Lab leak most likely caused pandemic, Energy Department says, as spy agencies remain split

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New intelligence has prompted the Energy Department to conclude that an accidental laboratory leak in China most likely caused the coronavirus pandemic, although U.S. spy agencies remain divided ov…

WASHINGTON — New intelligence has prompted the Energy Department to conclude that an accidental laboratory leak in China most likely caused the coronavirus pandemic, although U.S. spy agencies remain divided over the origins of the virus, U.S. officials said Sunday.

Officials would not disclose what the intelligence was. But many of the Energy Department’s insights come from the network of national laboratories it oversees, rather than more traditional forms of intelligence like spy networks or communications intercepts. Jake Sullivan, the national security adviser, declined to confirm the intelligence. But he said President Joe Biden had ordered that the national labs be brought into the effort to determine the origin of the outbreak so that the government was using “every tool” it had.

Leaders of the intelligence community are set to brief Congress on March 8 and 9 as part of annual hearings on global threats. Avril D. Haines, the director of national intelligence, and other senior officials would most likely be asked about the continuing inquiry into the virus’s origins. Some scientists believe that the current evidence, including virus genes, points to a large food and live animal market in Wuhan as the most likely place the coronavirus emerged.

 

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nytimes But the people who had a financial and legal interest in gain of function research told us the lab leak was a “debunked conspiracy theory” starting in April 2020. The DP ran with that narrative. You lying to us then or lying to us now?

nytimes it's also been proven that MASKS DIDN'T WORK.

nytimes Just think, 3 years ago you would have been banned from the leftist media and called a conspiracy theorist for saying such a thing

nytimes They didn’t really say that.

nytimes Oh really? You’re three years late.

nytimes Are you going to drop Dilbert? Please?

nytimes They literally said low confidence.

nytimes Who is editing the headlines over there. This is not what it says in the article. So misleading.

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