House Intel GOP demand Biden instruct top spy office to reveal scientists who helped with COVID-19 origins report | Washington Examiner

“This is fundamental oversight of the IC s work. We need this information to determine whether there was any selection bias in choosing the outside scientists to consult. We also need it to determine whether any of the scientists had conflicts of interest that should affect the weight given their analyses,” the Republicans wrote in a letter to Biden dated Friday.

Nunes, a California Republican, revealed the letter during an appearance on Sunday Morning Futures on Fox News.

It looks like there needs to be an entire new report that needs to be written, because Republican members on the committee have basically had enough of this. It just looks like this is another attempt to obfuscate and protect China once again by the Biden administration,” he told host Maria Bartiromo.

The interview took place shortly after the Wall Street Journal reported that a panel of scientists investigating the origins of the COVID-19 virus had disbanded, citing concerns about its links to EcoHealth Alliance, a New York-based nonprofit group that had used U.S. funds for research on bat coronaviruses with the Wuhan Institute of Virology. EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak, who dismissed  the lab leak hypothesis in March, recused himself from the investigation over the summer.

A letter  signed by 27 scientists, including Daszak, was published in Lancet in February 2020, dismissing the lab leak hypothesis as a conspiracy theory. Numerous outlets pointed to the letter and to Daszak, who had recruited scientists to sign the letter, to shut down the debate over COVID-19 s origins.

Dr. Anthony Fauci quietly worked behind the scenes to cast doubt on the lab leak hypothesis in 2020, and he and Daszak were in communication at the time, emails show.

Daszak was also a key member of the World Health Organization-China joint study team earlier this year. The WHO-China  report was widely considered a failure, partly due to the lack of access to key data and Chinese influence over the investigation.

The WHO-China study deemed the lab leak theory extremely unlikely, and meeting minutes with the Wuhan lab dismissed it as a conspiracy theory.

In July, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said  there was a “premature push” to dismiss the lab theory, but the Chinese government

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The would be hilarious if it weren’t so infuriating and sad. But one out of the three intel agencies did object to the inconclusive report. Who were they? What did they say? Inquiring minds want to know.