New CIA boss Ratcliffe says Biden-era report backing lab-leak theory released to 'restore' trust
Newly-confirmed CIA Director John Ratcliffe told Fox News the decision to release a Biden-era analysis favoring the COVID-19 lab leak theory is a step toward transparency.
The CIA believes COVID most likely originated from a lab but has low confidence in its own finding
The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory.
China says it's "extremely unlikely" COVID pandemic came from lab leak, as CIA now indicates
China says it's "extremely unlikely" that COVID-19​ came from a lab, after the CIA said it believed​, though with low confidence, that it did, rather than from natural transmission.
John Ratcliffe confirmed by the Senate to become Trump’s CIA director
Ratcliffe, 59, is the first person to have served as both director of national intelligence and chief of the CIA.
John Ratcliffe is sworn in as new director of the CIA
Vice President JD Vance has sworn in John Ratcliffe as the nation's CIA director, shortly after the Senate confirmed Ratcliffe on a vote of 74-25.
John Ratcliffe Confirmed as C.I.A. Director
He has offered a vision for a more aggressive spy agency, and his focus on the threat from China is widely shared by Republican and Democratic lawmakers.
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New CIA boss Ratcliffe says Biden-era report backing lab-leak theory released to 'restore' trust
As the virus spread across the globe in 2020, top health officials widely argued that COVID-19 was a naturally occurring pathogen, despite many speculating otherwise. Ratcliffe said releasing the ...
Senate confirms John Ratcliffe as Trump’s CIA director
The Senate on Thursday confirmed John Ratcliffe to lead the Central Intelligence Agency in overwhelming bipartisan fashion, making him the second member of President Trump’s national security team
CIA believes COVID-19 likely originated from a lab, but has low confidence in its finding
The finding, released Saturday on the orders of President Donald Trump's pick to lead the agency, is not the result of new intelligence.
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New CIA boss Ratcliffe says Biden-era report backing lab-leak theory released to 'restore' trust
The CIA's decision to release a Biden-era assessment favoring the once widely-dismissed COVID-19 lab-leak origin story marks a step toward transparency with the American people, newly-confirmed ...
Trump CIA Director John Ratcliffe confirmed by Senate
The former Texas lawmaker and prosecutor was Trump's national intelligence director in his first term. He vowed to reject White House political pressure
What to Know About the CIA’s Conclusion that COVID-19 Came From a Lab
The problem for the lab-leak position is that the U.S. has never had access to the Wuhan lab and has thus been unable to reach a definitive answer for more than five years. Now that the CIA has at last come to a conclusion, not all scientists are sold on what it has reported, seeing the results as thinly scientifically sourced.