Posted on 04/08/2020 2:19:25 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
As far back as late November, U.S. intelligence officials were warning that a contagion was sweeping through China’s Wuhan region, changing the patterns of life and business and posing a threat to the population, according to four sources briefed on the secret reporting.
Concerns about what is now known to be the novel coronavirus pandemic were detailed in a November intelligence report by the military's National Center for Medical Intelligence (NCMI), according to two officials familiar with the document’s contents.
The report was the result of analysis of wire and computer intercepts, coupled with satellite images. It raised alarms because an out-of-control disease would pose a serious threat to U.S. forces in Asia -- forces that depend on the NCMI’s work. And it paints a picture of an American government that could have ramped up mitigation and containment efforts far earlier to prepare for a crisis poised to come home.
"Analysts concluded it could be a cataclysmic event," one of the sources said of the NCMI’s report. "It was then briefed multiple times to" the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon’s Joint Staff and the White House.
From that warning in November, the sources described repeated briefings through December for policy-makers and decision-makers across the federal government as well as the National Security Council at the White House. All of that culminated with a detailed explanation of the problem that appeared in the President’s Daily Brief of intelligence matters in early January, the sources said. For something to have appeared in the PDB, it would have had to go through weeks of vetting and analysis, according to people who have worked on presidential briefings in both Republican and Democratic administrations.
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Obama knew....
“SQUIRREL”
Do yourself a large favor today.
Ignore this garbage.
ABC/DISNEY can GFT, and they’ll love it.
In trying to slam our President, ABC News really humiliates China. Only two take aways from this article:
1) China was deliberately-deceiving the world, or
2) China was too stupid to know what our government supposedly knew.
Is that really what ABC News intended to reveal?
That didn't happen, I dunno who makes that stuff up.
And the democrats still went through with a sham impeachment. What a shame.
Same playbook...9/11 all over again...”Bush knew Bin Laden would attack on 9/11”...received a Presidential Daily Brief on 6 AUG 01...
Nothing surprising.
And in January Trump issued the first travel ban on folks incoming from China. Yes, it was an “imperfect” ban, but it did help, it did reduce the flow.
“...Two authors. I point that out because many leftist articles have multiple authors. Why is that?...”
Well, they’re dumber than a box of rocks so they have to combine their brains in an attempt to make a somewhat whole one.
What I don’t understand is how Trump was able to keep this information from those super-sharp and Intel Community connected DemocRats on the House and Senate intelligence committees. /off sarc
Cue up the “whistleblower” next......
You would think other leaders around the world were getting similar “intelligence” info. Perhaps all of them simultaneously had a case of mind freeze.
Do yourself a large favor today.
Ignore this garbage.
ABC/DISNEY can GFT, and they’ll love it.
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