Should The CIA Know If China Lied On Covid-19?

US intelligence officials are investigating the theory that the coronavirus may have escaped from a Wuhan laboratory. Credit: CIA

Asia Times: CIA should know if China lied on Covid-19

But it wouldn't be the first time the dysfunctional US intelligence agency has been blindsided when it matters most.

Washington blames Beijing for the coronavirus. Beijing denies it and claims the virus was brewed up elsewhere, maybe in America. It’s a “he said, she said” sort of dispute.

The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has reportedly been ordered to find out where the Covid-19 virus came from and whether Chinese leaders purposely seeded the infection around the world.

It is good the CIA is on the job, but shouldn’t it already know the answers? That is the CIA’s job after all – to know what’s going on in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and what President Xi Jinping and the Communist Party of China leadership are thinking and doing.

Presumably the CIA prioritizes China over, say, Slovenia. It could, of course, be that Langley already has the intelligence and that the Donald Trump administration is masterfully feigning ignorance.

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WNU Editor:  US Intelligence agency has already made it public that they do not trust China when it comes to Covid-19 .... U.S. Intelligence: China Deliberately Lying About Covid-19 Coronavirus Figures (April 1, 2020).

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