Posted on 02/26/2023 9:45:46 AM PST by SeekAndFind
As the drip, drip, drip of revelations about the COVID-19 pandemic continues some three years after its appearance in the United States saw the first lockdowns and restrictions instituted, a federal agency has changed its conclusion about the virus' origin.
According to an exclusive report in The Wall Street Journal published Sunday, the United States Department of Energy has concluded that COVID "most likely arose from a laboratory leak," an updated position for the Energy Department that was reportedly revealed in "a classified intelligence report recently provided to the White House and key members of Congress." Previously, the Department of Energy was officially "undecided" on the emergence of COVID-19.
Overall, the United States federal government remains at odds over the pandemic's origins, with the Energy Department and FBI both now concluding a lab leak was most likely to blame, while four other federal entities believe it was the result of a "natural transmission," and two remain "undecided," according to WSJ:
The Energy Department’s conclusion is the result of new intelligence and is significant because the agency has considerable scientific expertise and oversees a network of U.S. national laboratories, some of which conduct advanced biological research.
The Energy Department made its judgment with “low confidence,” according to people who have read the classified report.
The FBI previously came to the conclusion that the pandemic was likely the result of a lab leak in 2021 with “moderate confidence” and still holds to this view.
The FBI employs a cadre of microbiologists, immunologists and other scientists and is supported by the National Bioforensic Analysis Center, which was established at Fort Detrick, Md., in 2004 to analyze anthrax and other possible biological threats.
Officials who spoke to WSJ "declined to give details on the fresh intelligence and analysis that led the Energy Department to change its position" but said the Department of Energy and FBI made their conclusions "for different reasons." An official did confirm "that the intelligence community had conducted the update...in light of new intelligence, further study of academic literature and consultation with experts outside government."
That type of research and intelligence gathering has become the United States' only hope of learning more about how COVID-19 became a global pandemic after the Chinese Communist Party closed ranks, restricted (and in some cases apparently "disappeared") its scientists from speaking to the outside world, and banned international and United Nations scientists from investigating the virus' origins at the apparent source.
As Townhall reported earlier in February, the World Health Organization unceremoniously abandoned its probe of COVID's origins, blaming the CCP for being secretive and unwilling to cooperate with researcher requests.
Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives are planning an investigation of their own into the origins of COVID-19 with their majority power and committee chairmanships, specifically Rep. James Comer (R-KY) and the House Oversight Committee.
"Discovering the origin is vital to providing accountability and protecting Americans in the future," the Oversight Committee's "COVID origins" landing page says. "Mounting evidence points to the virus originating from a leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV)," it adds, reflecting what the Department of Energy has concluded. But Oversight Republicans also plan to probe how "EcoHealth Alliance, a U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) grantee, awarded taxpayer funds to the WIV to conduct gain of function research on bat coronaviruses – research that may have started the pandemic."
The Oversight Committee has also come into possession of emails warning Dr. Fauci that a lab leak of a genetically engineered virus could explain COVID's origin, and even pointed to the Wuhan Institute of Virology as a potential culprit. Oversight Republicans say those emails show Fauci and former National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins potentially colluding with scientists "to downplay the lab leak theory for their preferred narrative of natural origin."
Not clear why DOE has any reason to fund such a conclusion.
Whose energy research budget paid for this? There are some guys who need firing.
This should come from CDC, or maybe State, or okay even FBI. Not DOE.
I guess it depends on how woke you are if you know it’s the lab leak or believe it was “natural”.
Trying to manage a crisis with propaganda always results in chaos, confusion and contradictions, where the truth is simple and consistent. They will never learn.
RE: Not clear why DOE has any reason to fund such a conclusion.
This is an example of DUPLICATIVE work that various government d3partments are doing, one agency not knowing what the others are doing.
This is how our tax dollars are being spent.
“Laboratory leak” is only one half the question. Was the “leak” of a virus of purely natural origin, or did gain of function research create a new viral strain that never occurred naturally.? That is the real heart of the matter.
Owen wrote: “Not clear why DOE has any reason to fund such a conclusion.”
As Stated in the article: “The Energy Department’s conclusion is the result of new intelligence and is significant because the agency has considerable scientific expertise and oversees a network of U.S. national laboratories, some of which conduct advanced biological research.”
SeekAndFind wrote: “This is an example of DUPLICATIVE work that various government d3partments are doing, one agency not knowing what the others are doing.”
Duplication is a feature, not a drawback. Duplication is the antidote to single minded organizations that overlook alternatives.
What relevance does the "Dept. of Energy" have about the covid-19 virus ?
It has the same reliability and credence as non-military Sec. Yellen, of the Treasury Department, commenting on the need for continuing the war in Ukraine.
Grenholm is nothing more than a 'space cadet', in position based on ideology rather than energy and power production and distribution.
Meritocracy has existed for generations for a reason !
Wuli wrote: ““Laboratory leak” is only one half the question. Was the “leak” of a virus of purely natural origin, or did gain of function research create a new viral strain that never occurred naturally.? That is the real heart of the matter.”
Another half of the question is ‘what are we going to do about it’ if it was a lab leak?
The US DoD conducted this bioweapon in cooperation with the CCP.
Read:
US defense dept contracted with Chinese Communist Party to deploy COVID vaccine against citizens
That’s 5th in a series that is linked here:
Articles tagged DOD Bioterrorism Series
https://www.lifesitenews.com/tags/tag/dod-bioterrorism-series/
Duh
check out the date
February 16, 2020: Senator Tom Cotton talks about the Chinese cover up and Wuhan lab
https://rumble.com/vilkpb-february-16-2020-senator-tom-cotton-talks-about-the-chinese-cover-up-and-wu.html
COVID is not the Bioweapon but the vaccines are!
COVID and the Jab together are the Bioweapon. When they are combined more deaths ensue.
Why are we now seeing the Jabbed getting COVID multiple times and now starting to die in larger numbers than the unVaxxed? Both COVID and the Jab working together destroy the immune system making the body vulnerable to everything.
Oops someone will be hung for letting the truth out for a fleeting moment.
This will come as a shock, but the Department of Energy is one of the largest funders of basic and applied science in the US. Remember it owns and operates a number of the national labs, including Livermore, Los Alamos, Sandia, Oak Ridge, Berekely, Argonne, SLAC, Fermilab, and Brookhaven. For historical reasons having to do with understanding radition effects it has alwasy funded a lot of work in the biological sciences as a consequence of which is has a large number of unique capabilities. Because of these, and the fact that DOE has lead the large scale high performance computing effort, it was largely responsible for the human genome sequencing effort.
Now, to be clear, DOE itself is just a sprawling federal bureaucracy of middling competence. But the laboratories it operates are first rate.
Only a small part of the DOE actually does energy.
CNN teaches us that a pangolin went to the wet market in Wuhan, had some bat soup and started sneezing...
Remember how for 3 years EVERYTHING they have been saying has been wrong and EVERYTHING we have been saying has been right, but WE have been banned for “misinformation”. Everything from election fraud, Hunter’s laptop, Russian collusion, COVID, etc. They get to LIE for 3 years without repercussions.
Like we really need some government grifters to tell us where it came from.
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