The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee slammed the declassified Wuhan lab report on the origins of the COVID-19 virus as "not sufficient."
The 10-page report, which was released on Friday, featured very few new details leaving many, including Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH), wanting more information to be released by the intelligence community.
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"We passed a law saying declassify the information you have about the COVID [pandemic] and Wuhan lab’s activities. What they did is basically went and did a paper on what they believe about the intelligence they’ve looked at. To give you an example, we’ve asked to open the curtain and release the intelligence, and they went behind the curtain, read the stuff, and came out and said this is what we think about it," Turner said on CBS News's Face the Nation on Sunday.
"This is not sufficient, and this is going to set up a battle between the Congress and the director of national intelligence to make certain that law passed unanimously—both the Senate and House and signed by the president — is complied with, but also the American public get the answers they deserve," he added.
When asked if he had seen the classified annex part of the report, Turner said he had not but argued that portion of the report should be public based on the law Congress passed declassifying the intelligence.
"I haven’t had access to it in a classified setting, but even releasing a classified annex goes against what the law says. The law says declassify — not give us more classified information. My committee has seen a significant amount of this intelligence; giving my committee more intelligence doesn’t give it to the public," Turner said.
Turner stressed the importance of the intelligence being declassified, to allow those outside of government to continue to research where COVID-19 may have originated from.
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"We want the intelligence released and their opinion about the released. If we wanted their opinion we would have asked for it. We passed a law saying declassify it so the American public can see it. Experts out there in the community besides the intelligence community need to take a look at this and help us understand what really happened, that resulted in millions of people dying,"
The House and Senate both passed the bill requiring the declassification of intelligence on the origins of COVID-19 in March, and President Joe Biden signed the bill into law shortly after. The intelligence community missed the deadline to do so last week, but released the declassified information on Friday.