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On the recordApril 17, 2023
the intelligence certainly points to lab leak as the most plausible assessment, the only one supported by intelligence, science, and common sense at this point.
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John Ratcliffe
Republican · Texas

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Ratcliffe asserts that evidence supports the lab leak theory over natural origins.

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