Paul calls for declassification of documents showing COVID came from Chinese lab

Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky), a senior member of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, says the Biden administration should declassify classified documents showing Energy Department scientists believe COVID-19 leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China .

“Secret documents leaked (should be declassified!) showing DOE scientists believe COVID leaked from Wuhan lab,” Paul tweeted on Monday, circulating a Wall Street Journal op-ed published over the weekend in which The Department of Energy has reportedly concluded that the COVID pandemic was likely due to a leak from a lab.

The magazine reported that the Energy Department concluded that the pandemic was due to an accident in a Chinese laboratory based on new data. This is in line with the FBI’s conclusion from a 2021 analysis that the pandemic resulted from a leak from a laboratory. The Department of Energy study reportedly offered a conclusion with low level of trust.

The US intelligence community is divided in its opinion that the deadly virus leaked from a Chinese laboratory. Four other federal agencies believe the virus likely passed to humans from an animal host outside the lab. These conclusions are also reported to be of low certainty.

The Central Intelligence Agency has not concluded whether the virus originated in a laboratory or naturally from another animal host.

Paul is not the only US senator who insists on seeing the intelligence and making it public.

Senator Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) said Sunday he will introduce legislation to declassify intelligence about the likely origin of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has caused more than 1 million deaths in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“The American people deserve the full truth about the origins of #COVID. No more whitewash. I will re-introduce legislation to make U.S. government intelligence reports on COVID more open to the public,” Hawley tweeted.

The magazine reported that the Department of Energy and the FBI concluded that the pandemic began with a leak from the laboratory for different reasons. The Central Intelligence Agency has not concluded whether the virus originated in a laboratory or naturally from another animal host.

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Wuhan, located about 500 miles west of Shanghai, is home to the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the Wuhan Institute of Biological Products.

Chinese authorities in 2021 refused to cooperate with World Health Organization efforts to investigate the possibility of a COVID-19 leak from a laboratory.

Zeng Yixin, vice minister of China’s National Health Commission, dismissed the possibility that COVID-19 originated in a Chinese laboratory.

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