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 Dr Birx had insisted she went to the property in Delaware to prepare it for a potential sale, though she acknowledged sharing a meal with her family during the visit. ((https://web.archive.org/web/20201222233823/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55419954))
+==== Lockdown Planning ====
+The Talented Mr. Pottinger: The US Intelligence Agent Who Pushed Lockdowns
+Brownstone By Michael Senger   July 20, 2022
+I barely knew who [[:Matt Pottinger]] was until I read that he’d appointed [[:Deborah Birx]] as White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator in her bizarrely self-incriminating memoir Silent Invasion. There’s little information about Pottinger’s role in Covid online.
+Yet Pottinger is portrayed as a leading protagonist in three different pro-lockdown books on America’s response to Covid-19: The Plague Year by the [[:New Yorker]]’s Lawrence Wright, Nightmare Scenario by the Washington Post’s [[:Yasmeen Abutaleb]], and Chaos Under Heaven by the [[:Washington Post]]’s Josh Rogin. Pottinger’s singularly outsized role in pushing for alarm, shutdowns, mandates, and science from China in the early months of Covid is extremely well-documented.
+Pottinger’s enormous influence during Covid is especially surprising not only because of his absence from online discussion about these events, but because of who he is.
+The son of leading Department of Justice official [[:Stanley Pottinger]], Matt Pottinger graduated with a degree in Chinese studies in 1998 before going to work as a journalist in China for seven years, where he reported on topics including the original [[:SARS]]. In 2005, Pottinger unexpectedly left journalism and obtained an age waiver to join the US Marine Corps.
+Over several tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, Pottinger became a decorated intelligence officer and met General Michael Flynn, who later appointed him to the [[:National Security Council]] (NSC). Pottinger was originally in line to be China Director, but Flynn gave him the more senior job of Asia Director.
+. Ratcheting Up Alarm via “Asymptomatic Spread”
+In January 2020, Pottinger unilaterally called meetings and ratcheted up alarm about the new coronavirus in the White House based on information from his own sources in China, despite having no official intelligence to back up his alarmism, breaching protocol on several occasions.
+In Washington, [[:Matt Pottinger]] was first made aware of the new coronavirus after China’s CDC Director called US CDC Director [[:Robert Redfield]] to report it on January 3, 2020. According to Pottinger, he grew increasingly alarmed due to the rumors he saw on Chinese social media ((https://brownstone.org/articles/the-talented-mr-pottinger-the-us-intelligence-agent-who-pushed-lockdowns/))