ABC News: Trump has ignored an intelligence report warning of the Corona crisis since last November

ABC News quoted on its website four sources familiar with classified reports that US intelligence officials warned in late November of an infection spreading in the Chinese region of Wuhan, changing lifestyles and businesses and posing a threat to the population. .

The site said - in a joint report between Josh Margolin and James Gordon Mick - that fears of what is now known as the Corona pandemic (Corona virus emerging Covid-19) were presented in detail in an intelligence report in November 2019 by the National Center for Medical Intelligence of the army, According to officials familiar with the contents of the document.

The report came as a result of analyzing wire and computer interceptions supported by satellite images, and the alarm has sounded, because any out of control disease may pose a serious threat to the American forces in Asia, whose information depends on the National Center for Medical Intelligence.

This means - according to the site - that the US government could have intensified its efforts early to alleviate and contain a crisis that was indications that it would come to the US House.

And one of the sources quoted the center's report that "the analysts concluded that it might be a disaster", which was reported several times to the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the White House.

Beginning with this warning last November, the sources spoke of repeated briefings last December for policymakers and decision-makers across the federal government, as well as the National Security Council at the White House.

The sources said that all this culminated in a detailed explanation of the problem, which appeared in the daily intelligence summary presented to the president in early January, which means that the issue has gone through weeks of scrutiny and analysis, according to some who worked on preparing the presidential summary from the Republican and Democratic administrations.

One of the sources said that the initial reports from Wuhan might be precedent to what he had seen, adding that "the matter has been confirmed as reported from the end of November as an issue that the army needs to take a position on."

The website pointed out that the center’s report was widely available to people who are authorized to view the intelligence warnings, and after that, other brochures were circulated among the secret channels through the government around the time of Thanksgiving.

According to Mick Mulroy, the former deputy assistant secretary of defense, who now works for ABC News, the matter “could have been a great warning, and all the intelligence-gathering agencies could have followed up.”

Mulroy, who was previously a senior CIA official, said the National Center for Medical Intelligence was doing a serious job that senior government leaders would not ignore.

He added that "medical intelligence took into account all sources of information, such as images, human intelligence and intelligence signals," and interrupted them "by analyzes from people who know the region, and that was reviewed by experts in this field, and everyone agreed on what this information means from the possibility of a global health crisis." .

The network site indicated that this center is one of the components of the Defense Intelligence Agency of the Pentagon, and its responsibilities with other agencies are to ensure that the US armed forces obtain the information they need to carry out their offensive and defensive tasks, knowing that one of the critical priorities for the Pentagon is to maintain The health of its deployed troops.

In response to a question regarding the warning of the warning in November, as part of a program on "ABC", Defense Minister Mark Esber told the broadcaster, "I don't remember, but we have a lot of people watching this closely ... We have the first research institute About infectious diseases in America, so our employees who work on these issues keep an eye on it directly all the time. "

The minister also said that he was not aware that there was a briefing on the matter submitted to the National Security Council last December. Meanwhile, the Pentagon, the White House National Security Council and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence declined to comment on the matter.

The site says that critics of President Donald Trump's administration blamed him for inaction and delay in facing the Corona pandemic, after its invasion of Wuhan and parts of Europe, until it killed more than 12 thousand people in the United States.

Although Trump boasted several times about his decision on January 31 to restrict air travel to China and from there to his country, he - according to the site - spent weeks informing the public and senior administration officials that there was nothing the Americans feared, and even said in an interview, "No worries." Absolutely, and we control it completely ... It will be okay. "

And late last February, Trump was still making positive comments on the way Chinese leaders had dealt with Corona, and he said in an interview with Channel 10, "I am sure they are trying hard ... they are working ... they have built Hospital in seven days, and they are now building another hospital ... I think it will work well. "

Trump did not act until March 13, when he declared a national emergency and mobilized tremendous resources for the federal government to help public health agencies deal with the crisis the country was about to collapse under its influence.