Former U.S. Deputy National Security Adviser Matt Pottinger on Sunday (Feb. 21) condemned the Chinese Communist Party for concealing the Epidemic while also revealing that the Chinese military conducted secret animal experiments at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and that circumstantial evidence suggests that the virus may have been caused by human error.
In an interview with the CBS News program “Face the Nation” on Sunday, Bo Ming referred to a fact-check released by the State Department on Jan. 15 about the actions of the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The fact check said the U.S. does not yet know the origin of the virus. The virus may have arisen naturally from human contact with infected animals, but it could also have come as a result of a laboratory accident.
Booming: virus could have originated from human error
“We’ve seen (lab) accidents happen in recent years, including at some of the most well-known labs in China. 2004 saw an outbreak of the SARS virus they were working on at the Time. That was a deadly outbreak that infected nine people.” Bomin said.
He added that only circumstantial evidence can be weighed at this point, as there is no hard evidence. It’s the Chinese Communist government that makes it very difficult for outsiders to be able to get hard evidence.
But if you weigh the circumstantial evidence, he said, one of the explanations is that this (the virus) was caused by some kind of human error. And that explanation far outweighs the notion that the outbreak was some sort of natural outbreak.
Bomen added that the State Department raised a number of questions in its fact-checking statement, and the U.S. hopes that WHO-affiliated investigators will look into those questions in China, and also that journalists will look into it, and that the Chinese (Communist) government will come clean (with the facts), “even though we’re not hopeful.”
He added, “Some of the things that need to be cleared up include the fact that we have very strong reasons to believe that the Chinese (Communist Party) military is doing secret classified animal experiments in the same lab (Wuhan Institute of Virus Research) going back to at least 2017.”
“We have good reason to believe that researchers working at the Wuhan Institute for Virus Research had an outbreak of flu-like illness in the fall of 2019, which occurred just before the first documented case (of the CCP virus) came to light. We also know that they were working on viruses, doing “gain of function” studies, technical virus experiments, including one found in the southwestern province of Yunnan, most similar to the COVID virus that we all now know. So, we disclosed a lot of clues in our fact-checking.”
He added that he saw no evidence that the WHO investigation team to China was able to get any relevant information on these issues. They weren’t even able to come up with answers to any of those questions.
Booming: allegations in State Department fact check not made hastily
The moderator asked the question that you have reason to believe that a disease similar to COVID is spreading in China as early as the fall of 2019. Is there evidence to support this?
Bomen replied that yes, the State Department’s fact check was a very carefully crafted statement. It was carefully crafted to avoid overstating the case that was made in the statement. It was read by every branch of the State Department before it was published, and it was scrutinized by national security personnel, intelligence personnel, and Department of health and Human Services personnel. Therefore, what is listed in the statement is not a series of hasty allegations.
Bomen also said that while there is no evidence that this was a deliberate “planting” of the virus pandemic. But the research conducted by both civilian researchers at Wuhan University of Engineering and military researchers with close ties to it was on a virus that is 96 percent similar to the Chinese Communist virus. For example, they are using humanized mice to do “acquisition of gene function” studies. That is, the mice have been genetically modified to express human-like characteristics, such as human lung tissue, and the virus is introduced into the humanized mice, and then the dynamics of the virus and its risks are studied. Doing this research likely led to some sort of accident that sowed the seeds for the COVID pandemic, which has now killed more than 2 million people.
The State Department fact-checking supervisor urged a review of three elements regarding the origin of the virus
The first is to investigate the Wuhan Institute for Virus Research (WIV) insiders who contracted the disease. They became ill in the fall of 2019, which was before the first confirmed cases of the CCP virus, with symptoms consistent with COVID-19 and common seasonal diseases.
Second, research from the Wuhan Institute of Virus Research should be investigated. Since at least 2016, Wuhan Institute of Virus researchers have conducted experiments involving RaTG13 and showed no signs of stopping before the COVID-19 outbreak; RaTG13 is the bat coronavirus identified by WIV in January 2020 as the closest to SARS-CoV-2 (96.2% similar). After the SARS outbreak in 2003, WIV became the focus of international coronavirus research and has been studied in animals including mice, bats, and pangolins since then.
Third, the clandestine military activities of WIV should be investigated. Although WIV resembles a civilian agency by appearance, the United States has determined that WIV collaborates with the Chinese (Communist) military on publications and covert projects. Since 2017, WIV has been conducting classified research on behalf of the Chinese (CCP) military, including animal testing in laboratories.
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