{"id":24242,"date":"2020-04-30T14:05:22","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T21:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=24242"},"modified":"2020-04-30T14:05:22","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T21:05:22","slug":"us-intelligence-agency-investigating-virus-origin-says-covid-19-not-manmade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=24242","title":{"rendered":"US intelligence agency investigating virus origin, says COVID-19 \u2018not manmade\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\" story-text__paragraph\">The agency that oversees the entire U.S. intelligence community has released an unusual public statement on Thursday outlining its ongoing investigation of the origins of the novel coronavirus outbreak, amid reports suggesting the White House has been pressuring analysts to conclude that the outbreak spread from a lab in Wuhan, China.<\/p>\n<p class=\" story-text__paragraph\">\u201cThe entire Intelligence Community has been consistently providing critical support to U.S. policymakers and those responding to the COVID-19 virus, which originated in China,\u201d reads\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dni.gov\/index.php\/newsroom\/press-releases\/item\/2112-intelligence-community-statement-on-origins-of-covid-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the statement released<\/a>\u00a0from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. \u201cThe Intelligence Community also concurs with the wide scientific consensus that the COVID-19 virus was not manmade or genetically modified.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The agency that oversees the entire&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24243,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24242\/revisions\/24243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}