In yet another confirmation that the U.S. government on the whole has concluded that the coronavirus came out of a lab in China, FBI director Christopher Wray declared Tuesday that the FBI still stands by that assessment.
In an interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier, Wray stated “the FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan.”
Wray explained, “The FBI has folks, agents, professionals, analysts, virologists, microbiologists, etc., who focus specifically on the dangers of biological threats, which include things like novel viruses, like COVID, and the concerns that in the wrong hands, some bad guys, a hostile nation-state, a terrorist, a criminal. the threats that those could pose.”
The FBI head continued, “So here you’re talking about a potential leak from a Chinese government-controlled lab that killed millions of Americans. And that’s precisely what that capability was designed for.”
“I should add that our work related to this continues, and there are not a whole lot of details I can share that aren’t classified,” Wray further stated, adding “I will just make the observation that the Chinese government, it seems to me, has been doing its best to try to thwart and obfuscate the work here.”
“The work that we’re doing, the work that our U.S. government and close foreign partners are doing. And that’s unfortunate for everybody,” Wray asserted.
WATCH:
It has been known since 2021 that the FBI had assessed the pandemic origin and concluded with “moderate confidence” that the lab-leak theory was most likely.
There has been renewed focus on the origin of the pandemic after the Energy Department (DOE) released a report asserting that a lab leak was responsible for the start of the pandemic.
The revelation has prompted Republicans to call for declassification of the intelligence.
Senator Rand Paul previously noted that over classification is being used to cover up the the lab leak.
As we highlight in the video below, the “accidental” lab leak theory was once scorned as a dangerous conspiracy theory by the MSM and Big Tech, with prominent media platforms and individuals ridiculed and banned for circulating it.
How times have changed.
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