"Recall that back on April 30, I wrote about how the Trump Administration had been orchestrating a propaganda push to claim that SARS CoV-2 was accidentally released from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Of special importance is that the New York Times article I cited on the topic specifically mentioned Mike Pompeo as one of the primary forces behind pushing the story. Recall also that a part of this propaganda effort came from "leaked" State Department cables."
"Apparently, getting called out by the New York Times was not enough to deter Pompeo from this effort. He returned to the airwaves on May 3, telling ABC that there is "enormous evidence" that the virus came from the lab. And then "magically", but in reality following the aluminum tubes playbook straight out of Cheney's Iraq WMD playbook, a "report" came into the hands of NBC, who published it May 8. The report purportedly relied on "open source" data to make the case that some sort of accident occurred at the lab in late October,"
Senior U.S. officials orchestrated a propaganda push alleging that SARS CoV-2 was accidentally released from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Mike Pompeo was identified as a primary force behind the push and cited purported evidence on national television. Leaked State Department cables contributed to the campaign. An NBC-published report claimed open-source data showed a late-October lab accident and local roadblocks, but NBC found factual errors about a cancelled conference. The Daily Beast published a thorough debunking, and satellite imagery analysis by Jeffrey Lewis and Maxar imagery revealed simpler explanations for the alleged roadblocks.
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