New Covid-19 origination intelligence push aimed at elevating scientific analysis
CNN
The intelligence community's push to uncover the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic has largely relied on traditional intelligence-gathering tools up until now, but President Joe Biden's 90-day "redoubled" effort is intended in part to elevate scientific analysis.
The effort will bring in the National Labs, a collection of 17 elite research facilities under the Energy Department, "because of their ability to crunch massive amounts of data," a White House official told CNN. What those "massive amounts of data" contain remains unclear, although multiple sources tell CNN it is almost certainly not a new tranche of intelligence information.President Joe Biden is expected to announce an executive order as early as Tuesday that would effectively shut down the US-Mexico border to asylum-seekers crossing illegally when a daily threshold of crossings is exceeded – a sweeping and controversial proposal that is likely to receive fierce pushback from progressives and immigration advocates.
In the days and weeks leading up Hunter Biden’s trial on felony gun charges, President Joe Biden made little attempt to distance himself from his son. Instead, Hunter Biden was seen at the White House and in Delaware at his father’s side amid what the president’s allies acknowledge is a difficult moment for both men.