WASHINGTON — Today, a CIA whistleblower testified before the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee (HSGAC) about the intelligence community’s handling of information related to the origins of COVID-19. In January 2023, Senator Hawley’s legislation to declassify any and all” information related to COVID’s origins—including information that would substantiate the lab leak hypothesis—passed Congress unanimously and was signed into law. Today’s whistleblower testified that the Biden administration intentionally ignored that law and refused to provide Congress and the American people with the truth about COVID.
The whistleblower, who worked in the intelligence community during COVID, toldthe Committee that the Biden Administration amassed thousands of pages of information on the origins of the pandemic. Yet despite their obligation under the law, they “decided to write a different paper,” providing a mere five pages of heavily redacted, non-substantive information.
When Senator Hawley asked if the Biden Administration’s claim that “nothing was researched at the Wuhan Lab that could plausibly be a progenitor of SARS Covid” and that “there is no evidence of any research related incident involving Wuhan employees that might have been related to the pandemic” were true, the whistleblower said, “They’re not true.”
Senator Hawley concluded, “The United States government first deliberately violated a law passed by Congress, signed by the president, that ordered them to release all information related to the Wuhan lab. Number one. Number two, they then violated the law again by withholding thousands and thousands of pages that they had at the time and knew were covered by the law Number three, the conclusion, so-called, they released to the public are false. If that is not a cover-up, I don’t know what is.”
Watch the full exchange here.