Daily Mail: Medical intelligence chief DENIES there was a memo warning about coronavirus in November after revelation Donald Trump was told about it early in January
* U.S. intelligence picked up information on 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 gained through human intel, computers, and satellites, ABC News reports
* National Center for Medical Intelligence documented concerns
* Information was included in President's Daily Brief in January after weeks of vetting
* This week it was revealed trade advisor Peter Navarro penned doomsday memos about the coronavirus in January and February
The head of a Defense Intelligence Agency center has denied a report that its medical health team issued a memo to the White House warning of a spreading outbreak in Wuhan, China based on information it gleaned back to November.
The denial followed a report Wednesday that officials around the U.S. government received a warning about the growing contagion – culminating its inclusion in the President's Daily Brief in early January.
'As a matter of practice the National Center for Medical Intelligence does not comment publicly on specific intelligence matters,' Col. R. Shane Day, the center's director said in a rare public statement on an intelligence matter.
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Previous Post: ABC News: U.S. Intelligence Warn Of A 'Cataclysmic' Coronavirus Crisis In November (April 9, 2020).
WNU Editor: Here is an easy prediction. ABC News will stick with their story, and those who want to believe in the existence of such a memo will not change their point of view. Can anyone say "fake news" .... AGAIN!
More News On The U.S. Medical Intelligence Chief Denying US Media Reports That There Was A Memo Warning About A Coronavirus Outbreak In November 2019
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Trump Says He Never Saw Intelligence Community Reports on Initial Coronavirus Outbreak -- Newsweek
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wnu, no no.. look it's only true if it supports the narrative on the left, you see? :)
If it hurts Trump it must be right, even if the agency in question denies it/calls it false in so many words.. ahhhh must be nice to be on the left, never to be right politically, intellectually or otherwise, and people keep their jobs. And they love to look into the mirror every morning - can you imagine Don Lemon? I'm sure he is still friends with Jessie Smollet, that race baiter who tried to get money out of almost starting a race war.
And yesterday Parrot trumpeted the ABC report and put us through more shit, because it supported the narrative of its faction. Maybe he is embarrassed and that is why it is not here today. But fear not, on Friday or Saturday at the latest, it will be back after downloading some more talking point memos.
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But the Washington Post reported that Trump and Congress ignored reports from US intelligence agencies starting in January that warned of the scale and intensity of the coronavirus outbreak in China. And Trump's trade adviser Peter Navarro warned internally in a memo in late January that the coronavirus could develop into a "full-blown pandemic," risking the health of millions and trillions of dollars in economic losses, CNN previously reported.
Navarro warned in a second memo less than a month later that the risk of a pandemic was rising and urged the White House's coronavirus task force to secure billions in supplemental spending. Both memos were first reported by The New York Times and Axios.
The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA. We are in contact with everyone and all relevant countries. CDC & World Health have been working hard and very smart. Stock Market starting to look very good to me!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 24, 2020
Privately, Trump reportedly rebutted health and intelligence officials’ attempts to get him to take action to prepare communities in the US while rebuking officials who were delivering sober risk assessments.
For instance, in late February, when Nancy Messonnier, director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said, “It’s not a question of if [community spread] will happen, but when this will happen, and how many people in this country will have severe illnesses,” Trump reportedly responded by calling Azar to complain “that Messonnier was scaring the stock markets, according to two senior administration officials,” the Post reports.
Because that guy denies it does not mean it is so! we have been fed many lies.
As the information was refined and verified, it was only included in the President's Daily Brief, a key intelligence document, in early January – days after China informed global health officials of the new coronavirus outbreak.
However sources 'described repeated briefings through December for policy-makers and decision-makers across the federal government as well as the National Security Council at the White House,' according to the report.
The briefings of an issue the military needed to be aware of went back as far as late November, according to the report.
The National Center for Medical Intelligence (NCMI), part of the nation's sprawling military intelligence service, with offices in Ft. Detrick, Maryland, produced the report.
U.S. intelligence officials warned in November that the coronavirus spreading in China’s Hubei region could become a “cataclysmic event,” ABC News reported Wednesday.
The military’s National Center for Medical Intelligence (NCMI) documented concerns about the initial stages of the pandemic in an intelligence report, two officials familiar with the document told ABC News, which added that the document highlighted how the virus was disrupting life and business and threatened the population in the area.
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.
"The timeline of the intel side of this may be further back than we’re discussing," said one of ABC's sources. "But this was definitely being briefed beginning at the end of November as something the military needed to take a posture on."
The report was the result of analysis of wire and computer intercepts, coupled with satellite images. It raised alarms because an out-of-control disease would pose a serious threat to U.S. forces in Asia -- forces that depend on the NCMI’s work. And it paints a picture of an American government that could have ramped up mitigation and containment efforts far earlier to prepare for a crisis poised to come home. -ABC News
And right as House Democrats hit peak TDS in December - approving impeachment articles against Trump over his request that Ukraine investigate what appeared to be textbook corruption by Joe Biden and his son Hunter, US intelligence gave repeated briefings to officials across the federal government, along with the the National Security Council at the White House - where whistleblower Eric Ciaramella worked. Perhaps if the NSC and the Democrats hadn't been distracted with a partisan boondoggle to remove Trump, measures could have been taken earlier to better prepare America from the emerging threat.
ah..he/she is bck from diaper change with of course nothing but girlish snark because she never has anything to say, to comment but gossipy attacks...fact: that last comment from Zero Hedge...now that source often cited here. Are they not to be trusted but some stool, working for lying president is to be taken at his word? All sources reporting this are wrong and lying because no lies ever come from the administration, right?
Ok. loser...now dump more girly boy venom while you apply your makeup
As President Donald Trump assured the public his administration was properly handling the new coronavirus, a document from the Department of Defense showed that officials are preparing for the possibility that COVID-19 may have a significant global impact.
The warning came as part of Thursday's Joint Chief of Staff daily intelligence brief and, according to a document obtained by Newsweek, officials expect COVID-19 will "likely" become a global pandemic within the next 30 days.
Officials have expected global cases would spread. On Tuesday, the National Center for Medical Intelligence (NCMI) raised the Risk of Pandemic warning. It went from WATCHCON 2, a probable crisis, to WATCHCON 1, an imminent crisis, due to sustained human-to-human transmission outside of China, according to a report summary obtained by Newsweek.
COVID-19 has touched every inhabitable continent, infecting more than 82,000 people worldwide since it was first identified last December, including potentially 65 people in the United States. Of the cases in the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed two were of unknown origin, indicating the possibility of community spread. Then on Saturday, a woman in Washington state became the first death in America.
Now, doctors and scientists are trying to trace the virus back to where it originated to learn more about its spread. If, for instance, doctors can find the earliest cases, they may be able to identify the animal host where the virus lurks.
They found that following the Nov. 17 case, about one to five new cases were reported every day and by Dec. 15, the total infections reached 27. Daily cases seem to have increased after that, with the case count reaching 60 by Dec. 20, the SCMP reported.
On Dec. 27, Dr. Zhang Jixian, head of the respiratory department at Hubei Provincial Hospital, reported to health officials in China that a novel coronavirus was causing the disease; by that day, it had infected more than 180 individuals. (Doctors may not have been aware of all of those cases at the time, but only identified those cases after going back over the records, the Morning Post reported.)
Even with this Nov. 17 case identified, doctors can't be certain the individual is "patient zero," or the very first individual to have been infected with SARS-CoV-2, and there's a chance even earlier cases will be found, the SCMP reported.
They said that the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon’s Joint Staff, and the White House were all made aware of the outbreak in November, making the American government’s delayed and disjointed response to the pandemic all the more alarming.
“Analysts concluded it could be a cataclysmic event,” one of the officials told ABC News.
The Chinese government didn’t disclose the outbreak until December 27, meaning the U.S. had an extra month to try and prepare for the onslaught.
In January, the U.S. confirmed its first case of COVID-19. Trump downplayed the outbreak and didn’t declare a state of emergency until mid-March. Tests and treatments for the disease still remain inaccessible.
If ABC News‘ sources are telling the truth about the NCMI report — the Pentagon denies that it exists — that means that the U.S. government chose to ignore the threat of the new coronavirus for months.
“It’s not surprising to me that the intelligence community detected the outbreak,” former Department of Homeland Security undersecretary and current ABC News contributor John Cohen told ABC. “What is surprising and disappointing is that the White House ignored the clear warning signs, failed to follow established pandemic response protocols and were slow to put in place a government-wide effort to respond to this crisis.”
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10 posts. It must have cut into its quality time.
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Newsweek! Lololololo!
"If" ABC' sources are telling the truth, Lololololo!
Classic Lapides, and you chaired an English Department?
Here goes Lapides again citing a parade of conditionals by unnamed sources, panting!
He's baaaack!
Another lying Lapides special " according to two senior administration officials" conveniently unnamed.
The best part is how Lapides brags about his Intel experience, but for some odd reason always loses to "girly boys", you got to give him credit whatever he writes it's funny!
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