Former State Dept investigator says COVID-19 may have resulted from bioweapons research accident

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This is a summary of an article written by Jennifer Griffin who currently serves as a national security correspondent for FOX News Channel. She joined FNC in October 1999 as a Jerusalem-based correspondent. Her article is titled, “David Asher believes the virus may have resulted from research by the Chinese military at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.” As top U.S. government people prepare to meet their Chinese government for their first face-to-face meeting during the Biden administration, the State Department's former lead investigator, named David Asher, who oversaw the Task Force into the COVID-19 virus origin tells Fox News that he not only believes the virus escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, but that it may have been the result of research that the Chinese military, or People’s Liberation Army, was doing on a bioweapon. David Asher, now a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute told Fox News in an exclusive interview. "The Wuhan Institute of Virology is not the National Institute of Health," "It was operating a secret, classified program. In my view, and I’m just one person, my view is it was a biological weapons program." Should we take him at his word? The article continues… Asher’s tendency is to "follow the money" who has worked on some of the most classified intelligence investigations for the State Department and Treasury under both Democratic and Republican administrations. Asher led the team that discovered the international nuclear procurement (acquiring weapons) of network run by ‘AQ Khan’ who is considered the father of Pakistan's nuclear program, and discovered key parts of North Korea's secret uranium enrichment. He believes the Chinese Communist Party has been involved in a massive cover-up during the past 14 months. "And if you believe, as I do, that this might have been a weapons vector (plan) gone awry, not deliberately released, but in development and then somehow leaked, this has turned out to be the greatest weapon in history," Asher said during a panel discussion at the Hudson Institute: The Origins of the COVID-10: Policy Implications and Lessons for the Future. "You've taken out 15 to 20 percent of global GDP. You've killed millions of people. The Chinese population has been barely affected. Their economies roared back to being number one in the entire G20." Asher says the Chinese government’s behavior reminds him of other criminal investigations he has overseen. "Motive, cover-up, conspiracy, all the hallmarks of guilt are associated with this. And the fact that the initial cluster of victims surrounded the very institute that was doing the highly dangerous, if not dubious( suspicious) research is significant" Asher also had experience because he was also the one who engaged the Chinese government as the State Department’s lead representative during the 2003 SARS outbreak.  At first, China said the COVID19 virus originated in the Wuhan Seafood Market – but the problem with China's theory: the first case had no connection to the market. Last fall the US obtained intelligence that indicates there was an outbreak among several Wuhan lab scientists with flu-like symptoms that left them hospitalized in November of 2019 - before China reported its first case. Asher and the other Hudson Institute panel experts said that in 2007, China announced it would begin work on genetic bioweapons using controversial "gain of function" research to make the viruses more lethal. The Chinese stopped talking publicly about their research at the Wuhan lab in 2016. That, Asher believes, is when the People’s Liberation Army stepped in and went from biodefense research to bio-offense. The same year, in 2016, China’s top state television commentator stated: "We have entered into an area of Chinese biowarfare, and including using things like viruses. I mean, they made a public statement to their people that this is a new priority under the Xi national security policy. According to Asher, "The Chinese stopped talking publicly about the research into coronavirus "disease vectors which could be used for weapons" in 2017, at the same time its military began funding the research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Asher said, "I doubt that that's a coincidence."  Biosafety has long been a concern with respect to China’s biosafety level 4 labs, according to experts. According to Miles Yu, the State Department official who co-wrote a recent article in the WSJ with former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo about the virus origins saying, "China has been involved in this type of virus research since 2003, the SARS outbreak. China's biosafety standard is really low and is very dangerous. So this is an accident waiting to happen."  When the team sent by the WHO to Wuhan in Early February visited the Wuhan Institute of Virology, they did not wear biosafety suits and spent 3 hours inside, but did not have access to the scientists or data they needed to fully rule out that the virus escaped from the lab. At the time Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said, "It should be noted that virus traceability is a complex scientific issue, and we need to provide sufficient space for experts to conduct scientific research." He added: "China will continue to cooperate with WHO in an open, transparent and responsible manner and make its contribution to better prevent future risks and protect the lives and health of people in all countries."
Well, what do YOU think? Like Asher pointed out- there are layers of suspicious behaviors upon layers of secrets. What are they up to? Time will tell…

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