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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is a no-nonsense guy. Earlier today on “Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace,” he minced no words on a direct question about where the COVID-19 virus originated.
If you have not been following the news recently on how the narrative last year that the COVID-19 virus developed in nature and came from a bat has fallen apart, you need to be brought up to speed. You also need to bookmark RedState, being as my colleagues here have been on fire with this story. The latest damning report from Jennifer Van Laar is right here.
Last week, Matt reported on intel that our friends at RedState had, which pointed to information from a Chinese defector who claimed that the Chinese military was working on a
According to the officials familiar with the intelligence, RaTG13 is not regarded as the immediate precursor of the virus behind SAR-CoV-2, the formal name for the coronavirus.
“RaTG13 is significant for other reasons having to do with its potential as a backbone for the creation of a parthenogenic chimeric virus,” one official said. “It is also significant given the suspect behavior of PRC scientists regarding disclosure of information about this virus and the clouded and questionable nature of previous disclosures about its origin, genomic structure and laboratory experimentation.”
Steven C. Quay, a prominent virologist who took part in a State Department study of the virus, revealed in a scientific analysis made public in January that RaTG13 “is not a pristine biological entity but shows evidence of genetic manipulation in the laboratory.”