You would think that Mike Pompeo would attempt a more credible issue to make a “come-back” than the Wuhan Lab-Leak Theory, which has been discredited by all except the “true believers.” Interviewed in today’s Washington Times by the obsessive Bill Gertz, ever eager to exploit a new — or stale — anti-China story, Pompeo introduced his somewhat shaky “circumstantial evidence.”
“I was in a position where we could see the accumulating evidence,” Pompeo boasted, suggesting that the Wuhan lab provided “real tactical clues.” The story that the virus could have emanated from the Wuhan wild animal market became more and more unlikely, Pompeo claimed — giving no particular reason for rejecting that hypothesis. The “clues” elicited by this intrepid Inspector Clouseau, included doctors at the institute who reportedly contracted COVID-like symptoms in the Fall of 2019, although there are no indications for anyone from the institute being hospitalized at the time, as well as “secret military work being done by the PLA". Since it was secret, there is no need for facts to explain what that work actually consisted of, let alone whether there was any such work going on at all. The only “evidence” he presented for the latter claim is based on the most sophistical syllogistic nonsense, namely that since the Chinese security apparatus controls everything in China, therefore work in the virology lab in China must have involved work for the Chinese security apparatus!
The conclusions Pompeo drew are that the WHO, which has conducted a thorough investigation of the lab and have found NO evidence of a lab leak, must expel China from the organization. In addition China must be made to pay for all the deaths of 3.5 million people worldwide. Any assets connected to China’s BRI should be frozen. In addition, the Wuhan Institute of Virology should be shut down, and President Xi should be held responsible for a cover-up!
Pompeo also defended himself against charges of organizing a rogue task force at the State Department to investigate the origins of the coronavirus led by none other than Miles Yu, a military historian. This particular operation was exposed by the former head of the State Department’s arms control compliance directorate, Christopher Ford (who would later resign, after the events on January 6). Ford wrote a letter exposing the fraudulent operation led by Yu and David Asher, a consultant, noting that their purpose was to find evidence to accuse China of violating the Biological Weapons Convention by creating the virus. In his letter exposing the operation, Ford wrote incredulously, “They seemed to believe that Covid-19 was a biological weapons effort gone awry — or perhaps a BW agent deliberately unleashed on the world.” This is undoubtedly the delusion that our former Secretary of State is still under, and he should seek help before it gets out of control.
