{"id":2203,"date":"2023-03-21T15:44:53","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T20:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=2203"},"modified":"2023-03-21T15:44:53","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T20:44:53","slug":"biden-signs-bill-declassifying-covid-19-origins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=2203","title":{"rendered":"Biden Signs Bill Declassifying COVID-19 Origins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>President Joe Biden signed legislation yesterday to declassify the origins of the COVID-19 virus after Congress passed the bill unanimously.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The legislation orders government agencies to declassify intel on the origins of COVID-19. Biden put out the following statement on the bill\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\"><strong><em>Today, I am pleased to sign into law S. 619, the \u201cCOVID-19 Origin Act of 2023.\u201d \u00a0I share the Congress\u2019s goal of releasing as much information as possible about the origin of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID\u201319). \u00a0In 2021, I directed the Intelligence Community to use every tool at its disposal to investigate the origin of COVID-19, and that work is ongoing. \u00a0We need to get to the bottom of COVID-19\u2019s origins to help ensure we can better prevent future pandemics. \u00a0My Administration will continue to review all classified information relating to COVID\u201319\u2019s origins, including potential links to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. \u00a0In implementing this legislation, my Administration will declassify and share as much of that information as possible, consistent with my constitutional authority to protect against the disclosure of information that would harm national security. \u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">INBOX: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@POTUS<\/a> has signed the bill declassifying Covid origins information, says he will \u201cdeclassify and share as much of that information as possible, consistent with my constitutional authority to protect against the disclosure of information that would harm national security\u201d. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tEIF4inHuN\">pic.twitter.com\/tEIF4inHuN<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AndrewFeinberg\/status\/1637926634056560641?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 20, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>China has openly opposed this bill, and actually sent a letter to Senator Josh Hawley\u2019s office warning him about passing the bill. See a tweet with that letter below\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">SCOOP: A Chinese govt official sent this letter to the office of Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HawleyMO?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@HawleyMO<\/a> yesterday, criticizing Congress for the COVID Origin Act that he introduced in late February <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yJPsk9Zxok\">pic.twitter.com\/yJPsk9Zxok<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Liz Elkind (@liz_elkind) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/liz_elkind\/status\/1633855718834024448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 9, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why is China so interested in covering this up?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Original Article: <a href=\"https:\/\/rare.us\/rare-politics\/biden-signs-bill-declassifying-covid-19-origins\/\">https:\/\/rare.us\/rare-politics\/biden-signs-bill-declassifying-covid-19-origins\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden signed legislation yesterday to declassify the origins of the COVID-19 virus after Congress passed the bill unanimously. The legislation orders government agencies to declassify intel on the origins of COVID-19. Biden put out the following statement on the bill\u2026 Today, I am pleased to sign into law S. 619, the \u201cCOVID-19 Origin Act of 2023.\u201d \u00a0I share the Congress\u2019s goal of releasing as much information as possible about the origin of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID\u201319). \u00a0In 2021, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-president-biden"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2204,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203\/revisions\/2204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}