I follow a lot of unclass and open source material put out by the intelligence community and the people that used to work in that arena. Nearly all of them are hawkish and civilian and served in Democratic administrations. What Trump referred to as the Deep State.
Linked below is a very interesting podcast released this week hosted by Michael Morrell, who was acting CIA Director under Obama and was odds on favorite to be the Director for Biden but didn’t get it. He has a guest on who is the epitome of apolitical nerd scientist.
If you’ve ever distrusted the official CCP account that the virus crossed over from bats, but your center-left voting habits preventing you from adopting the Trump Administrations releases on Chinese involvement, this is a must listen. It’s about 40 minutes. If you listen with an open mind and still believe it’s an open and shut case that this thing came from bats because American scientists with a bunch of Chinese ties say so on the news, well, I pray for you.
The pod is about as apolitical and foreign threat oriented as you can get from true professionals.
Interesting revelations I did not know that might explain Democratic insistence that it was bats from 1000 miles away in a wet market next to a virus experiment lab that really caused CoVid:
1. The Obama Administration authorized grants for research in this area. Then prohibited certain types of testing that presented unreasonable risks. However the grants had already been given, so the academics partnered with China where the funds could be spent using the methods prohibited in the USA ... in Wuhan.
2. The Independent Commission put together by the WHO to investigate this matter is independent of the WHO, but works in partnership with the Chinese Government, who refuses to investigate several potential causes including accidental leak, but will investigate possible release from imported American frozen food. So it’s not really independent.
Anyhoo, it’s a good listen, if for no other reason than it forecasts a coming schism in the official narrative from the American left how this happened. Six months ago, anybody on this board saying it wasn’t from animals was called a nut. Now that Trump is out of office and no longer a threat to start a trade war or actual war, there appears to be a segment of the Democratic Party actually interested in the truth about how 3 million people died.
The pod is weekly and also available on iTunes. It is highly entertaining and enlightening as you form your own conclusions.
In this episode of Intelligence Matters, Michael Morell speaks with Jamie Metzl, geopolitical expert and technology futurist, who argues for transparency and access to resources from China in order to find the origins of COVID-19. Metzl believes the most likely origin of COVID-19 is a lab leak...
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