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Comment by Tom Cotton
U.S. Senator from Arkansas (Republican); member of the Senate Intelligence and Armed Services Committees
I’m pleased the CIA concluded in the final days of the Biden administration that the lab-leak theory is the most plausible explanation of Covid’s origins and I commend Director Ratcliffe for fulfilling his promise to release this conclusion.AI Verified (Jan 25, 2025)
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CBS News
1h ago
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Relevant: the quote explicitly says the "lab-leak theory" is the most plausible explanation of COVID’s origins, and the source page frames this as Cotton’s view that COVID likely originated in the Wuhan labs. That is directly on the complete statement and makes a stance substantially more likely. ([cotton.senate.gov](https://www.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-releases/chairman-cotton-statement-on-cia-findings-on-covid-origins?utm_source=openai))
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 1h ago
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He explicitly supports the statement: he praises the CIA for concluding that "the lab-leak theory" was "the most plausible explanation" for Covid’s origins, and the source context adds that he had said Covid "likely originated in the Wuhan labs." ([cotton.senate.gov](https://www.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-releases/chairman-cotton-statement-on-cia-findings-on-covid-origins))
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 59min ago
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The official Senate press-release page at the provided URL, dated January 25, 2025, says Senator Tom Cotton "released the following statement" and includes the quoted sentence verbatim within a longer statement, so the quote is authentic, correctly attributed, and the source URL contains it. Fox News also reproduced the same sentence from Cotton’s statement. ([cotton.senate.gov](https://www.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-releases/chairman-cotton-statement-on-cia-findings-on-covid-origins))
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 1h ago
replying to Tom Cotton