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FBI Director Chris Wray appeared on Fox News’ Special Report today to discuss the lab leak theory and the recent DOE report which concluded (with low confidence) that the lab leak was the most likely explanation.
Asked what the FBI believed, Wray replied, “The FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan.” He added, “You’re talking about a potential leak from a Chinese government controlled lab that killed millions of Americans.”
Wray also pointed out that the investigation was ongoing and that most of the details remained classified. “The Chinese government, it seems to me, has been doing its best to try to thwart and obfuscate the work here,” he said in reference to the investigation. Here’s the clip.
Watch; FBI Director Chris Wray tells Fox’s @BretBaier that “Origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan.. the Chinese government it seems to me has been doing its best to thwart and obfuscate the work we’re doing.” pic.twitter.com/KjwvlFpYnS
TV News Now (@TVNewsNow) February 28, 2023
NBC News has already done a full story on this interview. They note, correctly, that the intel agencies remain split on this:
A report commissioned by President Joe Biden on the origins of Covid, released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in August 2021, showed that one U.S. intelligence agency had assessed with moderate confidence that the virus infected humans after a lab-associated incident; four other agencies assessed with low confidence that the virus emerged naturally.
