CV NEWS FEED // A legal expert is suggesting that the Biden administration deliberately withheld key information about the origins of COVID-19 — evidence that could support the lab-leak theory long suppressed by China and dismissed by mainstream scientists and the media.
In a recently published opinion piece for The Hill, Jonathan Turley argued that suppressed information may have contradicted official timelines and supported the lab-leak theory, which suggests the virus originated at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Turley highlighted the timeline discrepancy, pointing to a military report released by the Trump administration, which indicates that U.S. military personnel exhibited COVID-19-like symptoms after attending the World Military Games in Wuhan in October 2019, two months before China officially acknowledged the outbreak.
Other countries reportedly made similar observations about their personnel, “suggesting that the virus was not only spreading but already raging in the area at that time,” according to Turley.
These findings contradict China’s claim that the virus emerged from a wet market in December 2019 and raise questions about whether Chinese authorities concealed information that might have helped contain the outbreak.
“The Chinese immediately moved to crush any speculation of a lab-leak,” Turley wrote. “Wuhan scientists were gagged and the Chinese refused to allow international investigators access to them or the lab in question.”
What is more troubling, according to Turley, was “not the alleged conduct of the Chinese government, but that of our own,” he said.
Despite reports of U.S. service members falling ill and repeated inquiries from Republican lawmakers, the Biden administration reportedly refused to confirm any cases and withheld a critical 2022 report on the situation. Then-Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby said in 2021 that the military had “no knowledge” of infections among participants.
“If true, the level of duplicity and dishonesty is shocking,” Turley wrote. “In the U.S. alone, more than 1.2 million died and more than 111 million were made sick by this virus. Yet the Biden administration is accused of withholding this information from the world. Why?”
He further noted that scientists within the administration who supported the lab-leak theory faced silencing and professional backlash. Citing a report from The Wall Street Journal, he explained that government scientists aligning with the lab-leak explanation were warned that they were “off the reservation.”
This stance persisted even as the FBI, CIA, and Department of Energy deemed the lab-leak theory credible, suggesting it was more plausible than the natural-origin narrative promoted by Chinese officials.
“The Chinese relied upon western scientists to form a mob against anyone raising the lab-leak theory as a possible explanation,” Turley wrote. “Many were enlisted to sign letters or publish statements denouncing the idea. It became an article of faith — a required virtue signal among university scientists.”
The influence of media and academia also played a role in suppressing the lab-leak theory, according to Turley. After President Donald Trump endorsed the theory, media outlets and social media platforms denounced it as racist and unfounded, echoing Chinese positions from December 2019.
Figures like MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace mocked Trump for spreading “conspiracy theories,” while The New York Times discouraged journalists from discussing the “racist” theory. Social media platforms coordinated with the administration to censor and blacklist experts who advocated for further investigation.
Turley concluded that the delay in acknowledging the possibility of a lab origin may have allowed the virus to spread globally unchecked, with U.S. military personnel potentially carrying it home to 25 states after the Wuhan games. He contends that the failure to confront China — and the administration’s lack of transparency — likely caused millions of preventable deaths.
“Congress and the Trump administration are now working to reconstruct this record,” he wrote. “There is much that we still do not know. However, the public has already paid dearly for the answers.”
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