Senators Call for Declassifying Assessment That COVID-19 Likely Came From Chinese Lab
U.S. senators are calling for President Joe Biden’s administration to declassify materials regarding the origins of COVID-19.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) wrote on Twitter that documents described in a Wall Street Journal report “should be declassified.”
“President Biden needs to declassify everything we know today,” Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.) added.
According to the report, the U.S. Energy Department is assessing that the pandemic likely started from a Wuhan laboratory leak.
The assessment was described in a document authored by the office of Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, a Biden appointee, the Journal reported.
The Energy Department, the White House, and Haines’s office didn’t respond to requests for comment….