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New Trump CIA Chief Declassifies Covid ‘Lab Leak’ Assessment
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CIA shifts assessment on Covid origins, saying lab leak likely caused outbreak
CIA Says Covid 'More Likely' To Have Leaked From Lab
The Central Intelligence Agency has shifted its official stance on the origin of Covid-19, saying Saturday that the virus was "more likely" leaked from a Chinese lab than transmitted by animals.
The move is meant to please Trump voters, punish perceived enemies and represents “the most politically saturated security action since the Oppenheimer case in the 1950s.”
The U.S. Senate is expected to hold a confirmation vote on Tuesday on John Ratcliffe, President Donald Trump's nominee for CIA Director, Senate Majority Leader John Thune said.
Republicans kept the Senate working Saturday to install the latest member of Trump’s national security team on a 59-34 vote.
WASHINGTON — The Senate on Thursday confirmed John Ratcliffe as CIA director , President Donald Trump ’s nominee to lead America’s premier spy agency and his second nominee to win Senate approval.
Ratcliffe, 59, is the first person to have served as both director of national intelligence and chief of the CIA.
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