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JUST IN: Biden Admin Broke Federal Law To Hide Stunning New Report
When former President Joe Biden took office in January of 2021, he pledged in his first official address to “heal a broken land” devastated after one year living under the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, his administration quietly shelved a report on the earliest outbreaks of the virus.
Several American service members may have contracted the original coronavirus strain in 2019 while traveling to Wuhan, according to a report the Biden administration presented to lawmakers but not the public. The report, which was commissioned in 2022, was ordered by Congress to be made “publicly available on an internet website in a searchable format” but this was apparently never done.
The bombshell revelation came when Trump administration officials quietly uploaded the contents of the report to a U.S. Department of Defense website, sparking outcries about whether the U.S. government was hiding additional information that may have shed light on the origins of the pandemic, which killed more than one million Americans.
American participants in the Wuhan World Military Games appeared to have contracted COVID-19 during the tournament, and their illness was a closely guarded secret at the DOD, according to the Washington Free Beacon. The 2022 National Defense Authorization Act instructed the Biden administration to disclose the contents of the report to the public; however, the two-page document was only shared with the House and Senate Armed Services Committees in December of 2022.
The report’s information contradicts President Biden’s former national security advisor, John Kirby, who told the Washington Post in 2021 that the military had “no knowledge” of COVID-19 illnesses among service members who participated in the games. In June 2020, the Trump administration told another media outlet that participants were not screened for COVID-19 because they attended the competition “prior to the reported outbreak.”
The Beacon reports that the Wuhan World Military Games were held in close proximity to the virology lab where gain-of-function research was performed on coronavirus strains to maximize their potential for infection. The research, which was funded in part by U.S. sources affiliated with the National Institutes of Health, is suspected of being the origin of the outbreak, U.S. intelligence officials now believe.
Symptoms among the afflicted included respiratory infections and no “statistically significant difference” between Covid-like cases at the military bases those soldiers were stationed at compared to those without them, according to the outlet. The seven infected individuals recovered within a week.
Rutgers University professor of chemical biology Richard Ebright said he was appalled to learn that the Biden administration may have had a hand in undermining U.S. investigations into the Wuhan outbreak.
“It is an outrage that the Biden White House and the 118th Congress Senate and House Armed Services Committees did not publicly release this information when it became available in 2022, but, instead, withheld this information for the duration of their terms,” Ebright told the Free Beacon.
“This new information strengthens U.S. and allied intelligence data indicating that COVID-19 was circulating in Wuhan in October-November 2019, U.S. and allied intelligence data indicating that researchers working with genetically enhanced SARS viruses at Wuhan Institute of Virology contracted COVID-19 in October-November 2019, and phylogenomic data indicating that the virus that causes COVID-19 entered humans in July-November 2019.”
U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) echoed those concerns, saying the new report casts further doubt on the initial theory that COVID-19 originated at a wet market in a Chinese city.
“Taxpayers deserve to know the truth about COVID-19 origins, but the Biden administration concealed this information from the American people for years,” Ernst told the Free Beacon. “This report should have been made public immediately and not restricted to Washington insiders. If Americans visiting Wuhan were potentially infected with the COVID-19 virus in October 2019, those claiming the pandemic began in a wet market just two months later would be completely off base.”
