中新网北京8月26日电(蒋鲤)近日，美国媒体披露了一件不可思议的事情：在8月初美国发布的一份报告中，武汉病毒所的安保服务项目和中央空调系统项目的预算金额竟然达到了128万美元(约合830万人民币)和6.06亿美元(约合39.2亿人民币)！此份来自美国国会众议院外交事务委员会的报告里的数据，比公开的中文文件里的金额暴增了10倍乃至1000倍！！

　　作为具有百年历史的美国大报，《华尔街日报》和《华盛顿邮报》是这起怪异的“乌龙”事件的煽风点火者，难道仅仅是媒体报道没有核实数据的真实性？又或是美国媒体没有好好学过中文？这让人不由得不怀疑美方的这份报告和美国媒体肆意炒作，究竟是怎样的用心。

　　当然，试图抹黑中国，美国的阴招也不止这一个。就像为了使武汉病毒所成为怀疑对象，美国可谓煞费苦心。情报部门也将如期提交拜登下令的90天内完成的病毒溯源“调查报告”。这种反科学式的“情报溯源”做法在人类历史上也是绝无仅有。

　　首先，病毒溯源是严肃的科学问题，往往需要几年甚至十几年的时间才能查清，这是科学界的共识。一纸行政命令催生的调查报告首先就已经违背了科学客观规律，注定对新冠病毒全球溯源无益。当然，凭借在国际舆论场上的强势话语权，美国罔顾事实、强行输出，国际社会对其做法也司空见惯了。

　　其次，除了调查本身与科学背道而驰，主导调查的美国情报部门黑历史缠身，不具有公信力。多年来，美国情报部门一直是美式霸权背后的隐形黑手。美国策动的伊拉克战争，少不了情报部门罗织的罪名。它曾在20世纪40年代发起“知更鸟计划”，收买全球记者和机构搜集情报。让这样一个善于撒谎和欺骗的机构来主导病毒溯源，也是对科学的蔑视。

　　此外，已有多项证据表明，新冠病毒并非最早在武汉出现。根据美国农业部调查，2019年美国白尾鹿鹿血样本中有1例携带新冠病毒抗体。既然情报部门要调查病毒源头，为何不去调查白尾鹿是如何感染新冠的？美国新冠死亡病例居世界之首，情报部门为何不去调查？美国执意坚持“实验室泄漏论”，情报部门为何不去调查有病毒泄漏史的德特里克堡和研究冠状病毒的北卡罗来纳大学？

　　仅凭情报部门闭门造车三个月，美国将给出一份什么样的溯源报告我们还不可知，但捏造事实、制造冤案，一直是美国情报部门的拿手好戏。

Ignorant error or smear, the U.S. knows it

By John Lee

(ECNS) -- Due to the poor translation of a report released by the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs in August 2021, the budgets of the Security Service Procurement Project and the Central Air Conditioning Renovation Project of the Wuhan Institute of Virology were exaggerated to roughly 1.28 million and 606 million U.S. dollars respectively, about 10 and 1,000 times the actual numbers. Unexpectedly, the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post quoted these data without verification in order to frame the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Of course, this is not the first time that the U.S. has tried to frame China. For instance, the U.S. has done whatever it takes to make the Wuhan Institute of Virology doubtable. The Intelligence Community (IC) of the U.S. will submit the so-called COVID-19 origin tracing report as required by President Joe Biden in May 2021. Such an anti-scientific way of virus origin-tracing is very rare in human history.

Origin tracing is a serious scientific issue which may take several or a dozen years, which is a consensus of the scientific community. The IC's investigation report forced by an executive order has violated scientific laws, which is by no means useful for COVID-19 origin tracing. However, the international community is accustomed to the U.S. practices of ignoring facts and indoctrinating others, relying on its international power.

Meanwhile, the IC has lost public trust for its notorious record. It was a complicit in the war against Iraq. Its Operation Mockingbird in the 1940s recruited journalists to manipulate news media for propaganda purposes, etc. The investigation into the origin tracing conducted by such an organization has no doubt stained science.

What's more, evidence shows that Wuhan was not the first place invaded by the novel coronavirus. According to the U.S. Department of the Agriculture, coronavirus anti-bodies had been detected in white-tailed deer in the U.S. in 2019. So why doesn't the IC probe into the wild deer infected with Covid-19? Why doesn't the IC inquire into the highest death toll of COVID-19 cases in the U.S.? Why doesn’t the IC look into Fort Detrick with virus-leak records and the University of North Carolina studying coronavirus if the country really concurs with the “lab-leak” theory?

It's not clear what kind of origin tracing report the U.S. will release, but we do know that the Intelligence Community is good at fabricating and smearing.