Dir. John Ratcliffe on Intelligence Community Lying to American People on Origins of COVID

Director John Ratcliffe at Heritage in 2024 on the origins of COVID: When I became DNI in 2020, I asked to see the evidence that COVID was a natural occurrence. The evidence said exactly the opposite. It indicated that COVID was the result of a research related incident.

On July 8, 2024, Heritage released the results of our Nonpartisan Commission on China and COVID-19, which was tasked with assessing and calculating the human toll and economic damages caused by the Chinese government, and to make recommendations to hold China accountable.

By that point, it was clearer than ever that the intelligence community was lying to the American people about COVID’s true origins and was engaged in a massive cover-up. Less than a year later, Director Ratcliffe is back at DNI and has already begun exposing what the Deep State spent years trying to hide while calling reasonable conclusions about COVID’s origins dangerous conspiracy theories.

You can read the full findings from our Commission on China and COVID19, led by then Heritage Visiting Fellow John Ratcliffe, here