The GOP House Intelligence Committee Chairman is critiquing the Trump CIA director's review of the Intelligence Community's assessment on Russian meddling in the 2016 election. And the CIA is pushing ...

A declassified CIA memo released Wednesday challenges the work intelligence agencies did to conclude that Russia interfered ...

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Jan. 29—WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congressman August Pfluger (TX-11) released a statement in response to the newly declassified CIA analysis on the origins of COVID-19 favoring the lab leak theory.

The political backdrop Only one day before the CIA’s statement, the agency’s just-sworn-in director, John Ratcliffe, signalled that a new position on the origins of COVID-19 was coming.

The CIA on Saturday said it believes the virus came from a Chinese lab. The new assessment, though it was made with low confidence, dumped new fuel on the debate over the origins of COVID-19.

CIA continues to assess that both research-related and natural origin scenarios of the COVID-19 pandemic remain plausible," a spokesperson for the agency said in a statement, noting they "will ...

COVID-19 virus likely originated from lab leak, CIA says The newly appointed CIA chief, John Ratcliffe, noted last week that one of his priorities would be assessing the origins of the pandemic.

Recommended Stories The “CIA continues to assess that both research-related and natural origin scenarios of the COVID-19 pandemic remain plausible”, a spokesperson said on Saturday.