WASHINGTON, D.C. (FOX News) — The U.S. Energy Department has concluded that the Covid pandemic most likely arose from a laboratory leak, according to a classified intelligence report recently provided to the White House and key members of Congress, the WSJ reports.
The Energy Department joins the FBI in backing the lab-leak theory, which many in the mainstream media labeled as a debunked, fringe, and conspiracy theory.
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said on Sun, “right now, there is not a definitive answer that has emerged from the intelligence community on this question.”
President Biden said in 2021, “Critical information about the origins of this pandemic exists in the People’s Republic of China, yet from the beginning, gov officials in China have worked to prevent international investigators and members of the global public health community from accessing it.”
In May of 2021, White House press secretary Jen Psaki wouldn’t say whether the president has seen evidence that COVID-19 did not leak from a lab in the Chinese city of Wuhan when questioned by Peter Doocy, “I would caution you against disproving a negative there, which is never the responsible approach in our view.”
Republican Dan Sullivan said, “we need to have public hearings on this and really dig into it.”
