主题：美国官方的造谣行为该怎么定性 -- 河边看柳

“I can tell you that there is a significant amount of evidence that this came from that laboratory in Wuhan,” Pompeo told ABC’s Martha Radditz.

There is no credible evidence to date that is true.

Radditz responded, asking Pompeo, “Do you believe it was man-made or genetically modified?”

“Look, the best experts so far seem to think it was man-made, I have no reason to disbelieve that at this point,” Pompeo replied.

Stunned, Radditz tried to challenge Pompeo.

“Your Office of the DNI says the consensus, the scientific consensus was ‘not man-made or genetically modified.’”

Pompeo doesn’t flinch, doesn’t say he misspoke, but he does gaslight: “That’s right. I agree with that. I’ve seen their analysis, I’ve seen the summary that you saw that was released publicly, I have no reason to doubt that that is accurate.”

Radditz, still grappling with Pompeo saying two entirely different things at the same time, pushes further, while giving him the benefit of the doubt, says: “Oh, OK, so just to be clear you do not think it was man-made or genetically modified?”

Pompeo does not say, “Correct,” or, “No, it was not man-made or genetically modified.”

Instead, Pompeo offers up this statement: “I’ve seen what the Intelligence Community has said, I have no reason to believe that they’ve got it wrong.”

News outlets, like Bloomberg, decided to report that “Pompeo stopped short of saying the virus was man-made.”

And yet, he began by saying, “the best experts so far seem to think it was man-made.”

But as Radditz noted, the U.S. government’s Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) issued a statement saying: “The Intelligence Community also concurs with the wide scientific consensus that the COVID-19 virus was not manmade or genetically modified,” and added it “will continue to rigorously examine emerging information and intelligence to determine whether the outbreak began through contact with infected animals or if it was the result of an accident at a laboratory in Wuhan.”

So there is no official Intelligence Community finding that the coronavirus “came from that laboratory in Wuhan,” or is “man-made,” and yet Pompeo claims he is citing “experts” saying it was man-made.

Pompeo告诉美国广播公司（ABC）的玛莎·拉迪兹（Martha Radditz）：“我可以告诉你，有大量证据表明这（冠状病毒）是来自武汉的那个实验室。”

（实际上）迄今为止，没有可靠的证据证实这一点。

Radditz问Pompeo：“您认为它是人造的还是转基因的？”

庞培说：“看起来，到目前为止，我们最好的专家似乎认为这是人造的，我没有理由不相信这一点。”

拉迪兹大吃一惊，疑问地说：

“您的国家情报总监表示，科学共识是'它不是人造的或转基因的'。”

Pompeo并不退缩，也不说他说错了，反而说到：“是的。我同意这一点（国家情报总监的言论）。我看过他们的分析，看过您公开发布的摘要，我没有理由怀疑这是正确的。”

Radditz发现Pompeo同时给出了两种完全相反的结论，他说：“哦，好吧，所以明确的说，您不认为它是人造或转基因的？”

Pompeo既没有回答“正确”，也没有说“不，它不是人造的或转基因的。”Pompeo说：“我已经看到了情报界所说的话，我没有理由相信他们错了。”