The new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, says a Biden administration report concluding that a lab leak likely caused the COVID pandemic was released to show transparency and restore faith in government intelligence agencies.
Three days after being confirmed by the Senate, Ratcliffe spoke of a report that resulted from his predecessor, William Burns, who asked agency analysts and scientists to make a clear determination about how the pandemic started.
The report, which Ratcliffe released Saturday, concluded that the “CIA assessed 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.”
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