FBI Director Christopher Wray is the latest administration official to admit what some were saying more than two years ago — and were being punished or silenced for it — that the COVID-19 “lab leak theory” is 100 percent true.
During an interview on Tuesday, Wray stated that the FBI has assessed that the COVID-19 pandemic originated from a laboratory in Wuhan, China, and there is classified information to support this assessment. His statement follows a recent assessment by the Department of Energy that also concluded that the pandemic resulted from a leak at a Chinese lab, as reported by The Wall Street Journal.
Asked about the assessment during a Monday interview with Fox News anchor Bret Baier, Wray said “the FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan.”
“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,” Wray continued. “The threats that those could pose.”
“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,” Wray added. “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.
“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,” he added.
The theory was initially based on many factors, including the 2019-2020 Wuhan Institute of Virology study of bat coronaviruses, the proximity of the Wuhan Institute of Virology to the markets where the first cases of COVID-19 were reported, and the lowered security protocols present in the lab.
Proponents of the theory believe that the virus was accidentally released from the lab, either through a lab worker, a contractor, or a bat, which then spread to humans. Supporters of the theory also argue that China’s initial attempts to cover up the pandemic, including silencing whistleblowers and suppressing information, further suggest that the virus was laboratory-made.
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FBI Director Christopher Wray says that COVID-19 likely originated in a lab in communist China
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) February 28, 2023
