19 Origin Act does not cover. These include Scripps Research, Tulane University and the Wellcome Trust.”

The Wellcome Trust is headed by Jeremy Farrar, now chief scientist for the World Health Organization. “Farrar played a central role in disseminating the propaganda line that Covid could not have lab origins in early 2020,” Husseini said.

US Right to Know sued the University of North Carolina, which is publicly owned, after it failed to respond to the watchdog group’s FOIA requests.

Husseini said the Covid-19 Origin Act “doesn’t even instruct the DNI [Director of National Intelligence] to declassify what it knows about other Chinese government institutions like the Chinese CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention].”

Husseini told The Defender, “Since [Fauci] retired, the system has seemingly skillfully tried to put the deranged stance of the last three years into the rear-view mirror hoping people will forget the massive propaganda.”

Boyle told The Defender that “from this legislation, it does appear they’re trying to pin it all on China.”

Husseini, noting that “China may well have major culpability,” said this is not the same as full or exclusive culpability, which is what the US government may now be attempting to establish.

Husseini wrote that “a general anti-China agenda, has taken primacy and is part of a dynamic which ‘ultimately lets’ US institutions and ‘US biowarfare off the hook.’”

He told The Defender, “There are two pillars of the US establishment here – one wants to polarise at some level with China and the other wants to ensure the US government continues its discovery of bioweapons agents.

“For the establishment to be maintained, both those strains need to be maintained.”

According to Husseini, this may explain why the bill passed both houses with seemingly little debate. It passed the Senate with “unanimous consent,” and subsequently passed the House in a unanimous vote.

Husseini noted that Representative Thomas Massie (Republican-Kentucky), a member of the House Rules Committee, even put forth a rule “to ensure passage of Hawley’s bill.”

Husseini said Biden, who hasn’t yet said if he will sign the bill, has a few options he may be considering, telling The Defender: “I see no sign of actual opposition from the Biden administration and I suspect this is all being done in coordination with the director of National Intelligence, as were the reports in the Wall Street Journal that drove this narrative.

“It’s possible Biden wants to appear reluctant on this and I suppose Biden could veto it and get an override so he could pose as being conciliatory to the Chinese or the like.”

Husseini said that “with the collapse of the completely fictional Daszak narrative in the late Spring and Summer of 2021 … a backup narrative has been put forward, especially through the Wall Street Journal,” whose report on the Department of Energy pivoting toward the “lab leak theory” was co-written by Michael Gordon, “who with Judy Miller perpetrated the Iraq weapons of mass destruction fraud on the US public.”

He also blamed wide swaths of the independent media, particularly left-leaning outlets, for going along with establishment efforts to discredit the theory that Covid-19 emerged from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

“Much of ‘the Left’ has basically done everything to kill lab origin – and effectively made it a right-wing issue,” Husseini said.

According to Husseini, those who long promoted the Chinese response to Covid-19 and who now are supporting the push to frame China, are pushing for a world “that combines the worst aspects of the US – corrupt corporate capitalism – with the worst aspects of Chinese society: explicit authoritarianism.”

“The pandemic, it can hardly be ignored, helped isolate people from one another, helped restrict borders, was an excuse for massive civil liberties restrictions – all things useful to the World Economic Forum’s ‘Great Reset’ agenda,” said Husseini. “This is another reason that intentional release should be seriously examined.”

Husseini said he prefers the term “lab origin theory” over “lab leak theory.”

“I see no good reason to make assumptions,” Husseini said. “‘Leak’ assumes a mistake. It could have been a mistake, but why presume it?”

Boyle adopted a similar view, although he noted that the language of the Covid-19 Origin Act does not mention either term.

“It does not refer to a lab leak,” he said. “It doesn’t say ‘leak’ at all. It says ‘originated at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.’ Obviously, there could be different interpretations of why it originated there. I still believe it was a leak, but this does leave open why it might have originated there.”

Boyle reiterated his longstanding belief that “Covid-19 is an offensive biological warfare weapon with gain-of-function properties” and called for the halting of gain-of-function research.

According to Boyle, who drafted the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989, Congress’ reluctance to declassify documents that may implicate US government entities in the origins of Covid-19 is reflective of the massive amounts of federal money spent on biological weapons research.

“They’re not doing that because the US government agencies and scientists involved in the development of Covid-19 [have received] massive sums of money,” Boyle said. “We’ve been devoted to developing offensive biological warfare programmes since after September 11, 2001 … I’ve been speaking out about this publicly for years.”

Husseini told The Defender, “Biowarfare is a deniable weapon, which makes disclosure of documents key. Another reason why the Hawley bill limiting disclosure may well signal a massive coverup in plain sight.”

In a pair of tweets on Sunday, British Member of Parliament Andrew Bridgen said he received information from US government sources indicating that the US Department of Defence and the Fort Detrick research facility “were responsible for both the virus and the vaccines” and that “criminal proceedings” may follow.

He tweeted, “I can confirm that during my visit to Washington DC last Christmas/ New Year I was informed that the US DoD were responsible for both the virus and the vaccines. Fort Detrick was named. Also, a facility in Canada.”

Bridgen did not clarify which sources provided him with this information or who might face such criminal proceedings. At the March 8 Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic hearing, former director of the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention Dr Robert Redfield said Covid-19 was “engineered” and blamed gain-of-function research for “the greatest pandemic our world has seen.”

However, Redfield stopped short of explicitly calling for a full ban on such activities, calling instead for a moratorium.

Boyle told The Defender, “All this gain-of-function so-called ‘research’ has to be terminated immediately with legislation by Congress … The only way to protect ourselves is to terminate it immediately. No moratorium.”

“There was a moratorium” during the Barack Obama presidency, said Boyle, “and Fauci undermined the moratorium by outsourcing the work through the EcoHealth Alliance to the Wuhan BSL4 [laboratory]. So, a moratorium is worthless. We have to terminate all gain-of-function research everywhere. It has to be prohibited, to be made criminal.”

The Defender reached out to the offices of Hawley and Braun, Turner and Bridgen for comment, but did not receive a response as of press time.

  • A Tell / The Defender report / By Michael Nevradakis, a senior reporter for The Defender and part of the rotation of hosts for CHD.TV’s “Good Morning CHD.”
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