It should be a morale builder at Foggy Bottom since it was reported that, once again, at a critical moment in our modern history, it was two foreign service officers who provided the most important early warning about a potential ominous national security disaster. Thanks to Josh Rogin of the Washington Post, we now know that two years ago, messages were sent to Washington by career foreign service officers based in China, showing serious deficiencies in procedures at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The laboratory, where research into a coronavirus that is carried by bats was being conducted, had collaborative relationships with several American universities and had also received funding from the federal government.
