A new lawsuit filed by the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project claims that the Central Intelligence Agency is withholding records that would show payoffs to analysts for burying evidence that a lab leak was the probable cause of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Back in September, a whistleblower told Congress that six of the seven CIA officers assigned to the agency’s COVID Discovery Team, which “consisted of multi-disciplinary and experienced officers with significant scientific expertise,” did not believe the evidence pointed to zoonotic transfer, but the most senior member of the team did. The whistleblower also testified that after receiving a “significant incentive” those six members changed their position.
After hearing this testimony, Reps. Brad Wenstrup and Mike Turner sent a letter to the CIA and a former official, according to Fox News, requesting documents related to the COVID…
