Lab Leak in China , Likely Set Off Pandemic, , Says US Energy Department.
The U.S. Energy Department's most recent assessment of the cause of the coronavirus pandemic is based on new intelligence.
It represents a shift from its earlier, undecided assessment of the origins of the pandemic.
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National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan emphasized that different agencies have reached conflicting conclusions.
There is a variety of views in the intelligence community, Jake Sullivan, National Security Adviser,
via 'The New York Times'.
Some elements of the intelligence community have reached conclusions on one side, some on the other.
, Jake Sullivan, National Security Adviser,
via 'The New York Times'.
A number of them have said they just donât have enough information to be sure, Jake Sullivan, National Security Adviser,
via 'The New York Times'.
But right now, there is not a definitive answer that has emerged from the intelligence community on this question, Jake Sullivan, National Security Adviser,
via 'The New York Times'.
Mike Gallagher, (R-WI), is a member of a House subcommittee investigating the pandemic's origins.
Evidence has been piling up for over a year in favor of the lab leak hypothesis, U.S. Rep.
Mike Gallagher, (R-WI),
via 'The New York Times'.
I am glad some of our agencies are starting to listen to
common sense and change
their assessment, U.S. Rep.
Mike Gallagher, (R-WI),
via 'The New York Times'.
Gallagher criticized the "Chinese Communist Party" for its willingness "to cover up" its knowledge of how the pandemic started.
[It is] an organization that was willing to cover up the origins of the pandemic and thereby cost us critical days, months and weeks and millions of lives in
the process, U.S. Rep.
Mike Gallagher, (R-WI),
via 'The New York Times'.
While support of the theory seems split along party lines, some academics say there is reason to question the origin.
The lab leak origin for the Covid-19 pandemic is not, and was not, a conspiracy theory, Anthony Ruggiero, Foundation for Defense of Democracies Scholar, via 'The New York Times'
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