Lawmakers who have long pressed for transparency on the origin of COVID-19 said they are underwhelmed by a declassified U.S. intelligence report, saying that the administration hasn’t been fully transparent with what it knows.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) released the long-anticipated report on the evening of June 23, days after a 90-day deadline mandated by the COVID-19 Origin Act of 2023. Passed by Congress and signed into law in March, the act requires disclosure of any possible links to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), which has been suggested as a likely pandemic origin.
