Hey. It Worked In Ukraine, Right?

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From Mark Mazzetti, Julian E. Barnes, Edward Wong and Adam Goldman in today's New York Times:

Senior Trump administration officials have pushed American spy agencies to hunt for evidence to support an unsubstantiated theory that a government laboratory in Wuhan, China, was the origin of the coronavirus outbreak, according to current and former American officials. The effort comes as President Trump escalates a public campaign to blame China for the pandemic.

Some intelligence analysts are concerned that the pressure from administration officials will distort assessments about the virus and that they could be used as a political weapon in an intensifying battle with China over a disease that has infected more than three million people across the globe.

Most intelligence agencies remain skeptical that conclusive evidence of a link to a lab can be found, and scientists who have studied the genetics of the coronavirus say that the overwhelming probability is that it leapt from animal to human in a nonlaboratory setting, as was the case with H.I.V., Ebola and SARS...

Personally, I would not be the least bit surprised if it turns out that this politically-driven, Cheneyesque 'conclusion shopping'  is really happening once again.

After all if they could blame all the Manafortian corruption in Ukraine on the Bidens in Ukraine and get away with it, why not send Rudy or, more likely, his remote-controlled henchmen to Wuhan?

And then, perhaps, they can get the dog breeder to do the bioinformatic analysis of the genetic fingerprinting.

Sheesh.

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