This weekend, it was reported ENERGY believes with “low confidence” that the coronavirus started at the Wuhan lab. Biden administration officials refused to confirm the report, and the intelligence community wouldn't say if it is true.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence released that assessment in August 2021, stating that one U.S. intelligence agency, believed to be the FBI, assessed with “moderate confidence” that the virus most likely emerged from the Wuhan lab, while four U.S. spy agencies and the National Intelligence Council believe with “low confidence” that the virus most likely has a natural origin. All U.S. spy agencies agree COVID-19 originated in China.
The FBI also declined to comment other than directing the Washington Examiner to ODNI, and ODNI declined to comment. The White House National Security Council did not respond to a request for comment. White House National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby was asked about the Energy Department’s lab leak assessment on Monday, but he did not speak to it directly.
The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday that the Energy Department had shifted from being undecided to leaning toward the lab leak hypothesis and that this shift is now noted in a still-secret update to ODNI’s 2021 report. A Trump State Department fact sheet released in January 2021 contended Wuhan lab researchers had previously conducted experiments involving what the Wuhan lab had identified as the “closest sample” to SARS-CoV-2 and that the lab “has a published record of conducting ‘gain-of-function’ research to engineer chimeric viruses.
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