Senate Seeks Covid Origins Information Declassification (1)

The Senate voted unanimously Wednesday night to require Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines to declassify information on the origin of Covid-19.

The bill (S. 619), which was passed without objection or a roll-call vote, could put pressure on the Biden administration to voluntarily declassify.

The move comes after the Wall Street Journal reported that Haines’s office provided classified intelligence to the White House and key members of Congress showing the Energy Department had concluded Covid most likely came from a lab leak in China.

FBI Director Christopher Wray separately told Fox News this week that his agency had ...