By Jeff Carlson & Hans Mahncke

Originally Published 9/15/21

On Sept. 12, 2019, the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s database of viral sequences was taken offline. The deleted database, which has never been publicly recovered, contained more than 22,000 unpublished samples and sequences of bat and rodent viruses.

Notably, the database contains crucial data and may hold the key to determining whether the lab in Wuhan, China, had COVID-19 or a progenitor virus in its possession.

The importance of having access to virus sequence data was illustrated earlier this year, when sequences from early COVID-19 cases were recovered from another dataset that had been deleted in June 2020 from a National Institutes of Health (NIH) database at the behest of a Chinese researcher. That data confirmed that the pandemic didn’t start at the Huanan Seafood Market as Chinese authorities had claimed.Continue Reading

By Jeff Carlson & Hans Mahncke

Originally Published 9/7/21

In May, President Joe Biden gave the intelligence community 90 days to write a report on the origins of COVID-19. The declassified version of that assessment has now been released.

The report is only 493 words long and curiously ignores readily available information, instead choosing to focus on and reinforce questions that are, for the most part, unknowable.

Specifically, the intelligence community (IC) claimed that in order to reach a conclusive assessment, it required “clinical samples or a complete understanding of epidemiological data from the earliest cases.”Continue Reading

By Jeff Carlson & Hans Mahncke

Originally Published 6/28/21

Shi Zhengli, the director of the Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases of the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), is the common thread through which many key research projects and gain-of-function experiments on coronaviruses are connected.

Her work shows a curious pattern of deception, tracing through her publications from 2013 to 2020, in which a key source for the coronavirus most closely related to COVID-19 was concealed.

In 2002, an outbreak of the novel coronavirus known as SARS resulted in the deaths of 774 people worldwide. Investigations quickly established that the virus spread from bats to civets and then on to people.Continue Reading

By Jeff Carlson & Hans Mahncke

Originally Published 6/22/21

In new affidavits filed in a Washington, D.C., court late on June 21, sub-sources for Igor Danchenko—the “primary sub-source” in Christopher Steele’s dossier on the 2016 Trump presidential campaign—deny having provided any information contained in the dossier.

Danchenko had previously told the FBI that he obtained the information that was published in the dossier by “word of mouth and hearsay” from a network of sub-sources in Russia.Continue Reading

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By Jeff Carlson & Hans Mahncke

Originally Published 6/10/21

The investigation by special counsel John Durham into the origins of the FBI’s Russia–Trump investigation—Crossfire Hurricane—has now been active for more than two years.

Appointed by Attorney General William Barr following the completion of Robert Mueller’s special counsel investigation, Durham immediately began his work in the spring of 2019.Continue Reading

By Jeff Carlson & Hans Mahncke

Originally Published 6/8/21

The two most significant articles promoting the “natural origins” theory for the COVID-19 outbreak originated from scientists who were part of a response team of “experts” brought in by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine (NASEM), in response to a request from a White House official.

These influential articles were used extensively by media organizations to push the natural origins theory, while simultaneously deriding alternative theories—including that of a possible lab leak—as conspiracy theories.Continue Reading

By Hans Mahncke (originally published March 22, 2021)

The World Health Organization’s (WHO) latest mission to Wuhan, China, to trace the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic is back in the headlines. But not for the right reasons.

Its ostensible purpose was tainted from the start, as revealed by a March 17 article in The Wall Street Journal that showed the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) secured veto rights over who was going to be allowed to travel to Wuhan to conduct the purported investigation.Continue Reading

By Jeff Carlson & Hans Mahncke

Originally Published 6/2/21

Top U.S. health officials, including Anthony Fauci, scrambled in late January 2020 to respond to public reporting of a potential connection between COVID-19 and the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China.

The insight into their response comes from examining more than 3,000 pages of emails belonging to Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), which were released under the Freedom of Information Act and provide a detailed timeline of events.Continue Reading

By Jeff Carlson & Hans Mahncke

Originally Published 5/12/21

President Joe Biden over the past few months has added to his administration multiple Obama-era officials who had direct participation in “Russiagate.”

The latest addition is Susan Hennessey to the Department of Justice’s National Security Division.Continue Reading