Spy bosses 'silenced' Defense Department, FBI scientists from briefing Biden on COVID lab leak evidence | 26 Dec 2024 | Spy chiefs “silenced” researchers in the Defense Department and FBI who discovered strong evidence that COVID-19 most likely leaked from a Chinese lab, The Post has learned. As a result, their findings were kept out of an August 2021 report to Joe Biden on the origins of the global pandemic. That report concluded that the virus behind COVID "was probably not genetically engineered." The analysis was conducted by John Hardham, Robert Cutlip and Jean-Paul Chretien, three scientists in the Defense Intelligence Agency's National Center for Medical Intelligence. Among their shocking findings: --The COVID virus contained a feature allowing for easier transmission to humans that was constructed in a manner similar to that described in a years-old Chinese study --A Chinese military researcher applied for a patent for a COVID-19 vaccine just weeks after the virus was first sequenced in 2020. (He later died after falling from the infamous Wuhan Institute of Virology's roof, according to U.S. investigators.) --WIV researchers worked with U.S. researchers who trained them to construct viruses without leaving a trace of them being engineered. The spy chiefs further forbade the scientists from sharing the information with Congress -- even after Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) expressly requested them in a March 2021 letter -- or from rebutting a since-disgraced May 2020 paper -- prompted by Anthony Fauci -- that sought to discredit the lab leak theory.