Any time you have these types of "assessments" (like we had with the Trump "russia collusion" narrative i.e. "all 17 intelligence agencies have a consensus on XYZ") then it is fair, easy to conclude that this is a whitewash, narrative setting exercise to meet political objectives of the regime in D.C. For one, other than the CIA, NSA and NRO/GIA very few of the other "17 agencies" of the IC have any business collecting foreign intelligence related to either "Russia collusion of a POTUS candidate" or "origins of a virus". Among the IC - we have agencies like the U.S. Coast Guard, DEA etc who have no business, charter, mandate meddling in such collection and running sources or leveraging methods.Amber G. wrote:Meanwhile "Our efforts to understand the origins of this pandemic will not rest," says
US President Biden in a statement after receiving classified intelligence review of COVID19 origins.
Statement by President Joe Biden on the Investigation into the Origins of COVID-19
Here is - unclassified version from ODNI*** UNCLASSIFIED ***
Key Takeaways:
One IC element assesses with moderate confidence that the first human infection with SARS-CoV-2 most likely was the result of a laboratory-associated incident, probably involving experimentation, animal handling, or sampling by the Wuhan Institute of Virology. These analysts give weight to the inherently risky nature of work on coronaviruses.
Analysts at three IC elements remain unable to coalesce around either explanation without additional information, with some analysts favoring natural origin, others a laboratory origin, and some seeing the hypotheses as equally likely.
The only one I would trust (in fact its assessment should be declassified so the entire world can come to their own conclusion) is the the one IC element that has "moderate confidence" that it came from a lab leak. I guess it is either the CIA or the NSA the only two agencies that probably have the sources and methods & might have meaningful intelligence in this case to make a determination. Most of the other "IC element" reference is just flatulent noise.