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The whistleblower, who presents as a highly credible senior-level CIA officer, alleges that of the seven members assigned to the CIA team tasked with analyzing COVID-19 origins, six officers concluded that the virus likely originated from a lab in Wuhan, China.

Seems like there should be an easy paper trail on this, right? Why cite the whistleblower? Why not just go straight to the document containing the opinions, wherever that may be?

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WTF?

> who presents as a highly credible senior-level CIA officer

Isn’t this just telling us that the outlet was unable to confirm that the “whistleblower” was either generally credible or any kind of insider, while trying to put a positive spin on it?

FWIW, I took that from the official press release from house.gov[0], not this publication.

[0]https://oversight.house.gov/release/testimony-from-cia-whist...

“presents as” is a pretty wild bit, too. They gave the impression of being a spook

It could be any number of Alex Jones guests.

Because we have insane and unconstitutional-yet-enforced laws that criminalize stating facts such as "xyz is employed by the CIA".

The author seems to believe (and is probably correct) that these laws don't apply to stating the impression of spookiness that was given to them.

Yes it's nuts, but the laws in this space are nuts.

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