Admittedly I have no confidence in these reports. It's questionable why this is being reported at this time except to:1- Cast aspersion and suspicion on China.2- Present Trump as incompetent.Still it's remotely possible the report is correct....Independent
A second report has claimed that the US collected intelligence pointing to a public health crisis in Wuhan as far back as November, after officials dismissed allegations earlier this week.On Wednesday, ABC News said that the National Center for Medical Intelligence had known of a spreading contagion in the Chinese city in November and later presented the White House and Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) with its findings on “multiple” occasions.Repeated warnings were made throughout December, ABC News claims, before a detailed explanation of the issue appeared in Donald Trump’s daily intelligence briefing in January.The National Center for Medical Intelligence denied the report in a rare and unrequested public statement, dismissing it as “not correct”.“As a matter of practice the National Center for Medical Intelligence does not comment publicly on specific intelligence matters,” said Dr R Shane Day, the centre’s director said.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.”NBC News has since reiterated claims that US officials had amassed raw intelligence on a growing health crisis in Wuhan last year.According to its report, officials had acquired communications intercepts and overhead images that showed increased activity at health facilities in the city.A “situation report” was produced and distributed to federal public healths in late November, NBC News adds, but at that point no formal assessment was made and nor was there any indication of a mounting global pandemic.
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