IN THE NEWS: HOUSE MINORITY REPORT--"PLAUSIBLE" THAT CHINESE MILITARY POSSESSED COVID-19 PRIOR TO PANDEMIC AS PART OF BIO-WEAPONS RESEARCH

A congressional investigation into the origins of COVID-19 has raised the possibility that over 1 million Americans and tens of millions of people worldwide died as a result of bioweapons research conducted by elements of the Chinese military (the People's Liberation Army) with the help of U.S. federal grant money.

In their interim report released Wednesday, Republican members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence concluded that it is "plausible" that Chinese military researchers possessed the COVID-19 virus "as part of bioweapons research" prior to its release into the world as a consequence of a safety incident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

The report also suggested that there is "reason to believe that the [intelligence community] downplayed the possibility" that the virus was linked to China's bioweapons program.What are the details?

Several House Republicans issued a joint statement on Wednesday, claiming the minority interim report's "findings identify more culpability from the Chinese Communist Party.....MORE AT House minority report: 'Plausible' that Chinese military possessed COVID-19 prior to pandemic 'as part of bioweapons research' - TheBlaze