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While they indeed wrote "last year", this is purely semantic because democrats indeed started to say lab origin was unlikely at that time. The new information is by definition new. Sure they could have said that, up until last week they still thought so, but it's implicated. The article says that virologists still think that it is natural. The very job of intelligence agencies is to control information. Sometimes they say stuff that makes them look incompetent, like the WMD in Iraq or that the Taliban wouldn't take Kabul this soon. While their service protects "our" interests in the end, they are no reliable source for anything. Scientists at least have some incentive to state the truth. But I have to agree that news outlets like CNN are politicizing information, but an educated reader can still extract what is important. The alternative is no alternative.