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Busted: Pentagon Contractors Report on Wuhan Lab Origins of Virus Is Bogus
A military contractors report circulating on Capitol Hill claims to have evidence that COVID-19 escaped from a Chinese lab. Its filled with information thats just plain wrong.
Erin Banco, Adam Rawnsley, Lachlan Cartwright at the Daily Beast
Updated May. 17, 2020 11:17PM ET
https://www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-contractors-report-on-wuhan-lab-origins-of-coronavirus-is-bogus?ref=scroll
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Ashocking report suggesting that the coronavirus was release[d from] the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China is now circulating in U.S. military and intelligence circles and on Capitol Hill. But theres a critical flaw in the report, a Daily Beast analysis reveals: Some of its most seemingly persuasive evidence is falseprovably false.
Multiple congressional committees have obtained and are scrutinizing the 30-page report, produced by the Multi-Agency Collaboration Environment (MACE), a part of Sierra Nevada, a major Department of Defense contractor. The report claims to rely on social media postings, commercial satellite imagery, and cellphone location data to draw the conclusion that some sort of hazardous event occurred at the Wuhan virology lab in October 2019an event that allowed COVID-19 to escape. Its a theory that has gained currency on the political right and in the upper tiers of the Trump administration.
But the reports claim centers around missing location data for up to seven phones and in many cases, less than that. Its too small a sample size to prove much of anything, especially when the same devices showed similar absences in the spring of 2019. The MACE document claims a November 2019 conference was canceled because of some calamity; in fact, there are selfies from the event.
Whats more, imagery collected by DigitalGlobes Maxar Technologies satellites and provided to The Daily Beast reveals a simpler, less exotic reason for why analysts believed roadblocks went into place around the lab after the supposed accident: road construction. The Maxar images also show typical workdays, with normal traffic patterns around the lab, after the supposedly cataclysmic event.
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littlemissmartypants
(22,656 posts)ridiculous bullshit is one of the main reasons we can't have nice things. I am grateful for the effort but truly wish we didn't have to waste the time and energy.
❤ lmsp
Ford_Prefect
(7,897 posts)You have to ask who commissioned it......And someone in Congress should do so immediately.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,345 posts)KPN
(15,645 posts)We need a revolt. We arent just a banana republic, we are a banana republic on steroids. Are we sure we can count on the election? Didnt we already make that mistake in 2000 and again in 2016?