The U.S. Senate passed a bill Wednesday night requiring the Biden administration to declassify all intelligence related to the Wuhan Institute of Virology and possible links the origins of the COVID-19 virus.
The vote came after the Department of Energy concluded earlier this week with low confidence that the COVID-19 pandemic was likely the result of a lab leak. Previously, the agency had not been able to determine if there was a link to the lab’s work and the pandemic’s outbreak.
The Senate bill introduced by GOP Sens. Josh Hawley of Missouri and Mike Braun of Indiana, passed by unanimous consent.
“Identifying the origin of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID–19) is critical for preventing a similar pandemic from occurring in the future,” the bill reads. “The Director of National Intelligence should declassify and make available to the public as much information as possible about the origin of COVID–19.”
The legislation also requires the DNI to “declassify any and all information relating to potential links between the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the origin of the Coronavirus Disease 2019,” including activities performed by the institute on behalf of communist China’s People’s Liberation Army.
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Tonight the Senate UNANIMOUSLY passed my bill to declassify all the intelligence the government has on #covid origins. Let the people see the truth!
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) March 2, 2023
Hawley said in a news release, “For nearly three years, anyone asking whether COVID-19 originated as a lab leak outbreak was silenced and branded as a conspiracy theorist.”
“Now these prudent skeptics stand vindicated,” he continued. “The Biden administration must immediately declassify all intelligence reports pertaining to the origins of COVID-19 and the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The American people deserve to know the truth,” Hawley said.
Braun said, “The Biden administration has called the lab leak theory a conspiracy theory from the beginning, and has only started to publicly admit they were wrong as the evidence becomes overwhelming.
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