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The ABC News article was deemed "not correct": "As a matter of practice the National Center for Medical Intelligence does not comment publicly on specific inte
by lsllc 6y ago
The ABC News article was deemed "not correct":
"As a matter of practice the National Center for Medical Intelligence does not comment publicly on specific intelligence matters. However, in the interest of transparency during this current public health crisis, we can confirm that media reporting about the existence/release of a National Center for Medical Intelligence Coronavirus-related product/assessment in November of 2019 is not correct. No such NCMI product exists," Colonel Dr. R. Shane Day, director of the National Center for Medical Intelligence, said.
Quoted here a few paragraphs down:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/08/politics/intel-agencies-covid-november/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/08/politics/intel-agencies-covid...
- krn 6y agoIt was separately confirmed to be correct two days later by NBC News[1]: > U.S. spy agencies collected raw intelligence hinting at a public health crisis in Wuhan, China, in November, two current and one former U.S. official told NBC News, but the information was not understood as the first warning signs of an impending global pandemic. > On Wednesday night, the Defense Department disputed an ABC News report that an "intelligence report" had warned about the coronavirus in November. > But the current and former officials told NBC News that while no formal assessment was produced in November — and hence no "intelligence product," in the jargon of the spy agencies — there was intelligence that caught the attention of public health analysts and fueled formal assessments that were written in December. [1] https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/u-s-spy-agencies-collected-raw-intel-hinting-public-health-n1180646 https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/u-s-spy-a...