U.S. intelligence reports from January and February warned about a likely pandemic
Source: WaPo
By Shane Harris, Greg Miller, Josh Dawsey and Ellen Nakashima
March 20, 2020 at 8:10 p.m. EDT
U.S. intelligence agencies were issuing ominous, classified warnings in January and February about the global danger posed by the coronavirus while President 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.
Taken together, the reports and warnings painted an early picture of a virus that showed the characteristics of a globe-encircling pandemic that could require governments to take swift actions to contain it. But despite that constant flow of reporting, Trump continued publicly and privately to play down the threat the virus posed to Americans. Lawmakers, too, did not grapple with the virus in earnest until this month, as officials scrambled to keep citizens in their homes and hospitals braced for a surge in patients suffering from covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.
Intelligence agencies “have been warning on this since January,” said a U.S. official who had access to intelligence reporting that was disseminated to members of Congress and their staffs as well as to officials in the Trump administration, and who, along with others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe sensitive information.
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They fucking knew!
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We're back in DU2! Where's matcom? 
The same old rePutican fallback line, when they're caught flatfooted and Americans die.
No different than 9 -11 ... imho..
Too much has been written about warnings from our "allies " weeks leading up to the attacks..No doubt closing the airports and warning the public was weighed..much like warnings about the coronavirus..against finance losses..
