Intelligence report warned of coronavirus crisis as early as November: Sources
Source: ABC News
"Analysts concluded it could be a cataclysmic event," a source says.
By Josh Margolin and James Gordon Meek
April 8, 2020, 4:01 AM
As far back as late November, U.S. intelligence officials were warning that a contagion was sweeping through Chinas Wuhan region, changing the patterns of life and business and posing a threat to the population, according to four sources briefed on the secret reporting.
Concerns about what is now known to be the novel coronavirus pandemic were detailed in a November intelligence report by the military's National Center for Medical Intelligence (NCMI), according to two officials familiar with the documents contents.
The report was the result of analysis of wire and computer intercepts, coupled with satellite images. It raised alarms because an out-of-control disease would pose a serious threat to U.S. forces in Asia -- forces that depend on the NCMIs work. And it paints a picture of an American government that could have ramped up mitigation and containment efforts far earlier to prepare for a crisis poised to come home.
"Analysts concluded it could be a cataclysmic event," one of the sources said of the NCMIs report. "It was then briefed multiple times to" the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Pentagons Joint Staff and the White House.
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pnwmom
(108,974 posts)Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)I see at least one fairly intelligent fellow on Facebook discussions adamant that it was the WHO and the Chinese who covered this up, making it impossible for the Horses Ass to have known or done anything.
canetoad
(17,149 posts)And the Intelligence services reported events in Wuhan in November, it doesn't matter if and by whom anything was subsequently covered up. The intelligence was there; why wasn't it acted upon?
csziggy
(34,136 posts)Probably because he realizes that they know way more than he'd like about his nefarious schemes.
I have no doubt that Dolt was given those reports and screamed "FAKE!" then threw the reports out - or as reported previously tore them up. He probably thinks that once he tore them up, all other copies and knowledge of them would magically disappear.
Igel
(35,296 posts)where it was routed and what important was attached to it.
If it was that dire it would have been shared with NATO allies, as well.
And would have been hard to keep from being a problem elsewhere. I mean, first report is the end of December? And human-to-human transmission left hanging until mid-January?
Ligyron
(7,624 posts)I would have suspected The Eagles or Wang Chung myself.
I hate The Eagles.
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)more of a Jazz fan myself.
niyad
(113,253 posts)But then, I trust our Intel communities. I do not trust the tangerine tyrant or his admin.
Maxheader
(4,372 posts)Need a few 1000 bodies before it gets on their radar...
bucolic_frolic
(43,123 posts)Even if China was covering it up, we have intelligence whose job it is to know everything knowable, and the idea they didn't know, when there have been past outbreaks of contagions, and in the region, makes any plausible deniability for Trump very tenuous indeed
Meowmee
(5,164 posts)Read about of Dr Li Wenliang, the first recorded case was on November 17 2019, it was not associated with the Wuhan Market, so intelligence in Nov sounds right.
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)bluecollar2
(3,622 posts)Says it all...
ck4829
(35,042 posts)Ligyron
(7,624 posts)Is it willful ignorance, know nothingness, incompetence?
Or purposeful design.
Naw, they're not that smart ... but they are that evil.
Besides, never assign to the later what is best explained by the former.
or something like that...
jaxexpat
(6,818 posts)Trueblue Texan
(2,425 posts)That should be our slogan: Make America SAFE again!
jaxexpat
(6,818 posts)Make America conscious again.
End the coma already.
Trueblue Texan
(2,425 posts)MFGsunny
(2,356 posts)Yep - that's MF45 and his grifting cabal, truly a maladministration.
OF COURSE our IC knew from back in November 2019.
But we will remember, remember this 3rd od November 2020.
mgardener
(1,816 posts)We have a POTUS who lied to Americans about the severity of COVID, and the extent it was spreading in the US
We didn't have tests, we still don't have we need, so we don't know the extent of how many people have it in the US.
How many people have milder symptoms and cannot get tested?
TRUMP NEEDS TO RESIGN.
Botany
(70,489 posts)... tried to monetize it?
R-W-M
(2 posts)If we could just answer the question with the numbers, what would the conclusion be after early warnings from the Defense Department, the Intelligence community, the CDC.
The USA has about 5% of the world's population, and currently has 29% of the world's reported cases.
Heck of a job...Liar and Chief.
The Magistrate
(95,244 posts)LiberalFighter
(50,866 posts)Ad Infinitum
(74 posts)Even big business understands that without consumers,
you can't get rich very easily unless you invent, win or through
hard work. The new crop of inbred Repubican'ts doesn't value
anything new or different. It seems to be the so threatened by
"other" people. They mostly live only surface lives: never realizing
that diverse friends are a source of joy and a marvelous way to see other people.
We need to expand our individual in groups. Liberals embrace other
people and bring them in with us. Republicans react quickly in an emergency,
sadly all of the rest of their lives are consumed by terror.
duforsure
(11,885 posts)Its shows he's intentionally covering it up. Also it would show by his refusals to act while he stood to profit from it with stocks he owned , this was intentional and corrupt and criminal, and illegal from the start from trump. trump will have to answer some key questions , or be removed ASAP. Reporters today should confront him if he would profit from it in any way. Then ask if he was aware of this possible outbreak much sooner than in Jan. .
Ohiogal
(31,969 posts)The orange shitface knows more about viruses than any doctor ....
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)[link:https://bluedot.global/|]
Alex4Martinez
(2,193 posts)Zing Zing Zingbah
(6,496 posts)Not our President, that's for sure. LOL