A Heritage Foundation-affiliated group, the Oversight Project, has filed a lawsuit against the CIA under the Freedom of Information Act to obtain records related to allegations that analysts were paid to alter their conclusions about the origins of COVID-19.
The lawsuit comes after a whistleblower claimed that the CIA offered monetary incentives to its COVID-19 investigators to change their findings.
The CIA’s official conclusion about the virus’s origin remains inconclusive, and House investigators have requested more information from the agency. (Trending: Trump Releases Must-See Christmas Message)
The Oversight Project asserts that the CIA and the Biden administration are withholding crucial information about the virus’s origins.
The Oversight Project wrote in the lawsuit, “This is an action under the Freedom of Information Act (‘FOIA’), 5 U.S.C. § 552, to compel production of CIA records relating to allegations that members of the CIA’s COVID Discovery Team, a group of employees tasked with analyzing the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, received monetary incentives to change their position on the origins of the virus.”
Committee Chairmen, Reps Mike Turner and Brad Wenstrup said in a joint statement, “According to the whistleblower, at the end of its review, 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.”
Oversight Project chief counsel Kyle Brosnan said, “A CIA whistleblower has made serious allegations that the agency bought off employees of the agency to further obstruct efforts to get to the truth of the virus’s origins. This obstruction cannot stand and we’re fighting in federal court to get to the bottom of this.”
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