Kansas Sen. Marshall says he thinks a COVID-19 coverup would rise to a level of criminality

Sen. Roger "Doc" Marshall, R-Kan., said Monday that if COVID-19 was genetically manufactured and escaped a Chinese lab, it would be criminal if the government knew that and covered it up.

"I would think the suppression of information that led to the death of a million Americans would rise to criminality," Marshall, a medical doctor, said on the "Just the News, No Noise" TV show. "But that's just an opinion."

An elite unit of scientists working for the Defense Intelligence Agency concluded three months after the pandemic began that COVID-19 was likely genetically manufactured and escaped a Chinese lab rather than evolving in nature as Dr. Anthony Fauci claimed, a bombshell revelation now at the heart of ongoing investigations into a possible U.S. intelligence cover-up.

“'SARS-CoV-2 Spike Appears to be a Chimera,' a slide from the DIA National Center for Medical Intelligence's June 25, 2020, presentation declared, using the scientific terms for the COVID-19 virus and the 'chimera' term for a genetically engineered pathogen that is a combination of pieces from two separate viruses," according to reporting from Just the News.

"I'm not a lawyer," Marshall said. "I'm not a prosecuting DA — that type of thing. But in my heart, all I know is a million Americans dead, 20 million people with long COVID, that the suppression of this information makes them somewhat liable for what happened there."

Marshall said it is important to follow the money for these kinds of incidents.

"I think it's the cover-up, right?" he said. "It's always the cover-up. We'll follow the money. We're going to follow the details. So I think with Kash Patel there in charge of the FBI, I'm actually hopeful. But really the inspector general there within the intelligence community, I think this rests upon his or her shoulders."