The agency said it has “low confidence” in its judgment and that it would continue evaluating new intelligence reporting.
The move is meant to please Trump voters, punish perceived enemies and represents “the most politically saturated security action since the Oppenheimer case in the 1950s.”
Former President John F. Kennedy's grandson is upset with President Donald Trump's order to declassify files relating to his grandfather and great-uncle's assassinations.
Trump issued a flurry of executive orders and proclamations during his first few days back in the White House.
Republicans kept the Senate working Saturday to install the latest member of Trump’s national security team on a 59-34 vote.
The Senate voted to confirm John Ratcliffe as the next CIA director approving the second high-level appointment for the Trump administration.
In one of his first acts as Donald Trump’s CIA director, John Ratcliffe had the agency publish an assessment backing the once relatively fringe theory that the COVID-19 pandemic began with an accidental leak at a research lab in the Chinese city of Wuhan.
The former Texas lawmaker and prosecutor was Trump's national intelligence director in his first term. He vowed to reject White House political pressure
The finding is not the result of any new intelligence. It was declassified and released Saturday on the orders of President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the CIA.
The Central Intelligence Agency has shifted its official stance on the origin of Covid-19, saying Saturday that the virus was "more likely" leaked from a Chinese lab than transmitted by animals.