Analysis released by new director, John Ratcliffe, suggests the agency believes totality of evidence makes a lab origin

The nuanced finding suggests the agency believes the totality of evidence makes a lab origin more likely than a natural origin. But the agency’s assessment assigns a low degree of confidence to this conclusion, suggesting the evidence is deficient, inconclusive or contradictory.

  • takeheart@lemmy.world
    471·
    4 days ago

    This feels quite politically motivated. Trump appointment aside, the CIA specifically uses the words “low confidence”, so even if they deem it the most likely, it’s still only the most likely from several low confidence options.

    But look at how lawmakers exploit it:

    Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Tom Cotton said he was “pleased” the CIA concluded in the Biden administration’s final days that the lab-leak theory was the most plausible explanation of Covid-19’s origins, and commended Mr Ratcliffe for releasing the conclusion.

    “Now, the most important thing is to make China pay for unleashing a plague on the world,” Mr Cotton, a Republican from Arkansas, said in a statement. BLOOMBERG

    Source: https://www.straitstimes.com/world/united-states/cia-now-favours-lab-leak-theory-to-explain-covid-19-origins

    • Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works
      24·
      4 days ago

      They so obviously all being paid/blackmailed to destroy this country from within.

      Rest in pieces USA, all thanks to republican traitor filth.

    • ShepherdPie@midwest.social
      6·
      4 days ago

      “Now, the most important thing is to make China pay for unleashing a plague on the world,” Mr Cotton, a Republican from Arkansas, said in a statement.

      What plague? I thought the whole thing was made up to “control us” and everyone died of the flu.