President Donald Trump called a report on what spies learned in November a 'Hoax'
Daily Mail: Now U.S. spies are reported to have produced a 'situation report' at the end of November hinting at a public health crisis in China after seeing evidence of increased activity at hospitals
* This week has featured a flurry of reports on information U.S. intelligence picked up about a spreading outbreak in China's Wuhan province in November
* It wasn't until December 31 that China informed global health officials of the new coronavirus outbreak
* Information was included in President's Daily Brief in January after weeks of vetting
* Spies gained information gained through human intel, computers, and satellites
* Defense officials back on ABC News report that December report featured intel dating back to November
* Trump hit back Thursday night, calling it 'fake news' and a 'Hoax'
* New report says spies collected raw intelligence in November and put it in 'situation report'
* This week it was revealed trade advisor Peter Navarro penned doomsday memos about the coronavirus in January and February
U.S. spies officials collected raw intelligence about a developing health situation in Wuhan, China in November and put it into a report that got shared with federal officials – but didn't warn that a pandemic was forming, according to the latest disclosure in how the administration learned about the coronavirus.
The report of a more calibrated November caution by U.S. spies comes after an onslaught of pushback from the Trump administration to an earlier report this week that spies caught wind of the developing coronavirus and drafted a memo that made it to the White House with the November information.
President Trump called that report a 'Hoax' in a tweet very early Friday morning.
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WNU Editor: Here we go again. Just like the mainstream media's Russian-collusion coverage for almost two and a half years, a major news network (ABC News) is using the same playbook, but this time they are saying that anonymous sources are telling them that US intelligence was aware of a medical-health crisis in China in November and tried to warn the White House. Sighhh .... regular readers of this blog know that this blog predicted this doubling down yesterday .... U.S. Medical Intelligence Chief Denies US Media Reports That There Was A Memo Warning About A Coronavirus Outbreak In November 2019 (April 9, 2020). My only advice to ABC News and news outlets like the the Daily Mail is the following. When it comes to using anonymous sources on President Trump, your record sucks. You have to do better.
Update: This is the second article that I have read in the past week that provides concrete evidence on when the Covid-19 virus was first detected .... Signs that coronavirus was spreading in Wuhan earlier than thought, study finds (SCMP). Data that was available to no until now.
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I dumped Zerohedge. I have been really close to dumping the Daily Mail for 2 weeks now.
Part of Daily Mail is click bait. I understand that. They need revenue. That is pardonable.
A running joke among Daily Mail readership is the poor to nonexistent copy editing at the paper. It gets worse at Xmas. People joke that the interns are left alone and so the grammar, spelling, and essay skills really go south.
The above 2 items are irritants. But on top of the irritation, if objectivity goes out the window, they might as well get use to less advert revenue.
Daily mail is or was popular because it will (or use to) run stories and pictures t
hat the US Legacy Media of the Democrat party would not run. If Daily Mail is not careful, they could lose 30% to 50 % of their readership.
This is EXACTLY what someone like Fred needs to fuel his orange man bad syndrome and cognitive yeast infection. He is such a good boi :)
It has become rather obvious we should hire NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, etc for our national intel work and dump our existing group after all the above do it so much better, just ask them.
Fred here:
Trump, being exposed, thanks a GOP paid operative and yet we do not have the Luntz evidence that tv news reports were incorrect. I will continue to believe independent news before Luntz/Trump since the news has no skin in the game
According to two officials familiar with a report from the military’s National Center for Medical Intelligence, the White House was aware of a contagion which is now known to be COVID-19 as early as November. According to ABC News, the report, made up of data intercepts and satellite imagery, determined that the coronavirus was a potential threat to U.S. troops in the region. “Analysts concluded it could be a cataclysmic event,” a source told ABC News. “It was then briefed multiple times to the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon’s Joint Staff and the White House.”
Though Defense Secretary Mark Esper told ABC News on Sunday that the National Security Council was not briefed about the matter in December, the ABC News report says that the administration was aware of its contents as early as Thanksgiving:
The NCMI report was made available widely to people authorized to access intelligence community alerts. Following the report’s release, other intelligence community bulletins began circulating through confidential channels across the government around Thanksgiving, the sources said. Those analyses said China’s leadership knew the epidemic was out of control even as it kept such crucial information from foreign governments and public health agencies.
“The timeline of the intel side of this may be further back than we’re discussing,” the source said of preliminary reports from Wuhan. “But this was definitely being briefed beginning at the end of November as something the military needed to take a posture on.”
The report adds to many Americans concerns that the Trump administration’s sluggish response compounded the crisis in the U.S., where hospitals have had to make due with a critical lack of resources and access to testing has been a distant dream. Though his administration was being briefed on the virus almost two months before, Trump made his first public comments on January 22, telling CNBC that “we have it totally under control … it’s going to be just fine.”
And, instead ofg arguing about when the Trump people were aware of the virus, note the Trump response when the virus became public knowledge: it was under control. It was nothing to worry about etc etc...and now?Trump either lied or was totally incompetent in this.
"independent news" you are a joke Lapides.
It's Lapides a proven liar!
Trump Blacklisted This Chinese Company. Now It’s Making Coronavirus Masks for U.S. Hospitals.
I make sure to record each & every WH Press “Briefing” on a daily basis. I don’t watch them, but I can’t tell you the satisfaction it gives me to delete them sight unseen.
— Mark Hamill (@HamillHimself) April 10, 2020
Hamill’s tweet came amid growing criticism of Trump’s conduct at the pressers, which the conservative Wall Street Journal’s editorial board this week described as “boring” and “notably off-key” and Fox News’ Brit Hume suggested should focus more on what public health officials have to say, rather than the president.
When Donald Trump begrudged federal aid for Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria, and for California during its deadly 2018 wildfires, and blamed those places for those natural disasters, even Republicans were shocked.
None could recall a president publicly complaining about the federal disaster relief role, or expressing resentment towards the victims.
It was possible at the time to see Trump’s conduct as exceptional, to write it down to narrow political resentments or racism. But now, with the coronavirus emergency hitting every state simultaneously, a fuller picture is on display.
“All I want them to do, very simple, I want them to be appreciative,” Trump has said of state governors.
And: “It’s a two-way street. They have to treat us well, also.”
And: “Frankly they were, many of the states, they were totally unprepared for this. So we had to go into the federal stockpile, but we’re not an ordering clerk. They have to have for themselves.”
Clashes between presidents and states are nothing new. But according to government theorists, public affairs experts and political analysts, Trump’s rattling of the federalist compact, by which the 50 states are both autonomous and bound in a national union, is unprecedented in modern times.
“You’ve redefined the role of state governors,” said David Super, a professor at Georgetown Law.
Liar and everybody knows it.
Lololololololo!
Vice!?!? Lapides stick with lying, it's easier for you.
Those pressers are really getting to you guys, aren't they?
Lololololololo, that's all you've got, lololololololo!
This is just one of a dozen reports that reveal the US had ample warning ahead of the devastation the coronavirus could cause, but ignored intelligence reports.
President Trump tweeted his outrage at the New York Times' findings Saturday afternoon, 'When the Failing @nytimes or Amazon @washingtonpost writes a story saying “unnamed sources said”, or any such phrase where a person’s name is not used, don’t believe them. Most of these unnamed sources don’t exist. They are made up to defame & disparage. They have no “source”, the president wrote.
'Does anyone ever notice how few quotes from an actual person are given nowadays by the Lamestream Media. Very seldom. The unnamed or anonymous sources are almost always FAKE NEWS,' he continued.
Just this week it was revealed Donald Trump's trade adviser Peter Navarro issued his first grim warning in a memo dated January 29 - just days after the first COVID-19 cases were reported in the US.
At the time, Trump was publicly downplaying the risk that the novel coronavirus posed to Americans - though weeks later he would assert that no one could have predicted the devastation seen today.
Navarro penned a second memo about a month later on February 23, in which he warned that as many as two million Americans could die from the virus as it tightened its grip on the nation.
The January memo marks the earliest known high-alert to circulate within the West Wing as officials planned their first substantive steps to confront the disease that had already spiraled out of control in China.
It serves as evidence that top officials in the administration had considered the possibility of the outbreak turning into something far more serious than Trump was acknowledging publicly at the time.
'The lack of immune protection or an existing cure or vaccine would leave Americans defenseless in the case of a full-blown coronavirus outbreak on U.S. soil,' Navarro wrote.
This is just one of a dozen reports that reveal the US had ample warning ahead of the devastation the coronavirus could cause, but ignored intelligence reports.
President Trump tweeted his outrage at the New York Times' findings Saturday afternoon, 'When the Failing @nytimes or Amazon @washingtonpost writes a story saying “unnamed sources said”, or any such phrase where a person’s name is not used, don’t believe them. Most of these unnamed sources don’t exist. They are made up to defame & disparage. They have no “source”, the president wrote.
'Does anyone ever notice how few quotes from an actual person are given nowadays by the Lamestream Media. Very seldom. The unnamed or anonymous sources are almost always FAKE NEWS,' he continued.
Just this week it was revealed Donald Trump's trade adviser Peter Navarro issued his first grim warning in a memo dated January 29 - just days after the first COVID-19 cases were reported in the US.
At the time, Trump was publicly downplaying the risk that the novel coronavirus posed to Americans - though weeks later he would assert that no one could have predicted the devastation seen today.
Navarro penned a second memo about a month later on February 23, in which he warned that as many as two million Americans could die from the virus as it tightened its grip on the nation.
The January memo marks the earliest known high-alert to circulate within the West Wing as officials planned their first substantive steps to confront the disease that had already spiraled out of control in China.
It serves as evidence that top officials in the administration had considered the possibility of the outbreak turning into something far more serious than Trump was acknowledging publicly at the time.
'The lack of immune protection or an existing cure or vaccine would leave Americans defenseless in the case of a full-blown coronavirus outbreak on U.S. soil,' Navarro wrote.
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