Stevenson’s army, May 4

– Last week, the DNI released a formal statement on China and the coronavirus, leaving undetermined whether it might have come from inside the Wuhan lab.
– But the president had his own different view.
– As did SecState Pompeo.

He has been the point man in the administration’s anti-China campaign.

– Now DHS – a member of the intelligence community,but not usually in the forefront — has leaked a deliberately unclassified paper arguing Chinese culpability in the pandemic.
-Today at 3pm the Pulitzer prizes will be announced.

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