Yet Another Reason To Reform Or Abolish The Intelligence Agencies

The New York Post reports that "Spy bosses ‘silenced’ Defense Department, FBI scientists from briefing Biden on COVID lab leak evidence."  The story has to do with an assessment Biden ordered in May 2021 on the origins of Covid 19. According to the article:

    The analysis was conducted by John Hardham, Robert Cutlip and Jean-Paul Chretien, three scientists in the Defense Intelligence Agency’s National Center for Medical Intelligence, which is tasked with examining potential biological weapons threats and dangerous infectious diseases.

    Among their damning findings:

•     The COVID virus contained a feature allowing for easier transmission to humans that was constructed in a manner similar to that described in a years-old Chinese study
•     A Chinese military researcher applied for a patent for a COVID-19 vaccine just weeks after the virus was first sequenced in 2020. (He later died after falling from the infamous Wuhan Institute of Virology’s roof, according to US investigators.)
•     WIV researchers worked with US researchers who trained them to construct viruses without leaving a trace of them being engineered.

Rather than amplifying these findings, they were all but ignored as Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines was preparing her report on COVID origins — which Biden ordered in May 2021.

    “The scientists who had the subject matter expertise were silenced,” the source said, noting that Biden and others remained “completely unwitting” about the evidence that SARS-CoV-2 likely leaked out of a lab.

    The spy chiefs further forbade the scientists from sharing the information with Congress — even after Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) expressly requested them in a March 2021 letter — or from rebutting a since-disgraced May 2020 paper — prompted by Fauci — that sought to discredit the lab leak theory.

If the intelligence community alters important information and conclusions to cover up for a foreign power widely considered to be an enemy, why should they be trusted to deliver any useful intelligence? And if they can't be trusted to deliver useful intelligence, why have them?