After ABC News claimed “ As far back as late November, U.S. intelligence officials were warning that a contagion was sweeping through China’s Wuhan region, changing the patterns of life and business and posing a threat to the population, according to four sources briefed on the secret reporting” ( ABC News)......
The National Center for Medical Intelligence responded “As a matter of practice the National Center for Medical Intelligence does not comment publicly on specific intelligence matters.
However, in the interest of transparency during this current public health crisis, we can confirm that media reporting about the existence/release of a National Center for Medical Intelligence Coronavirus-related product/assessment in November of 2019 is not correct. No such NCMI product exists” (Twitter).
From Dan McLaughlin: There are three possibilities I can see:
(1) U.S. intelligence was aware of an outbreak in Wuhan large enough to disrupt daily life and business before the local government was,
(2) the scale of the Chinese coverup of what happened initially in Wuhan is significantly greater than we have been led to believe, or
(3) ABC News got a big story very wrong. Because if ABC is right, everything we have been told by the medical community, the news media, and the Chinese and international health authorities to date about the timeline is wrong ( National Review).
From Frank Luntz: Journalists need to care about getting the facts more than they care about getting Trump (Twitter).
Meanwhile, CBS News, embarrassed for what they called an “ editing mistake” by showing an Italian hospital when talking about overcrowded hospitals in New York, did it again. Same footage, this time calling it Pennsylvania ( Washington Examiner). |
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