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According to “the dominant view” of the American intelligence community, the presence of the Wuhan Virology Institute in the town where the Covid virus originated was just a big coincidence. That’s how I would paraphrase this paragraph from the Wall Street Journal “Exclusive” “Behind Closed Doors: The Spy-World Scientists Who Argued Covid Was a Lab Leak.” The Journal reports:

The dominant view within the intelligence community was clear when Avril Haines, the director of national intelligence, and a couple of her senior analysts, briefed Biden and his top aides on Aug. 24. The National Intelligence Council, a body of senior intelligence officers who reported to Haines and that organized the intelligence review, had concluded with “low confidence” that Covid-19 had emerged when the virus leapt from an animal to a human. So did four intelligence agencies.

That left the FBI hanging on a limb:

At the time, the FBI was the only agency that concluded a lab leak was likely, a judgment it had rendered with ‘moderate confidence.”

I assess with a high level of confidence that our intelligence community badly needs to be shaken and stirred.

I wonder if Journal reporters Michael Gordon and Warren Strobel are entirely reliable narrators:

Frustrated by China’s stonewalling, President Biden had ordered an urgent assessment by the U.S. intelligence agencies and national laboratories on whether the virus had leapt from an animal to a human or had escaped from a Chinese lab that had been doing extensive work on coronaviruses.

Biden appears more to be in China’s pocket rather than frustrated by China’s stonewalling, but it should have been hard to miss the centrality of the WIV. Senator Tom Cotton was on the case in February 2020 (video below).

The New York Times, however, castigated Senator Cotton for retailing a “conspiracy theory [that] lacks evidence and has been dismissed by scientists.” Senator Cotton’s observations have stood the test of time. The Times’s, not so much.

The New York Post extracts the newsworthy details from the Journal’s paywall-protected story in “Spy bosses ‘silenced’ Defense Department, FBI scientists from briefing Biden on COVID lab leak evidence.”