For now, links to a Congressional hearing via ScheerPost and to reports from National Review and the Associated Press; other published material is accessible by clicking on their names or initials. (Scroll up for today’s GAZA and WEST BANK so far, and down for COVID ETC 8-4-26, or click HERE.) — MCM

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AUG. 12 and MAY 13  CIA whistleblower alleges officials manipulated Covid-19 origins assessment. Via ScheerPost. Subpoenaed former senior CIA official James Erdman III tells the Senate Homeland Security Committee that agency managers suppressed the judgments of experienced scientists and pressured analysts to abandon conclusions supporting a possible laboratory origin of Covid-19. Click HERE for print intro and video of hearing. Click HERE for report from National Review.

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FROM APRIL 19  How the search for the origins of Covid-19 turned politically poisonous, by Dake Kang and Maria Cheng | AP  BEIJING — The hunt for the origins of Covid-19 has gone dark in China, the victim of political infighting after a series of stalled and thwarted attempts to find the source of the virus that killed millions and paralyzed the world for months. Click HERE for report including photos.

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TO BE CONTINUED