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“WUHAN WHITEWASH” mentioning the U.S. Dept of State was published in the Extensions of Remarks section on pages E376 on April 13.
The State Department is responsibly for international relations with a budget of more than $50 billion. Tenure at the State Dept. is increasingly tenuous and it's seen as an extension of the President's will, ambitions and flaws.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
WUHAN WHITEWASH
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HON. JOE WILSON
of south carolina
in the house of representatives
Tuesday, April 13, 2021
Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Madam Speaker, incredibly revealing is the editorial in The Wall Street Journal on March 31, 2021 opposing The Wuhan Virus Whitewash. The unintended consequence of the blatant misrepresentation in the Wuhan Report is to further verify COVID-19 originated at the Wuhan Virology Institute leading to over three million deaths worldwide.
The World Health Organization on Tuesday finally released its report on the origins of the coronavirus, and the result wasn't worth the wait. The document is best understood as a whitewash heavily influenced by the Chinese Communist Party and Westerners with conflicts of interest.
The report--based primarily on an international team's visit this year to the city of Wuhan, where Covid-19 was first detected--has little new information.
In 2018 U.S. officials warned in diplomatic cables about safety and management issues at the Wuhan Virology Institute that could lead to a pandemic.
The U.S. State Department warned in a January fact sheet that WIV researchers had developed ``symptoms consistent with both COVID-19 and common seasonal illnesses'' in autumn 2019.
Even the WHO recognizes the implausibility of the report.
``I do not believe that this assessment was extensive enough. Further data and studies will be needed to reach more robust conclusions,'' WHO director-general Tedros Ghebreyesus said Tuesday.
The U.S. and 13 other governments released a statement Tuesday expressing ``shared concerns'' that the WHO study
``was significantly delayed and lacked access to complete, original data and samples.''
That shouldn't be the end of it. The Biden Administration knows the underlying intelligence and should release it to the public. The Biden Administration says it wants to revitalize multilateral institutions, and that should start with refusing to accept the WHO's Wuhan whitewash.
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