Pompeo: US
Knows NadaBy Finian Cunningham
May 02, 2020 "Information
Clearing House" - All the American bluster
blaming China for the Covid-19 pandemic is empty
posturing. How do we know? Secretary of State Mike
Pompeo just admitted it on public TV this week.
Pompeo
was asked about the origin of the virus and,
specifically, US claims about it being leaked from a
laboratory. Here’s what
he told Fox News: “This
virus originated in Wuhan, China. We don’t know the
precise location.”
That’s the best that Pompeo can do. Pretty much
saying what the rest of the world already knows, that
the new coronavirus emerged in the city of Wuhan. Any
further detail on an alleged laboratory release, and
Pompeo has zero information. And openly says so himself.
He rambled on with lots of innuendo and inanities,
but the germane information to glean is Pompeo admitting
that the US does not know “the precise location” of
where the virus came from.
That’s a damning remark. Because Pompeo and his boss,
President Trump, among others, are claiming US
intelligence indicates that the virus somehow leaked out
of a laboratory in Wuhan, the Wuhan Institute of
Virology.
While Pompeo was inadvertently coming clean about US
ignorance,
Trump has been claiming
that intelligence is coming in and “we are not happy”,
implying that the Americans had something incriminating
on China.
However,
Pompeo’s professed lack of knowledge about the origin of
the virus also hasn’t stopped him from asserting that
China is recklessly running other laboratories
creating dangerous pathogens. Ominously, he has vowed
that the US will convince other nations that China is
responsible for the global outbreak and that Beijing
will be held liable for financial compensation. That
suggests the US is busily working on finding “evidence”
to a fit a predetermined conclusion blaming China.
The
allegation of the virus escaping from a laboratory has
been roundly rejected by
international scientific assessment.
The scientific consensus is overwhelmingly that the
virus originated in nature, possibly in bats from where
it passed into humans. A biological accident, so to
speak, for which China is not and should not be made
liable.
Scientific assessment concurs with the
position of the Chinese government.
China has denounced the allegations made by the Trump
administration as “preposterous disinformation”.