Biden orders US Secret Service to declassify ALL documents on COVID origins and all links to Wuhan lab
Joe Biden signed new law Monday that could shed light on the links between the coronavirus pandemic and a lab in Wuhan, China, where it originated.
The move requires all US intelligence related to this connection and the origins of COVID-19 to be declassified.
“We need to get to the bottom of the origins of Covid-19,” Biden wrote in a statement. He noted that any published material should also contain “potential links to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”
“In implementing this legislation, my government will release and share as much of this information as possible,” he added.
President Joe Biden signed legislation on Monday requiring the US Secret Service to declassify all materials related to the origins of COVID-19 – including possible links to the notorious laboratory in Wuhan, China
The bill passed unanimously in the House and Senate before being sent to the White House.
Biden’s signature now directs Avril Haines, the director of national intelligence, to release all information gathered by US intelligence agencies related to the origins of the COVID-19 virus.
The debate in Washington, DC that China deliberately let the virus escape from a Wuhan lab has recently been reignited. The Wall Street Journal reported last month that the Department of Energy assessed – albeit with low confidence – that the pandemic likely stemmed from the alleged Chinese lab leak.
Beijing disputes this assessment.
The President claims he believes in Congress’ goal of making available as much information as possible about where and how the coronavirus pandemic originated.
However, he claimed that national security risks have yet to be assessed when it comes to what his government decides to release to the public.
“In implementing this legislation, my administration will release and share as much of this information as possible, consistent with my constitutional authority to protect against disclosure of information that would harm national security,” Biden said in a statement on the release.