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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“No government consensus”
A consensus can be dead wrong. They can all agree on a false premise.
It was obvously a coup ran by the DNC, Intelligence and China to get Trump out of office.
Desperation
“White House: No government consensus on COVID lab leak theory”
White House: No government intelligence apparent on COVID lab leak theory
There,fixed it
Democrats: “what difference does it make?”
I think we have now been trained by Covid. We don’t want a consensus. What we want is evidence.
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.
Also, because of the work it does on nuclear weapons and other national security work it has a strong intel analysis effort centered at the labs.
Now, to be clear, DOE itself is just a sprawling federal bureaucracy of middling competence. But the laboratories it operates are first rate.
When ever the facts are the Biden staff always downplays it admit nothing on the failure list.
Thanks.
liars
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