FBI Director Also Thinks Covid Escaped from Communist Chinese Lab in Wuhan By Brian Simpson

The Covid-19 origins issue is getting mainstream media coverage; not a lot, but at least in the US, but not Australia. Thus, it has been reported that FBI director Christopher A. Wray, believes that from evidence the FBI has, the Covid-19 virus originated from a lab accident in Wuhan Institute of Virology in communist China. "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 said in an interview with Fox News. "The Chinese government, seems to me, has been doing its best to try and thwart and obfuscate the work here, the work that we're doing, and that's unfortunate for everybody." This was what was said back in 2020-2021 by Trump and by other Covid Critics, which was at the time dismissed by the mainstream media as being as conspiracy theory.

However, we are finding in the present political climate, that a conspiracy today, is solid truth tomorrow. As Eric Butler often said, the only alternative to the conspiracy view of history is the idiot view, that events just randomly happen with no discernible pattern. And, that is just not so.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/02/28/fbi-director-christopher-wray-wuhan-lab/

"FBI director Christopher A. Wray said Tuesday that covid-19 "most likely" originated from a lab incident in Wuhan, China, his first public comments on the agency's position on the origins of the coronavirus. They come as Republican leaders have reignited probes into the possible source of the pandemic, with GOP House leaders holding a roundtable Tuesday to review the government's response and scheduling a hearing for next week to delve into the virus's origins.

"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 said Tuesday in an interview with Fox News. "The Chinese government, seems to me, has been doing its best to try and thwart and obfuscate the work here, the work that we're doing, and that's unfortunate for everybody."

'Lab leak' report energizes Republicans' covid probes

Wray's statement follows a Department of Energy analysis for a new government-wide intelligence assessment, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, that a lab accident in Wuhan was most likely responsible for the deadly pandemic.

Energy Department officials, who said they had "low confidence" in the new conclusion after changing their previous stance, maintain that there is still no definite conclusion on the virus's origins, and that the virus wasn't developed as a bioweapon. Among the nine entities investigating the pandemic's origin, most still favor the theory that the virus naturally spread from animals to humans, with, as The Post reported, only the FBI concluding that the cause of the pandemic was a lab accident, a view that the agency held with "moderate" confidence.

But the Energy Department's report galvanized congressional Republicans, many of whom have vowed to install greater oversight on the issue and argued that Chinese officials may have covered up the incident.

Tuesday's roundtable kicked off a lengthy series of meetings and hearings led by House Republicans, aiming to probe the virus's origins and decisions by U.S. leaders, with another hearing next week.

"At the end of this process, our goal is to produce a product, hopefully bipartisan, based on knowledge and lessons learned," said Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio), the panel's chair.

What we know about the origin of covid-19, and what remains a mystery

The panel invited three professors — Stanford's Jay Bhattacharya, Harvard's Martin Kulldorff and Johns Hopkins' Marty Makary — who joined the GOP in largely criticizing the government's actions, such as the Biden administration's vaccine mandate.

Several lawmakers and witnesses also broached the topic of the lab-leak theory, suggesting that it had been wrongly dismissed as a conspiracy.

"It's a no-brainer that it came from the lab," Makary said, suggesting that Chinese leaders and other scientists had been involved in a coverup.

Democrats during the roundtable said that "mistakes" transcended political parties.

Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) reflected on his struggles as mayor of Long Beach, Calif., in 2020 "trying to get tests, trying to get support from the Trump administration."