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April 2020 Intelligence News

• Intelligence Community Statement on Origins of COVID-19, ODNI news release, April 30. "The entire Intelligence Community has been consistently providing critical support to U.S. policymakers and those responding to the COVID-19 virus, which originated in China. The Intelligence Community also concurs with the wide scientific consensus that the COVID-19 virus was not manmade or genetically modified."
• Trump Takes His War on Intelligence to a New Level by Melvin Goodman, Counterpunch, April 29. "Behind the national preoccupation with the pandemic, Trump has escalated his war on U.S. governance and our democracy with his politicization of the intelligence community."
• Judge tosses Twitter suit over surveillance secrecy by Josh Gerstein, Politico, April 18. "One expert on classified information policy said the judge's comments were startling because they question the bedrock of the U.S. national security classification system."
• IC Guiding Principles for the IC Acquisition & Procurement Community on Implementation of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, ODNI memo, April 9. "This memorandum provides you with documentation on the guiding principles we are using to address procurement issues during pandemic mitigation."