John Ratcliffe, who directed NI throughout the Trump administration, wrote a Fox News opinion column in which he announced that the Chinese Communist Party is perpetrating "a massive cover up of the virus's origins and the circumstances surrounding its initial outbreak."
Consequently, the International Olympic Committee should not let Beijing host the Olympics.
"The 2022 Winter Games should go on. We should not punish hard-working athletes who have dedicated their lives to preparing for this moment," Radcliffe stated.
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"But the world — and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) — should not allow Beijing to enjoy the benefits of hosting a massive global event while rejecting transparency and refusing to allow inquiries into, much less answering for, the deaths of millions of people around the world."
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Radcliffe, who represented Texas' Fourth Congressional District in the U.S. House 2015-20, stated, as NI director, he had access to all of the U.S. government's most tender intelligence linked to the pandemic.
"My informed opinion is that the lab leak theory isn’t just a 'possibility,' at the very least it is more like a probability, if not very close to a certainty," he wrote, further citing the World Health Organization's (WHO) crave to investigate the theory that the virus escaped from a Chinese laboratory in Wuhan.
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"This was remarkable not only because of China's continued belligerence, but also because the WHO was once complicit, caving to the CCP's initial pressure to dismiss the lab leak theory and downplay the CCP’s cover up. But now the facts are too hard for even the WHO — and hopefully the IOC — to ignore."
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Radcliffe said everything he had seen led to the pandemic's source being a leak out of the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
"Quite simply, the lab leak theory is the only one supported by science, intelligence and common sense," he stated.
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The former director wrote that a scientific consensus said the outbreak began in Wuhan, despite the fact coronaviruses do not occur there naturally.
"The nearest bat caves where the virus conceivable could have originated are in Yunnan province, which is as far from Wuhan as New York City is from Atlanta," he said.
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"If the bats had flown (their range is only about 30 miles) or been transported that far, there would presumably have been cases popping up along the route, which did not happen. Meanwhile, Wuhan scientists were openly studying bat coronaviruses in their lab."
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