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WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — The U.S. Senate on Wednesday unanimously passed a bill to force the Biden administration to declassify all documents related to the origins of COVID-19.
The move comes after news broke that the U.S. Department of Energy concluded in a “classified intelligence report,” albeit with “low confidence,” that the COVID-19 outbreak “most likely” originated from a Chinese lab leak, a concept previously denounced as a conspiracy theory. The FBI also reportedly believes that the coronavirus likely escaped from a Chinese laboratory.
S. 619, introduced by Republican U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri and also known as the “COVID-19 Origin Act of 2023<, contends that “there is reason to believe the COVID-19 pandemic may have originated at the Wuhan Institute of Virology” in China.
Lawmakers also say they believe that “identifying the origin of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is critical for preventing a similar pandemic from occurring in the future.”
Therefore, they argue that “the Director of National Intelligence should declassify and make available to the public as much information as possible about the origin of COVID-19” to enable
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