Given a 90-day deadline to share what they know about COVID’s origins, America’s divided intelligence agencies produced a slim report that leaves both major hypotheses on the table—and raises as many questions as it answers. KatherineEban reports:
On Friday evening, five days after a federally mandated deadline, the US government’s Office of the Director of National Intelligence finally acted on itsto “declassify any and all information” regarding the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic and its possible links to a Wuhan laboratory complex.
Many hoped that the declassification exercise would bring new clarity—and maybe even resolution—to the debate. But when the ODNI finally weighed in at 6:25 pm Eastern Time on Friday, one thing seemed clear: the debate, accusations, and investigations will continue, perhaps indefinitely, in scientific papers, Twitter threads, and congressional hearings.
The report may be more notable for what it doesn’t say. It does not shed any light on why the National Intelligence Council and four other intelligence agencies assess that natural exposure to an infected animal is a more likely cause. It does not reveal why the FBI and Department of Energy both see a laboratory incident as more likely, or why they believe so “for different reasons.
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