WASHINGTON - U.S. intelligence agencies were issuing ominous, classified warnings in January and February about the global danger posed by the coronavirus while President Donald Trump and lawmakers played down the threat and failed to take action that might have slowed the spread of the pathogen, according to U.S. officials familiar with spy agency reporting.
The intelligence reports didn't predict when the virus might land on U.S. shores or recommend particular steps that public health officials should take, issues outside the purview of the intelligence agencies. But they did track the spread of the virus in China, and later in other countries, and warned that Chinese officials appeared to be minimizing the severity of the outbreak.
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WNU Editor: The US intel community wants to look good, but I am not impressed. Many non-intel sources were raising concerns on what was happening in China in January. This blog's first post on what was happening in China was on January 20 .... Deadly Coronavirus From China Has Global Health Officials On Alert, and was then followed with daily posts for two weeks under the hash-tag Wuhan Coronavirus, that was then followed by the hash-tag Covid-19 when the official name was designated for this pandemic.
