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CIA assesses with low confidence that a research-related origin of the COVID-19 pandemic is more likely than a natural origin based on the available body of reporting. CIA continues to assess that both research-related and natural origin scenarios of the COVID-19 pandemic remain plausible,
a spokesperson for the agency said in a statement, noting Now, the most important thing is to make China pay for unleashing a plague on the world,
Cotton said in a statement The lab leak is the only theory supported by science, intelligence, and common sense,
We firmly oppose the politicization and stigmatization of the source of the virus, and once again call on everyone to respect science and stay away from conspiracy theories,
embassy spokesperson Liu Pengyu said in a statement emailed to The Associated Press We have low confidence in this judgement and will continue to evaluate any available credible new intelligence reporting or open-source information that could change CIA's assessment,
the CIA said in a statement I had the opportunity on my first day to make public an assessment that actually took place in the Biden administration, so it can't be accused of being political, and the CIA has assessed that the most likely cause of this pandemic that has wrought so much devastation around the world was because of a lab-related incident in Wuhan, so we'll continue to investigate that moving forward,
he told "Sunday Morning Futures" host Maria Bartiromo I think it was important for the American people to see an institution like the CIA get off the sidelines and be truthful about what our intelligence shows and, at the same time, protect us from adversaries like China if they caused or contributed to this,
The agency is going to get off the sidelines,
Ratcliffe, who believes COVID-19 leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology -- told right-wing outlet Breitbart The CIA is the world’s premier spy agency. Its reach is unmatched, its ability to acquire information unrivaled. And yet here we are three-and-a-half years later and there is ample public reporting that the CIA just doesn’t have enough information to make an assessment. This is utter nonsense,
the March 2023 piece says The purpose of the CIA is to protect Americans, to keep us safe from foreign threats and foreign adversaries, but we also need to be truthful with Americans, and he [President Trump] has stressed to me and others that these aren't mutually exclusive missions. We can do both,
Ratcliffe told "Sunday Morning Futures" host Maria Bartiromo I hope you will act accordingly,
Wang told Rubio, according to a Foreign Ministry statement, employing a Chinese phrase typically used by a teacher or a boss warning a student or employee to behave and be responsible for their actions Don’t read the English translation that they put out because the English translation is never right,
The vast preponderance of it said exactly the opposite, said exactly what we’ve concluded, is that most likely, all of the intelligence that we had — circumstantial though it may be — pointed towards this being a research-related incident, not naturally occurring,
Ratcliffe said at the event One of the things that I’ve talked about a lot is addressing the threat from China on a number of fronts, and that goes back to why a million Americans died and why the Central Intelligence Agency has been sitting on the sidelines for five years in not making an assessment about the origins of COVID,
As President Trump deals with [Chinese] President Xi [Jinping], he needs to be armed with the very best intelligence and to be able to talk about China in a way that if they caused or contributed to the death of a million Americans, the president needs to be armed with that,
I’ve been on record, as you know, in saying I think our intelligence, our science, and our common sense all really dictates that the origins of COVID was a leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology,
