The House has unanimously passed a bill that would force the Biden administration to declassify all the intelligence it has gathered on the origins of Covid-19. The bill, proposed by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), now heads to President Joe Biden’s desk to be signed.
The House vote comes in the wake of a Department of Energy report covered by the Wall Street Journal that found the lab leak theory was the most likely scenario for the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The FBI’s statements affirming the lab leak as the most likely origin have lent further credence to the theory.
The vote also comes in the aftermath of hearings in the U.S. House of Representatives held by the Subcommittee on the Covid Pandemic on Tuesday. The Chair of the Subcommittee, Brad Wenstrup, (R-OH), explained why the virus is unlikely to have natural origins.
“Covid-19 has both a binding domain optimized for human cells and a furin cleavage site, or a small part of the virus that makes it so infectious that has never been seen before in a SARS-related virus,” Wenstrup said. “In other words, Covid-19 has unique characteristics that made it very infectious to humans. These have never been seen before in any other viruses of its type.”
After Wenstrup set the stage with the documented facts, lawmakers and witnesses lined up to rip Fauci for misleading the American public.
Former CDC Director Robert Redfield shredded the “Proximal Origins” paper that Fauci had played a hand in.
Rep. Malliotakis: "Do you think that “Proximal Origins” hides the truth?"
Dr. Robert Redfield: "I think it’s an inaccurate paper that basically was part of a narrative that they were creating." pic.twitter.com/Oom8qLezZz
— Becker News (@NewsBecker) March 8, 2023
Redfield told Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) that he was excluded from discussions on the lab leak theory and he believes SARS-CoV-2 was likely created due to gain of function.
BREAKING: Former CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield tells @RepMTG COVID-19 was likely created by gain-of-function research funded by Dr. Fauci and the NIAID.
— ALX 🇺🇸 (@alx) March 8, 2023
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) then laid into Fauci for deceiving the public.
Rep. Jim Jordan rips Fauci for deceiving the American people:
"He was trying to cover his backside, and everybody knows it. This is the highest paid guy in our govt. getting all kinds of money to tell us things that were not accurate. US tax dollars went to a lab in China, a… https://t.co/7UvsIIPIWy pic.twitter.com/TAh4OPzvRG
— Becker News (@NewsBecker) March 8, 2023
“He was trying to cover his backside, and everybody knows it,” Jordan said. “This is the highest paid guy in our govt. getting all kinds of money to tell us things that were not accurate. US tax dollars went to a lab in China, a lab that was not up to code, a lab that was doing gain of function research, and that’s where this thing most definitely came from and Dr. Fauci could not have that news getting out.”
Even FBI Director Wray weighed in.
FBI Director Christopher Wray: “The FBI has long assessed, going all the way back to the summer of 2021, that the origin of the pandemic was likely a lab incident in Wuhan.” pic.twitter.com/bXTxXbQG94
— Becker News (@NewsBecker) March 8, 2023
“The FBI has long assessed, going all the way back to the summer of 2021, that the origin of the pandemic was likely a lab incident in Wuhan,” Wray said.
On Thursday, Dr. Anthony Fauci agreed to testify before Congress on the matter.
BREAKING: Dr. Fauci says he would be willing to testify before @Jim_Jordan’s Committee pic.twitter.com/1ZVzAh89ez
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) March 9, 2023
The declassification of intelligence on Covid origins would likely shed even more light on Fauci’s attempt to steer debate away from the Covid lab leak theory. It will be interesting to see if President Joe Biden, whose son has made millions from CCP-connected business deals, will sign onto the Congress’s effort to get transparency on the Covid origins matter.