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The fascinating part is everyone did an about face on it overnight after the WSJ article.

We went from Facebook banning mention of the theory to everyone being certain it's right on the basis of "national security flack says someone who works at the lab was sick, during flu season".




It's almost like the media is taking cues from the Biden administration.


Yes, but this is more the trans-administration national security blob than Biden people in particular.

The WSJ author had brought us other CIA-approved gems about WMDs in Iraq once upon a time.

You might be onto something with garden-variety liberals feeling 'free' to try and blame China now that Trump's out of sight, though.


> The WSJ author had brought us other CIA-approved gems about WMDs in Iraq once upon a time.

In case other people besides myself were confused, we're apparently talking about Michael Gordon, and this WSJ article [0], not this one [1]. Michael Gordon also wrote [2], which reported on the Bush administration's claims that Iraq was developing nuclear weapons.

[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/intelligence-on-sick-staff-at-w... [1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/wuhan-lab-leak-question-chinese... [2] https://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/08/world/threats-responses-i...




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