Josh Christenson writes for the New York Post about one target of Republican senators’ anger.

Republican senators slammed US spy chiefs on Friday for operating “in the shadows” to cover up bombshell evidence of COVID-19 leaking out of a Chinese lab — and renewed calls for a thorough independent investigation of alleged meddling by political appointees into the pandemic’s origins.

“For years, we’ve exposed the federal government’s role — especially the Intelligence Community — in concealing the origins of COVID-19, with the Biden administration complicit every step of the way,” Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) told The Post.

“For this reason, I recently wrote to the Intelligence Community’s Office of Inspector General, giving these authorities records and additional critical support to launch an investigation into potential integrity breaches in the intelligence community COVID origins assessment process,” he said.

“The US Intelligence Community operates in the shadows, but I will keep demanding sunlight, pushing for transparency and accountability, and fighting for answers for every American lost in this devastating pandemic,” Marshall added.

In the first year of the pandemic, Defense Department and FBI scientists uncovered evidence that the virus causing COVID-19 had likely been engineered and later erupted in Wuhan, China, after a lab accident.

However, Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines never presented their findings to President Biden, sources familiar with the compiling of the agency’s August 2021 report told The Post on Thursday.

That evidence included a 2008 scientific study from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) showing Chinese researchers — like the infamous “bat lady” Dr. Shi Zhengli — had optimized viruses for easier transmission to humans and trained up on their techniques while collaborating with a US lab in Texas years before the pandemic.

It also comprised a highly detailed genomic analysis of SARS-CoV-2 as well as proof that the WIV scientists learned how to stitch new viruses together seamlessly, making it difficult to see whether the resulting virus is manufactured or not.