Ratcliffe’s off to a quick start

[LuFins Dad]

Stripped Brennan and others of their security clearances.

Not only shuttered the DEI offices, but put the employees on administrative leave. Will not be reassigning them.

Oh yeah, and clarified the CIA position that COVID was not naturally occurring and was in fact a lab leak.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/us/politics/cia-covid-lab-leak.html

[George K]

He's been in National Security in the past - DNI. He knows what's BS and what's not.

[George K]

@LuFins-Dad said in Ratcliffe’s off to a quick start:

Stripped Brennan and others of their security clearances.

Was that part of the 51 people that signed Blinken's letter?

[George K]

@LuFins-Dad said in Ratcliffe’s off to a quick start:

clarified the CIA position that COVID was not naturally occurring and was in fact a lab leak.

Remember when you'd end up in Facebook jail or be banned on Twitter for saying that?

[Horace]

Last I checked, the "mainstream scientific community" was still all but certain of a natural origin. This stuff from the government is sidelined as non-experts bloviating.