Washington Post: My, that declassified report on COVID-19’s origins is ‘sparse’

I’m glad that the Washington Post editorial board has not forgotten about the questions about the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, and declared that “the need for a full and credible investigation into how the pandemic began — and how to prevent the next one — has never been greater.” After noting that the declassified version of the intelligence community’s report was “sparse,” the editors wrote:

President Biden noted last week that China continues to withhold information. “The world deserves answers, and I will not rest until we get them,” he pledged. But how? Ultimately, China holds the key. However, Mr. Biden should offer to support and facilitate the work toward a full-fledged pandemic investigatory commission being undertaken by the privately funded Covid Commission Planning Group under Philip Zelikow, who was executive director of the highly regarded 9/11 Commission. Such a panel would be uniquely capable of looking both back at what happened and forward to what might.

But it is abundantly clear that the Chinese government has no intention of ever cooperating with an independent international or outside investigation. If Philip Zelikow wants to emulate the 9/11 Commission, fine, but it’s fair to wonder just what that commission will be able to find that the U.S. intelligence community could not.