This after ABC News claims “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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