To this day, the CIA, unquestionably the world's premier spy agency, with an unrivaled capacity to acquire information and near limitless resources to do so, has continued to state that it does not have enough information to make any formal assessment. To put it bluntly, this is unjustifiable and a reflection, not that the Agency cannot make an assessment with any confidence, but that it won't.
Ratcliffe criticizes the CIA for not assessing COVID-19's origins despite available intelligence.
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I would submit to you that if this took place, they have the answers to that.
The challenges that I and other senior Trump Administration officials encountered while in office include legitimate concerns about the closely held sources of our intelligence and the sensitive methods used to obtain it, as well as…
I think this is a matter of won't, not can't. And I think that, you know, that is unjustifiable when we are talking about a million Americans dead and as many as 10 or 15 million worldwide.
the most likely origin of this was a lab leak, and I think that, you know, unfortunately, for political reasons and political narratives, it was difficult.
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