Those responsible for the Russian collusion hoax appear to be behind intel operation against Trump

streiff:

On Friday, the Washington Post posted a bizarre and counterfactual story that alleges that Wuhan virus spread into the United States because President Trump ignored warnings from…get this…our intelligence agencies about a pandemic developing in China, a pandemic that was to become the foreign Chinese Wuhan Kung-Flu bat virus pandemic that has panicked us into shutting down the US economy. The bylines are Shane Harris, Greg Miller, Josh Dawsey and Ellen Nakashima. All of these will seem familiar from the Russia Hoax stories that rolled out of the Post like marbles from a bag with holes in it.

U.S. intelligence agencies were issuing ominous, classified warnings in January and February about the global danger posed by the coronavirus while President Trump and lawmakers played down the threat and failed to take action that might have slowed the spread of the pathogen, according to U.S. officials familiar with spy agency reporting.

The intelligence reports didn’t predict when the virus might land on U.S. shores or recommend particular steps that public health officials should take, issues outside the purview of the intelligence agencies. But they did track the spread of the virus in China, and later in other countries, and warned that Chinese officials appeared to be minimizing the severity of the outbreak.

Taken together, the reports and warnings painted an early picture of a virus that showed the characteristics of a globe-encircling pandemic that could require governments to take swift actions to contain it. But despite that constant flow of reporting, Trump continued publicly and privately to play down the threat the virus posed to Americans. Lawmakers, too, did not grapple with the virus in earnest until this month, as officials scrambled to keep citizens in their homes and hospitals braced for a surge in patients suffering from covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.
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“Donald Trump may not have been expecting this, but a lot of other people in the government were — they just couldn’t get him to do anything about it,” this official said. “The system was blinking red.”

What these clowns, and by clowns I mean the Eric Ciaramella squad that is still ensconced in the Intelligence Community and who regularly use their duty position to impress credulous reporters into writing hit pieces on President Trump, are trying to do is to recreate the smear directed against President George Bush over 9/11. They use the exact same tactic as they did to blame Bush for 9/11. Nebulous and non-specific warnings are issued that include nothing that is even vaguely actionable…here the warnings are alleged to have taken place…and they even use the exact same language from the 9/11 Commission Report, I recognize it from the title of the very first diary I wrote for RedState.

First off, the Secret Squirrels really weren’t needed here. There were non-governmental organizations and other parts on of the US government reporting on the epidemic in addition to open source reporting. This timeline is from Axios....
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So the US government was aware of the epidemic. What is missing from the Washington Post story is any mention of President Trump stopping travel from China on January 31 even as Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer were blasting him for overreacting.

The spin they try to attach to the story, that the government sat on its hands and did nothing, can easily be debunked. For instance, it was the administration’s decision to implement emergency provisions to allow tests for Wuhan to be expedited that now has provided a test that gives results in under an hour rather than in several days. A vaccine was moved from lab to clinical trials in a record breaking 45-days. Far from setting on its duff, a cursory check of open sources finds that the Trump administration was well aware of the danger of Wuhan virus and leaning forward....
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This is what really happened. The Intelligence Community had no interest in the Wuhan outbreak. Our intelligence capabilities in China have been gutted by a mole within the CIA and the CIA now is energetically persecuting the whistleblower who pointed out the obvious compromise of our networks. The monitoring was done by other federal agencies who actually monitor infectious disease outbreaks professionally. The extent and danger of Wuhan virus was the subject of extensive open source reporting in January and February. Far from doing nothing, the Trump administration was clearly focused on the potential danger of Wuhan virus and the missteps, such as the are, can be laid at the steps of two organizations, CDC and FDA, that initially seemed much more interested in protecting their institutional prerogatives than in a rapid response to a crisis.
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To the extent that these are the same people who pushed the Russian collusion hoax, it tells you the harm they did to the intel department's credibility by those attacks.  Bust as streiff points out, they also mischaracterized the actions of the administration.  One of the keys to any delay in action was the fact that the Chicoms actually hid the nature of the disease and its ability to spread rapidly even denying that it was contagious and the World Health Organization helped them perpetuate the scam.