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Lab Leak Most Likely Origin of Covid-19 Pandemic, Energy Department Now Says
WSJ ^ | Michael Gordon, Warren Strobel

Posted on 02/26/2023 6:37:50 AM PST by jdsteel

WASHINGTON—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 shift by the Energy Department, which previously was undecided on how the virus emerged, is noted in an update to a 2021 document by Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines’s office.

The new report highlights how different parts of the intelligence community have arrived at disparate judgments about the pandemic’s origin. The Energy Department now joins the Federal Bureau of Investigation in saying the virus likely spread via a mishap at a Chinese laboratory. Four other agencies, along with a national intelligence panel, still judge that it was likely the result of a natural transmission, and two are undecided.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: covid; wuhan
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Next they’ll be telling us the vax isn’t 100% safe and effective!!!

1 posted on 02/26/2023 6:37:50 AM PST by jdsteel
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To: jdsteel

Enough time has past? The Behavioral modification experiment was a success and millions dead? Mission Accomplished?


2 posted on 02/26/2023 6:40:31 AM PST by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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To: jdsteel

Deliberate or accidental leak?


3 posted on 02/26/2023 6:45:15 AM PST by null and void (TIA - NW)
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To: Karliner

Cuomo sure did his part in killing the Senior Population...and it certainly wasn’t accidental.


4 posted on 02/26/2023 6:46:13 AM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: jdsteel

Take that, Fauci. However, given the results of the pandemic - the ability of Biden to defeat Trump, and all that that entails, which benefits the Chicoms, I’m not convinced the leak was an accident.


5 posted on 02/26/2023 6:46:31 AM PST by Daveinyork
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To: jdsteel

The Department of Energy? Okay. Where do the Department of Education and transportation stand?!? Lol.


6 posted on 02/26/2023 6:58:28 AM PST by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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To: null and void

EVERYTHING connected to FAUCI & GATES is definitely DELIBERATE


7 posted on 02/26/2023 6:59:00 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: jdsteel

Guess they’ll be banned from Youtube, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Tiktok for spreading dangerous misinformation.

Oh wait, never mind, that was back when the “truth” was different.

Like today the sun comes up in the East.

And only men humans have penises. (Oops that’s wrong now, I’m so SOOOO sorry!)

Some truths are subject to change over time, I suppose.


8 posted on 02/26/2023 7:05:37 AM PST by John Milner (Marching for Peace is like breathing for food.)
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To: jdsteel

This is all well and good - but why is the Department of Energy investigating the origin of COVID?


9 posted on 02/26/2023 7:06:04 AM PST by TexasKamaAina (The time is out of joint. - Hamlet)
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To: jdsteel

We knew that in about two days after it all started. The Chinese citizens identified the source and how it happened pretty much right away. It seem we have an information-starved investigating team.


10 posted on 02/26/2023 7:22:13 AM PST by GingisK
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To: Daveinyork
I’m not convinced the leak was an accident.

I think the leak was deliberate, but I don't think it was done with the approval of the Chinese government.

I think a senior official at the lab was having an affair with one of the lab workers, and when he dumped her, well, Hell hath no fury...

This version of COVID was NOT the final weaponized version, that is why I don't think it was a government sponsored release. Xi, et al. would have waited until a version with a longer contagious incubation period and a sky-high ultimate fatality rate and they had enough vaccines - real vaccines - for at least the Han population of China.

I think the Wuhan lab is still working on that version.

Prove me wrong...

11 posted on 02/26/2023 7:23:11 AM PST by null and void (TIA - NW)
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To: Sacajaweau

When I think of Cuomo and some others I think of Stalin’s quote regarding one death a tragedy and a million being a statistic.


12 posted on 02/26/2023 7:24:11 AM PST by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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To: jdsteel
is this a clue that the DOE admits that it was involved, itself.
Perhaps the "leak" was another DOE steal at an airport??

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13 posted on 02/26/2023 7:24:34 AM PST by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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Some are so ideologically wed to the leftist agenda that the first words out of their mouth when it was noted that the first case of Covid occurred just 4 miles from the bio-lab, confidently pronounced, "That theory's been debunked!".

Nevermind that it was impossible to have "debunked" any theory at that point in time.

14 posted on 02/26/2023 7:26:46 AM PST by G Larry ( "woke" means 'stupid enough to fall for the promotion of every human weakness into a virtue')
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To: John Milner
Like today the sun comes up in the East.

China must be convinced the Sun is rising in the East...

15 posted on 02/26/2023 7:32:05 AM PST by null and void (TIA - NW)
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To: jdsteel

WSJ. Eeey. Hello! 3 years ago we knew this. 3.


16 posted on 02/26/2023 7:32:41 AM PST by stanne
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To: null and void

I can’t prove you wrong, and you can’t prove me wrong, but perhaps the chicoms have learned that they cannot control where a virus may go, which makes it an ineffective weapon. It may kill their own people, including their warriors.


17 posted on 02/26/2023 7:41:37 AM PST by Daveinyork
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To: Diogenesis

Someone pass the eye bleach please.


18 posted on 02/26/2023 7:45:04 AM PST by Trueblackman (I would rather stick my head up my a** & walk down an Interstate off ramp than believe Biden.)
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To: Trueblackman
Save some for me…


19 posted on 02/26/2023 7:50:21 AM PST by GreenLanternCorps (Hi! I'm the Dread Pirate Roberts! (TM) Ask about franchise opportunities in your area.)
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To: Daveinyork

Yeah. We’ll never know this side of the veil.

That wasn’t intended as a personal challenge to you, but as a general plea to anyone, anyone, to prove me wrong.


20 posted on 02/26/2023 7:53:48 AM PST by null and void (TIA - NW)
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