Intelligence on Wuhan lab shows there’s a cover-up, but it doesn’t show why

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We have no direct evidence of a specific coronavirus quarantine accident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. But there is a cover-up in relation to the laboratory itself. Both concerns should be of interest to us.

President Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo now say there is significant evidence that the laboratory is the source of the outbreak. Others, such as Dr. Anthony Fauci, said there isn’t evidence for that assertion. Trump and Pompeo have access to the most sensitive intelligence that the U.S. government collects. Simply due to his rank and position, Fauci does not.

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