.@Gstephanopoulos: “Did the Pentagon receive an intelligence assessment on COVID in China last November from the National Center for Medical Intelligence?”— ABC News (@ABC) April 5, 2020
Defense Sec. Mark Esper: “I can’t recall, George, but we have many people that watch this closely.” https://t.co/d9XlhTygln pic.twitter.com/E89i7DjF4t
Zero Hedge: US Intelligence Warned Of "Cataclysmic" Coronavirus Crisis As Impeachment Dominated Headlines
While Congressional Democrats dominated headlines with their impeachment of President Trump - who was ultimately acquitted by the Senate, US intelligence officials were sounding the alarm that a serious illness was sweeping through China's Wuhan region.
A November intelligence report by the National Center for Medical Intelligence (NCMI) outlined concerns over what is now known as the COVID-19 pandemic - warning that it could be a "cataclysmic event," according to ABC News, citing two officials familiar with the document's contents. "It was then briefed multiple times to" the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon’s Joint Staff and the White House."
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WNU Editor: The first cases of the coronavirus outbreak were reported in the middle of November .... Coronavirus: China’s first confirmed Covid-19 case traced back to November 17 (SCMP). More here .... First Covid-19 case happened in November, China government records show - report (The Guardian). Are we to believe that from a few cases in November the U.S. intel community made the determination that a 'cataclysmic' coronavirus crisis was around the corner and tried to warn the White House?!?!?! Even before Chinese doctors started to raise the alarm in December?!?!?! This ABC News report and the anonymous intel source makes no sense. U.S. intelligence is not that good.
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The only way they could have known is if they had intel from the biolab this came from about what it was and when it got leaked.
WNU,
You are correct US intel not that good, secret squirrel though would disagree.
WNU - US intel is not good in personal assets, James Bond stuff people who risk their lives.. they are good however in data analysis - not the best in the World, perhaps, as their ego gets in their way - but, they are still good, at least, perhaps very good in top 3. Signal analysis should be easiest to develop for this kind of stuff, even China is permissible to the Internet, Wechat is easy to monitor. This can and is done for sure. I could do it with my hands tied behind my back, and I'm not that bright either. So yeah, they can do that very, very easily and reliably. What they may struggle with is false information, e.g. China certainly also uses Wechat and other Chinese dominant media outlets for propagating false information, information that - if we were to believe it - would be harmful to us, but say legal responsibility would be deniable, or at least very hard to prove as WeChat is Chinese gov dominated. What they say goes. In the US it is not much better. We are just better at pretending, I believe. And we call it "progressive agenda", it is the same, just different motives. Pushing something on us, we didn't vote for. It happens all the time. The media is the outlet of policy makers, to test, get feedback (you know, the simplest A/B split test that Trump does during his campaigns), and on and on. We just don't want to admit it, because we find it somewhat ugly. But.. it somewhat works. As long as the fact checkers stay unbiased. Stay professional. And it is so hard, for everyone. :) Models are biased too. Fauci, is biased in some regard too. He wants to believe in one model more than another. Humans are so flawed. On other news: Space is now open for commercial first come, first serve style exploration. That is -so- smart. ;)
The report highlights that officials had knowledge to begin acting against the coronavirus months before it struck the U.S., ABC News noted.
"Analysts concluded it could be a cataclysmic event," one of the sources told the network, who added that the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon’s Joint Staff and the White House were briefed "multiple times."
After the NCMI report, policymakers, decisionmakers and the National Security Council at the White House were repeatedly briefed on the issue, a source added.
The coronavirus first appeared in the President’s Daily Brief of intelligence matters in early January, according to ABC News.
Those who worked on presidential briefings in Republican and Democratic administrations said the initial concerns would have gone through weeks of vetting and analysis before appearing in the daily brief.
"The timeline of the intel side of this may be further back than we’re discussing," a source said of preliminary reports from Wuhan, the city considered the initial epicenter of the outbreak in China. "But this was definitely being briefed beginning at the end of November as something the military needed to take a posture on."
Democrats demand Jared Kushner's emails with FEMA about ventilators as his father-in-law Donald Trump boasts that he is sending Colorado 100 ventilators 'at request' of its struggling Republican senator
House Democrats are demanding answers from the Trump administration on Jared Kushner's role in controlling the supply chain of medical supplies
Two committee chairs asked FEMA for 'all communications between any FEMA employee and Jared Kushner' on the issue
States have complained about the lack of ventilators, personal protective gear and other necessary equipment as they battle the coronavirus
Lawmakers request comes as President Trump tweeted Colorado would get 100 ventilators at the request of embattled GOP Sen. Cory Gardner
2:11
2:11 has target fixation. Such a simple mind. They keep revising down the number of ICU beds, and ventilators needed. This won't be a thing in May.
I would suggest that 2:11 aka Shithead read up on ionophores. Maybe then they won't embarrass themselves in the future.
Somehow I do not think shithead will expand their English vocabulary. I think they have resisted expanding their vocabulary their whole life. There goes the lemming.
Before you get critical about language, learn about pronoun agreement
I'll stick with "themselves". It could be more than one person.
President Trump is slamming the World Health Organization for its coronavirus response, threatening to cut off funding for it during a global pandemic.
So why is it his new target?
The WHO can certainly be criticized for giving China too much benefit of the doubt at the beginning of this pandemic. But Trump and his allies in the Senate and on Fox News take it too far with their criticisms, says Stephen Morrison, a global public health expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
“It’s trying to deflect blame from this catastrophe away from Trump and back onto the Chinese,” he said. Morrison described attempts by Trump and his allies to undermine the WHO and its leadership in the middle of a pandemic as “dangerous and totally inappropriate.”
Others worry that this fight between the United States and China, with the world’s leading health organization in the middle, is a distraction. “Many of the things the Trump administration has done to highlight the threats that China poses is correct,” Asia-Pacific expert Bonnie Glaser, also at CSIS, told Politico. “At this particular moment in time, I think we should be prioritizing other issues."
The WHO, meanwhile, implicitly accused Trump of politicizing the virus and warned that doing so will lead to “many more body bags.”
One thing we know: When Trump finds someone to blame, such as governors, he doesn’t let up easily.
New polls released this week show most Americans disapprove of President Donald Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic – a marked shift as the death toll climbs in the United States.
Trump, who is running for reelection in November, initially downplayed the threat posed by the coronavirus before taking action to mitigate its spread. His approval rating initially rose, but as the virus hammered the economy and more Americans became infected, views on how he has handled the outbreak have taken a negative turn.
In a CNN poll released Wednesday, 52% disapproved of how Trump was combating the virus, up from about 48% disapproval in early March's CNN poll. When asked about Trump's handling of the pandemic at the beginning of March, 41% approved and 48% disapproved.
The federal government as a whole fared worse in the CNN poll, with 55% disapproving of its response and 41% approving, compared with 48% approving and 47% disapproving in CNN's poll at the end of March.
More:Trump says he never saw aide's memos that warned coronavirus could endanger millions of Americans
Opinions on Trump's handling of the crisis mostly broke down along partisan lines: 88% of Republicans approved of Trump, 14% of Democrats approved, and 45% of independents approved.
CNN's poll was done April 3-6 with a sample size of 1,002 Americans and a margin of error of 3.7 percentage points.
A Monmouth University poll released Wednesday also showed public approval of Trump's coronavirus response slipping. Forty-six percent of respondents said Trump was doing a good job and 49% said he was doing a bad job. In March, half of respondents said he was doing a good job and 45% said he was doing a bad job. Monmouth's poll was surveyed April 3-7 with a sample size of 857 adults and a margin of error of 3.4 percentage points.
Idiot 6:03
You have not read the polls about how mad the American people are at WHO. Get in form of that ship and see if you can turn it ha ha. Your Trump angle is not going to work. We have Tedro's own quotes. So have fun pissing into the wind, buddy.
Idiot 6:13
Many of us have bookmarks to pollsters or news websites. We do not need the help of some congenital idiot.
CNN is not a reliable news organization. In fact, it is not a news organization, but a propaganda outfit and very bad one at that. It employs Yellow journalists like Berman and insane anchors like "Sniff my Finger" Lemon. To use polls in an in your face manner suggest that you are not trying to convince people but dispirit them. You just make them angry and more determined to vote for trump. I think you know that, so again you are trying to dispirit people not convince. You akin in spirit to Lord Haw Haw or Tokyo Rose.
You're right, it's Lapides in his relentless search for the golden nut.
I was reading about this bio weapon in the summer of 2019.
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