They also report Dr. Redfield's congressional testiomny that "Money from multiple agencies funded high-risk research in Wuhan." Though they don't confirm that or even advance that part of the story, it's interesting that a Regime propaganda outlet is giving it prominent reporting.

You don't say, CBS News. You don't say.

Remember two months ago when CBS News was able to confirm the contents of Hunter Biden's laptop?

The news admitted by the Regime is always years behind the actual news.

This report is mostly about Wuhan possibly double-billing the US government and bilking us out of millions, but the grabbier part is the acknowledgement by Regime Television that we probably financed covid-19.

The U.S. government may have made duplicate payments for projects at labs in Wuhan, China, through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), according to records reviewed by CBS News.

"What I've found so far is evidence that points to double billing, potential theft of government funds. It is concerning, especially since it involves dangerous pathogens and risky research," said Diane Cutler, a former federal investigator with over two decades of experience combating white-collar crime and healthcare fraud.

Cutler found evidence of possible double payments as she investigated U.S. government grants that supported high risk research in China leading up to the COVID-19 pandemic. She was hired by Republican Sen. Roger Marshall, who took her records to USAID and the internal watchdog at USAID, which launched a new probe, details of which have not been previously reported.

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Sources told CBS News that tens of millions of dollars could be involved.

Sources familiar with the grant records did not dispute CBS News' reporting.

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Marshall is now calling for a 9/11-style commission.

"I think there's 1.1 million reasons that American taxpayers should care," he said. "You'll have a plane crashes. We want to find out why the plane crashes. We go to any lengths to do that. And the hope is we don't have another plane crash for the same reason."

While intelligence agencies have not been able to reach a consensus on the origin of the pandemic, the FBI and Energy Department have found an accidental lab leak is plausible. The Wuhan Institute of Virology conducted viral research in the city where the SARS-CoV-2 virus first emerged.

During a recent congressional hearing regarding the origins of COVID-19, the House voted unanimously on a bill ordering the declassification of intelligence about the origins. Robert Redfield, the former director of the CDC, testified that money from the NIH, the State Department, USAID and the Defense Department provided funding for high-risk virus research in Wuhan.

Meanwhile, Anthony "The Science" Fauci spoke with a very, very friendly Regime propagandist, Jim Acosta, and reminded everyone that if Wuhan were collecting bat viruses and a worker got sick with such a virus and then spread it out into the world, that would be a "lab leak," but that would still be a naturally-arising virus.

This is what Nixon called the "modified limited hang-out" -- beginning to let out a lie which is nevertheless closer to the truth than the previous story. Anthony "The Science" Fauci is offering up this new story because the old story is "no longer operative."

Meanwhile, "The Science" plays the usual leftwing criminal card of claiming that he must not be criticized because when you criticize him, not only are you attacking "The Science," but you are causing "The Science" to receive death threats so you can't criticize him.

You can, of course, continue attacking Supreme Court Justices, and explicitly calling for them to "never have a moment's peace again."