FBI director says COVID leaked from Wuhan lab after ‘most likely a potential lab incident’
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FBI director confirms it is “highly likely” that COVID leaked from the Wuhan lab, claims China is “frustrating and obfuscating” US investigations, days after the Department of Energy revealed a shocking report about the origin of the virus.
- FBI Director Christopher Wray has commented for the first time that the FBI has concluded that COVID originated in a laboratory in Wuhan, China.
- Wray said the virus was likely the result of a laboratory leak and that the Chinese government has worked to undermine the work of his agency.
- The FBI report concludes the same as the latest Department of Energy investigation into the virus, but the White House cannot reach a consensus.
FBI Director Christopher Wray confirmed the agency’s conclusion that the COVID pandemic was likely the result of a laboratory leak in Wuhan, China.
Commenting for the first time Tuesday on the FBI’s trial, Wray reiterated his agency’s initial findings from 2021, adding that the Chinese government has allegedly worked to undermine the damning results.
“The FBI has assessed for quite some time that the origins of the pandemic are likely to be a possible laboratory incident in Wuhan,” Wray told Fox News. “Here he is talking about a possible leak from a laboratory controlled by the Chinese government.”
Wray’s comments come as the White House continues to struggle to reach a “consensus” on how the virus originated despite an Energy Department investigation reaching the same conclusion as the FBI.
FBI Director Christopher Wray has commented for the first time that the FBI has concluded that COVID originated in a laboratory in Wuhan, China.
Wray said the virus was likely the result of a laboratory leak and that the Chinese government has worked to undermine the work of his agency.
The FBI first came to the conclusion in 2021, saying it had “moderate confidence” that the pandemic that gripped the world was the result of an accidental leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Wray said the work was done by top experts from the FBI and the US government who specialize in monitoring potential outbreaks.
Despite the FBI’s conclusion, Wray added that Beijing has continuously tried to undermine the work of the US government.
“I’ll just make the point that the Chinese government, it seems to me, has been doing everything they can to try to thwart and obfuscate the work here, the work that we’re doing, the work that our US government and close foreign partners are doing. they’re doing, and that’s unfortunate for everyone,” he told Fox.
This is a developing story.