WASHINGTON, May 13 -- Sen. Joni Ernst issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), a member of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, secured new confirmation from a CIA whistleblower that there is evidence government officials covered up COVID's true origins and made excuses for China's likely involvement.
After years of leading investigations into the origins of the COVID-19 virus, Ernst put a longtime CIA employee, with firsthand knowledge of the intelligence community's response to the pandemic, on the record about government suppression of origin theories and bureaucratic flaws that enabled the cover-up.
"I've long warned about a potential government cover-up of the truth, which ...