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I love how you are questioning the one piece of factual information that is known with certainty. The CIA did investigate the origin of the virus, as did severa

I love how you are questioning the one piece of factual information that is known with certainty. The CIA did investigate the origin of the virus, as did several other intelligence agencies. There was a report issued by the Director of National Intelligence regarding this and you can read much of it yourself on their website: https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Report-on-Potential-Links-Between-the-Wuhan-Institute-of-Virology-and-the-Origins-of-COVID-19-20230623.pdf https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Report-... If you are actually asking why multiple agencies would investigate this, it seems pretty logical to me: the different agencies have different capabilities, sources and methods that could shed light on a question that could potentially be extremely important to National Security.

mrguyorama 3y ago
This was a question of what the reason was this happened, not doubting that it happened. It feels to me like if the CIA would investigate a food contamination event. Unless there is suspicion of foul play, why? Or does every US agency do cursory investigations on anything just in case their expertise might be needed?
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago
  > if the CIA would investigate a food contamination event If the contamination possibly had a foreign state's fingerprints on it, sure they would.
- shwaj 3y ago
  This is obvious. CIA is the spy agency. Given that China was stonewalling any attempts to learn about what was going on in WIH, it seems natural for the spies to see what they can learn. They likely have access to many internal Chinese communications. Also obviously, this isn’t an investigation on just “anything”. This is about the origin of a global pandemic with millions of lives lost and billions-if-not-trillions of dollars of economic impact. And BTW again your biases show through with your use of the word “cursory”. On what basis do you conclude that the CIA investigation was cursory (or the DoE investigation, etc)? We don’t have access to those reports.

mrguyorama 3y ago

This was a question of what the reason was this happened, not doubting that it happened. It feels to me like if the CIA would investigate a food contamination event. Unless there is suspicion of foul play, why? Or does every US agency do cursory investigations on anything just in case their expertise might be needed?

JumpCrisscross 3y ago
> if the CIA would investigate a food contamination event If the contamination possibly had a foreign state's fingerprints on it, sure they would.
shwaj 3y ago
This is obvious. CIA is the spy agency. Given that China was stonewalling any attempts to learn about what was going on in WIH, it seems natural for the spies to see what they can learn. They likely have access to many internal Chinese communications. Also obviously, this isn’t an investigation on just “anything”. This is about the origin of a global pandemic with millions of lives lost and billions-if-not-trillions of dollars of economic impact. And BTW again your biases show through with your use of the word “cursory”. On what basis do you conclude that the CIA investigation was cursory (or the DoE investigation, etc)? We don’t have access to those reports.