America needs a high-powered commission to probe the pandemic’s origins

President Joe Biden has ordered US intelligence agencies to do a 90-day investigation into the signs COVID-19 leaked from a Chinese lab. But the country (indeed, the world) needs more: a full, high-powered probe by the likes of the 9/11 Commission to determine the pandemic’s origins.

The intel community alone can’t do the job and will be far too prone to keeping secret things the public needs to know as well as to inter-agency negotiations that have nothing to do with getting to the truth. Indeed, The New Yorker’s reporting indicates that some forces inside the government don’t want key questions asked, lest they reveal that US taxpayers helped fund research that created the plague.