Posted on 02/27/2023 1:31:06 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
The White House on Monday downplayed and would not confirm a report that the Department of Energy determined a lab leak was the most likely cause of the COVID-19 pandemic, saying there is no government consensus yet about what caused the outbreak.
“The intelligence community and the rest of the government is still looking at this,” John Kirby, a White House national security spokesperson, said at a press briefing.
“There’s not been a definitive conclusion, so it’s difficult for me to say, nor should I feel like I should have to defend press reporting about a possible preliminary indication here,” he continued. “What the president wants is facts. He wants the whole government designed to go get those facts. And, that’s what we’re doing, and we’re just not there yet.”
Reports circulated Sunday that the Energy Department had concluded based on new intelligence that a lab leak in China was the most likely cause of the pandemic, a shift from the previous position that it was not clear how the COVID-19 virus began to spread. The Energy Department study reportedly offered the conclusion with “low confidence” and the intelligence information that changed it conclusion is unknown.
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Weasel words.
It seems odd to me that the department of energy would be the one doing such a study.
Those lying clowns?
No “scientific” consensus??!!
Nor will there be under Biden, because they fear China.
Kirby is a slick liar.
They know and we know they know
Amazing how the CDC et al could say it was not a leak after Trump said it was.
There never will be anything “definitive” unless the Chicoms admit it. That won’t be happening, obviously.
I am 100% positive that it was intentionally leaked. If you analyze the news at the exact time covid began to start before it was known there was very wide spread lamentation by all the news networks about how strong the economy was. It seemed unstoppable at the time, and all the pundits were wringing there hands about how it would take a literal economic implosion to take out Trump…and it would take a miracle for that to happen. One month later, as if by magic, the entire economy was shut down for the first time in world history.
Yeah, this is definitely weird. Civil war brewing within the federal government? Deep state vs some vestige of real Americans? Or the china compromised faction vs the neocon-let's-have-a-war faction?
White House: We’ll ignore the issue until it goes away
And now the “government” is claiming they need an internal consensus? What a pantload. Yeah and soon they’ll start mentioning anonymous experts or anonymous scientists.
Pfffft....
The scientific reasoning for this course of action can be explained by, “Orange Man Bad.”
Unreal. 1984 type stuff.
We all know where the disease came from. But I guess we can wait another couple of years for the dumb asses to catch up. I said to a coworker a few years ago that the China virus was from China ...just a blank stare back from her. Doesn’t fit her narrative.
They know since they were in on it.
I hear there’s a virology lab right where the virus broke out. In Wuhan. In China. Called the Wuhan Virology Institute. Could there be some kind of a connection or am I a conspiracy nut who should be banned from posting?
Who’s doing all this gabbing to the “media” for the White House? Hopefully it’s not the retarded “Doctor Jill”
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