Florida Senator Rick Scott joined Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) and 17 other senators, on sending a follow-up letter to William J. Burns, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), requesting information on a previous request regarding whistleblower allegations on the Coronavirus Pandemic and House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence regarding the CIA’s investigation into the origins of COVID-19.
According to the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic (Select Subcommittee) and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), a multi-decade, senior-level, current Agency officer has come forward to provide information to the [Select Subcommittee and HPSCI] about the Agency’s investigation into the origins of COVID-19.
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According to the whistleblower, the Agency assigned seven officers to the COVID Discovery Team (Team).
The team was made up of multidisciplinary and experienced officers with extensive scientific knowledge. According to the whistleblower, six of the seven members of the Team concluded that the intelligence and science were sufficient to make a low-confidence assessment that COVID-19 originated in a laboratory in Wuhan, China.
The seventh member of the Team, who also happened to be the most senior, was the only officer who believed COVID-19 originated from zoonosis.
“These allegations raise serious questions about the Agency’s investigation of the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in light of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence June 2023 unclassified report stating that CIA remained ‘unable to determine the precise origin of the COVID-19 pandemic,’” the Senators wrote. “The Agency’s refusal to cooperate with requests for information by members of the Senate regarding whistleblower allegations is unacceptable. The CIA has an obligation to be responsive to congressional oversight requests by all members of the Senate regardless of what committees they are assigned to.”
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For this reason, the Senators are reiterating the following requests for information:
- All documents and communications regarding the establishment of all iterations of the COVID Discovery Team(s);
- All documents and communications between or among the members of all iterations of the COVID Discovery Team(s) regarding the origins of COVID-19;
- All documents and communications between or among members of all iterations of the COVID Discovery Team(s) and other employees or contractors of the Agency regarding the origins of COVID-19;
- All documents and communications between or among members of all iterations of the COVID Discovery Team(s) and employees or contractors of other federal government agencies, including but not limited to the U.S. Department of State, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (to include the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases), and the U.S. Department of Energy regarding the origins of COVID-19; and
- All documents and communications relating to any conclusions of the COVID Discovery Team(s) and subsequent revision of such conclusions.
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