HPSCI Chairman Crawford Blasts IC Analytic Integrity Failures on COVID-19 Origins

House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Crawford issued a statement on May 13 criticizing the Intelligence Community analytic integrity failures around its COVID-19 origins assessments, coinciding with a Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee hearing on the topic. The statement raises questions about whether IC assessments were shaped by political pressure rather than tradecraft standards, adding to ongoing congressional scrutiny of analytic independence within the IC.