Follow Up: CIA Assessment of COVID-19 Pandemic Origins vs. New CIA Director John Ratcliffe
Clarifying the context and distinguishing Ratcliffe's opinion from the agency's assessment under President Biden
This is a follow-up to my evaluation of the CIA’s ‘low confidence’ assessment regarding the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic. I have made several updates since publication, which are in the article itself:
Here’s my understanding of the basic timeline involved with this assessment:1
In the closing weeks of the Biden Administration, the CIA was directed to m…