[RECENT ARCHIVES] MIDLIFE MINI-19, Thursday, September 14, 2023 - Can't Wait ... Cough, Cough ... to Hear What the CIA Says About the CIA.
Just read the deflection in that statement, "We do not pay analysts to reach specific conclusions" (1.).
"The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) confirms to ABC News it is 'looking into' accusations that several members of an agency team tasked with COVID-19 pandemic analysis were paid off 'significant' hush money in order to buy a shift in their position about where the virus came from -- but the agency emphasized it does not pay its analysts to reach particular conclusions.
"'At [the] CIA we are committed to the highest standards of analytic rigor, integrity and objectivity. We do not pay analysts to reach specific conclusions,' CIA spokesperson Tammy Kupperman Thorp said in a statement to ABC News. 'We take these allegations extremely seriously and are looking into them. We will keep our Congressional oversight committees appropriately informed'" (1.).
Ok, that might be a procedural CIA position, but that's not the allegation. The allegation is that, "[six of the seven member team] were 'given a significant monetary incentive to change their position,' according to the letter stating the whistleblower's allegations.
The allegation is that they "were given a significant monetary incentive," not that the CIA paid them.
I'm reminded of Clinton-speak, and the meaning of, "is" (2.).
What do you mean by "given"?
"It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is. If the—if he—if ‘is’ means is and never has been, that is not—that is one thing. If it means there is none, that was a completely true statement. … Now, if someone had asked me on that day, are you having any kind of sexual relations with Ms. Lewinsky, that is, asked me a question in the present tense, I would have said no. And it would have been completely true" (2.).
Full excerpt regarding the CIA non-looking into it:
"According to the whistleblower, seven 'multi-disciplinary and experienced officers with significant scientific expertise' had been assigned to a 'COVID discovery team,' Wenstrup and Turner's letter says.
"At the end of their review, all but one member of that team leaned towards a lab leak origin -- but that they were 'given a significant monetary incentive to change their position,' according to the letter stating the whistleblower's allegations.
"'Six of the seven members of the team believed the intelligence and science were sufficient to make a low confidence assessment that COVID-19 originated from a laboratory in Wuhan, China,' the letter said.
"'The seventh member of the team, who also happened to be the most senior, was the lone officer to believe COVID-19 originated through zoonosis,' the letter said. 'The whistleblower further contends that to come to the eventual public determination of uncertainty, the other six members were given a significant monetary incentive to change their position'" (1.).
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Can't wait ... cough, cough ... to hear what the CIA says about the CIA.
- Matfucius
1.) https://www.yahoo.com/gma/cia-looking-allegations-connected-covid-002011932.html
2.) https://slate.com/news-and-politics/1998/09/bill-clinton-and-the-meaning-of-is.html
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