Are these the West's intelligence services, or China's?

Before getting to that, the New York Times now admits the truth: Yes, covid-19 came from the Wuhan lab.

Why did they participate in this massive lying psyop against the American people?

They didn't, they say! They were "badly misled," you see.

Now, the NYT -- and not even in its own editorial voice -- wants to play victim of The Science(R):

Since scientists first began playing around with dangerous pathogens in laboratories, the world has experienced four or five pandemics, depending on how you count. One of them, the 1977 Russian flu, was almost certainly sparked by a research mishap. Some Western scientists quickly suspected the odd virus had resided in a lab freezer for a couple of decades, but they kept mostly quiet for fear of ruffling feathers.

Yet in 2020, when people started speculating that a laboratory accident might have been the spark that started the Covid-19 pandemic, they were treated like kooks and cranks. Many public health officials and prominent scientists dismissed the idea as a conspiracy theory, insisting that the virus had emerged from animals in a seafood market in Wuhan, China. And when a nonprofit called EcoHealth Alliance lost a grant because it was planning to conduct risky research into bat viruses with the Wuhan Institute of Virology -- research that, if conducted with lax safety standards, could have resulted in a dangerous pathogen leaking out into the world -- no fewer than 77 Nobel laureates and 31 scientific societies lined up to defend the organization.

So, the Wuhan research was totally safe and the pandemic was definitely caused by natural transmission: It certainly seemed like consensus.

We have since learned, however, that to promote the appearance of consensus, some officials and scientists hid or understated crucial facts, misled at least one reporter, orchestrated campaigns of supposedly independent voices and even compared notes about how to hide their communications in order to keep the public from hearing the whole story. And as for that Wuhan laboratory's research, the details that have since emerged show that safety precautions may have been terrifyingly lax.

Ahem. "Has since emerged" is doing an awful lot of heavy lifting here. As early as April 2020, those "terrifyingly lax" protocols had already come to light. We also knew at that same time that the State Department had flagged the Wuhan Institute of Virology for violating safety protocols required for the kind of gain-of-function research it was conducting as far back as 2018. We also knew that The Science(R) still had zero evidence for a natural zoonotic leap to humans to explain the outbreak epicentered in the same town as the lab:

"The idea that is was just a totally natural occurrence is circumstantial. The evidence it leaked from the lab is circumstantial. Right now, the ledger on the side of it leaking from the lab is packed with bullet points and there's almost nothing on the other side," the official said.

As my colleague David Ignatius noted, the Chinese government's original story -- that the virus emerged from a seafood market in Wuhan -- is shaky. Research by Chinese experts published in the Lancet in January showed the first known patient, identified on Dec. 1, had no connection to the market, nor did more than one-third of the cases in the first large cluster. Also, the market didn't sell bats.

And yet, the New York Times went out of its way -- as did the rest of the Protection Racket Media -- to spend years treating anyone who questioned the "consensus" around a natural zoonotic leap as either a crank, a racist, or worse. Even when hints that the intel community had its doubts about the "consensus," the media rushed to defend The Science(R) from any scrutiny whatsoever.

The Regime is abandoning the China-protecting cover story of a "wet market spillover." The lie just won't hold, and is causing the world's "intelligence" services, leftwing media, and leftwing government officials further losses of credibility they just can't afford.

So the truth is being dripped out, slowly.

We just found out that Germany's intelligence services concluded long ago with 80-95% confidence that covid-19 was cooked up in Fauci's Wuhan branch.

Now it turns out that MI-6 always knew the truth, too.

Not only did they lie, but the "intelligence" services targeted people telling the truth for censorship, debanking, and reputation-destroying smears.