The Energy Department concluded with "low confidence" that Covid "likely" originated from a laboratory leak in Wuhan, China, according to a classified report, two sources with direct knowledge told @NBCNews. https://t.co/IhnaNJAU3r
— NBC News (@NBCNews) February 26, 2023
Because all science is politics now, the GOP’s ‘investigative committee’ demanded a report they could use as a weapon against their enemies (Dr. Fauci, President Biden, actual scientists), and Rupert Murdoch’s Waahll Street Journal was more than happy to scare-monger the results:
The Energy Department concluded with “low confidence” that the Covid-19 pandemic “likely” originated from a laboratory leak in Wuhan, China, according to a classified report delivered to key lawmakers on the House and Senate Intelligence Committees, two sources with direct knowledge told NBC News.
Key lawmakers on the intelligence committees were briefed last month by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence about the classified report, the sources said.
The news was first reported by The Wall Street Journal on Sunday.
However, one source cautioned to NBC News that the DOE’s conclusion was not being viewed as hugely significant among the intelligence community due to interagency disagreements about Covid’s origins.
The classified report maintains the consensus that Covid-19 was not the result of a Chinese bioweapon, according to a U.S. official. In its assessment, the DOE also described the “likely” laboratory-related leak as an “accident,” the official added…
It could have been a lab leak — the theory is not outside the realm of possibility! Just as there could have been a second gunman on the grassy knoll in 1963! But the odds, from what we know now, are that a spillover infection from the Wuhan area wet markets led the Chinese government into hasty cover-up efforts that have compromised later efforts to track the evolution of the pandemic… just as hasty cover-up efforts by the various American alphabet agencies in 1963 fouled efforts to establish the details behind the assassination of President Kennedy. Any sufficiently terrible event is going to involve various governmental agencies reacting clumsily, because that’s how human politics works. But the Repubs have a new bone to gnaw:
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