CIA Sued Over COVID-19 Cover-up
The Oversight Project, a government watchdog affiliated with the Heritage Foundation, has taken legal action against the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), filing a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit. The lawsuit aims to force the CIA to disclose records related to its investigation into the origins of COVID-19, following allegations from a whistleblower that analysts were offered financial incentives to alter their conclusions about the virus’s origin.
The Oversight Project initiated its pursuit of CIA records after a whistleblower testified before Congress, claiming that members of the CIA’s COVID Discovery Team were provided monetary incentives to change their stance on the origins of the pandemic.
While the Energy Department and the FBI pointed to a potential lab leak in Wuhan, China, as the likely source, five other agencies suggested a natural transmission or transmission from animals through a wet market. Amidst these conflicting narratives, House investigators in September revealed that a senior-level CIA officer alleged that the agency had offered financial inducements to COVID investigators to alter their conclusions.
Representatives Brad Wenstrup and Mike Turner, chairs of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic and Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, asserted that, according to the whistleblower, a majority of the COVID Discovery Team members believed the evidence supported the assessment that COVID-19 originated in a Wuhan laboratory.
Oversight Project Chief Counsel Kyle Brosnan expressed concern over the lack of transparency from both the CIA and the Biden administration. Brosnan stated, “A CIA whistleblower has made serious allegations that the agency bought off employees to further obstruct efforts to get to the truth of the virus’s origins. This obstruction cannot stand, and we’re fighting in federal court to get to the bottom of this.”
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