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Republican members of the House Intelligence Committee have written letters to President Biden and Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines demanding information on the origin of COVID-19, claiming they found evidence to support the theory that the virus originated in the Wuhan Institute of Virology lab.
The letter accuses the intelligence community of failing to provide timely updates on its investigation and not being forthcoming about what processes it undertook to make seemingly authoritative statements early in the pandemic about the origins of the virus conclusions that are now in question.
U.S. Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines leaves a hotel in Seoul on Thursday. /Yonhap
U.S. Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines visited the demilitarized zone, the Joint Security Area in the border truce village of Panmunjom, and the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff headquarters in Seoul on Thursday.
Normally, senior intelligence officers whereabouts are kept secret, but her schedule was as public as possible, probably to send a message to North Korea that the world is watching.
She looked around major facilities in the Panmunjom area, including the footbridge that President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un walked across during their summit in April 2018.
U.S. Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines visited the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) along the border with North Korea as part of a visit to South Korea on Thursday, the Yonhap news agency reported.