The Answer to Whodunit

Colonel Mustard with revolver image found here

Suppose you had a murder take place, and you want to know "Whodunnit" (who done it). You gather a whole lot of evidence, and nearly all of it points to a particular perpetrator: Colonel Mustard in the conservatory with the revolver, say. But what you don’t have is Colonel Mustard coming out and verifying your findings. He’s not willing to show you evidence that it was him; he’s not even showing you evidence that would give him an alibi. As the detective, do you make an arrest and bring forth the case, or do you shrug your shoulders and say, “Well, I guess we’ll never know for certain, because he’s not giving us the final proof"? In just about any crime novel—as well as any real life case—you bring forth the overwhelming evidence you’ve got and see if it convinces a jury beyond reasonable doubt.

For reasons that we can only speculate about, the intelligence community—that mixture of three-letter agencies involved in gathering information and figuring out what’s happening in the world—can’t seem to tell us basic things like where the COVID-19 pandemic started. Despite all the evidence.

A couple of major pieces of information came out this week. One was a Congressional hearing, in the now-GOP-led House. Another was a committee report from a Senate investigation. Both say approximately the same thing: this was a virus created in a lab in Wuhan, China, where gain-of-function in viruses were being worked on, and that leaked from that lab.

Here is what former DNI John Ratcliffe said in his opening statement at the hearing, in its entirety, because this about says it all (I got it from a Robert Gouveia video; the link is queued up to where he starts speaking; Gouveia makes some good commentary here and there):

It’s a pleasure for me to be back in the House of Representatives, where I spent six years serving on the House Intelligence, Judiciary, and Homeland Security committees before leaving Congress when I was confirmed by the Senate to serve as the Director of National Intelligence in the Trump administration.

My confirmation was actually the first in-person Senate hearing after the COVID-19 pandemic began, and during it I promised to ensure that the intelligence community would be laser focused on getting answers to the virus’s origins and spread.

What follows is a brief unclassified overview of what the intelligence community learned and knows, a synopsis of the relevant challenges that I encountered during this effort, and where I believe we must go from here.

First, let me state the bottom line up front. 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 common sense.

From a view inside the IC [intelligence community], if our intelligence and evidence supporting a lab leak theory was placed side by side with our intelligence and evidence pointing to a natural origin or spillover theory, the lab leak side of the ledger would be long, convincing, even overwhelming, while the spillover side would be nearly empty and tenuous. Were this a trial, a preponderance of circumstantial evidence provided by our intelligence would compel a jury finding of guilt to an accusation that coronavirus research in the Wuhan labs was responsible for the pandemic. And likewise, the Chinese Community Party would be guilty of going to great lengths to cover up the virus’s origins—from destroying medical tests, samples, and data to intimidating and disappearing witnesses and journalists, to lying and coercing global health authorities, even spreading propaganda that the virus originated here in the United States by the US military.

Their efforts continue to this day, as the Chinese Embassy has formally objected to this hearing and this committee’s efforts to ascertain the truth. And the Chinese government has done all of this while proving itself incapable of offering even a shred of exculpatory evidence.

The intelligence community’s sources on this issue are numerous, diverse, and unassailable. And I hope that the recent unanimous Congressional ??? to require the declassification of our COVID origins material will make some of this available to you and the American people.

Right now, a few of the intelligence community’s agencies are publicly assessing that the COVID-19 virus originated from a lab leak in Wuhan. And as this shift continues, the day will come when every single agency in the IC will make the same assessment. Which begs the question: Why have they not? It’s a simple and obvious question that does not have a simple answer.

The challenges that I and other senior Trump administration officials encountered while in office included legitimate concerns about our closely held sources and methods of intelligence, as well as illegitimate roadblocks that related to professional conflicts of interest and partisan politics. These included the headwinds created when a lab leak assessment was initially labeled falsely and falsely reported with near unanimity as a conspiracy theory by conflicted science, scientists, and by mainstream press, while also being censored as disinformation by social media giants.

Internally, national and electoral politics were also influencing the analysis of our intelligence on China within the IC, as reflected in the January 6, 2021, report by the intelligence community’s analytic ombudsman. As a career non-political official, the ombudsman found, “Analysts appeared reluctant to have their analysis on China brought forward, because they tend to disagree with the Trump administration’s policies, saying in effect, ‘I don’t want our intelligence used to support those policies.’”

To this day, the CIA, which I believe is unquestionably the world’s premiere spy agency, with an unrivaled capacity to acquire information, has continued to state that it does not have enough information to make any formal assessment. To put it bluntly, I think this is unjustifiable and a reflection, not that the agency can’t make an assessment with any confidence, but that it won’t.

Some three and a half years later, the only plausible assessment the agency could make with any level of confidence is that a virus which killed over a million Americans originated in a Chinese lab whose research included work for the Chinese military. And such an assessment would obviously have enormous geopolitical implications that I believe the current administration does not want to face.

Let me close by saying that I think that the search for the truth should drive where we go from here. And everyone, from our intelligence agencies to members of the administration to members of Congress, to public health officials, should put politics aside and let our intelligence speak the truth about what happened—speak the truth to the Americans, who deserve that truth, deserve justice, and deserve accountability. And only by seeking truth, justice, and accountability for this pandemic can we achieve the other equally important goal of preventing the next pandemic.

Former DNI John Ratcliffe, at House investigation hearing,
screenshot from here

He goes on to answer questions, but that will do for now. The other main information source this week was the Senate special committee’s Muddy Waters: The Origins of Covid-19 Report. For a little light reading, you can find the 21-page executive summary here.  And for the full 300-page report, go here. 

Dr. John Campbell goes over the report, in his usual calm and businesslike style, highlighting the details without too much commentary, which has allowed him to report things without getting banned on YouTube through the duration.

By the way, he’s willing to say he believes the leak was unintentional, and that the coverup has mainly to do with the Chinese desire to save face. He doesn’t think they would have leaked it on purpose, allowing the world to see them in a bad light. The Muddy Waters report also calls it unintentional: “The preponderance of circumstantial evidence supports an unintentional research-related incident.” I haven’t read the totality yet, but there’s the additional behavior of the Chinese allowing travel in and out of Wuhan—but not allowing travel into the rest of the country—causing the spread to the rest of the world. It also appears that the infection began to spread at least a month before originally reported.

Another interesting Dr. Campbell video this week related to a German report on the weird fibrous clots being found in corpses in the last couple of years. They have traced them to the vaccine and ruled out the virus as a cause.

There’s more. On Wednesday, Judicial Watch said it has received documents showing that the NIH granted funding “for experiments at the Wuhan Institute of Virology that sought to create mutant coronavirus variants.” Just the News story here. You can find the 552 pages of documents here. 

The details and documentation are mounting. But these are things we “knew” early on. That is, we had enough evidence to suppose we knew. The documentary Tracking Down the Origin of Wuhan Coronavirus, done by Epoch Times reporter Joshua Philipp in April 2020, lays out the case for the lab leak and hasn’t been refuted.

What seems puzzling is why it isn’t obvious to more people—regardless of the media and political lies. There’s a good discussion of this (on American Though Leaders with Jan Jekielek for EpochTV) by Debbie Lerman, a self-described “socialist liberal Democrat,” who saw the falsehoods pretty much from the beginning, by reading the research and asking questions. Her friends refused to even allow her to ask questions without the accusation that she was suddenly a MAGA Trump supporter.

She refers to four things that had to be aligned for the deceptive story to spread: “panic, politics, propaganda and profits, the four P’s.” She walks us through those four, and how they each played out.

Debbie Lerman, screenshot from here

I wondered how those would compare to the four things that played into mass formation, described by Mattias Desmet:

1.       a lot of people experiencing a lack of social bonds, a lack of social connectedness.

2.       a lot of people who experience a lack of meaning making.

3.       a lot of people who experience a lot of free-floating anxiety.

4.       a lot of free-floating frustration and aggression.

It seems to me, his four things had to be in place for the four P’s of Lerman to play out. Because we had a lot of people lacking social bonds and meaning making, with anxiety and frustration, then the perpetrators of the pandemic mass formation were able to cause the panic, tie it to politics, control the message with censorship, and allow profits to flow in.

Speaking of profits, the 4^th “P,” the WHO, one of the perpetrators of the deception, is attempting to amend its treaty of 2005. Not good. (Another good Dr. John Campbell video about this here.) It is to give them greater unaccountable power over all the nations of the earth. Supposedly they are supported by funding from the various nations. But right now two of the top donors, one of which is the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, combine to be the highest donor. And donors get to say what the WHO policies will be. After the manipulations we’ve been through in the last few years, this absolutely must not happen.

So, we have more information. And truth is powerful. It eventually wins. We can hope that, as people wake up from the mass formation, or deception, we can provide them with a huge supply of truth. Other than succumbing to the tyranny, it’s the only way to get through such times.