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On the recordApril 17, 2023
My informed assessment as a person with as much access as anyone to our government's intelligence during the initial year of the pandemic has been and continues to be that a lab leak is the only explanation credibly supported by our intelligence, by science, and by commonsense.
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John Ratcliffe
Republican · Texas

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Ratcliffe asserts that the lab leak theory is the most credible explanation for the pandemic's origins.

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