An exclusive report “Intelligence on Sick Staff at Wuhan Lab Fuels Debate on Covid-19 Origin” published on The Wall Street Journal on May 23, 2021, just a day before the World Health Assembly, brings back the Covid-19 lab leak theory at an intriguing time. However, the report citing ‘newly declassified’ US intelligence fails to stand up to scrutiny. Given a closer look, not only did the ‘new’ article use nothing but ‘recycled’ content from the year of 2019, but made a fatal mistake of lacking a decisive or coherent primary source.