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China scoffs at FBI claim that Wuhan lab leak likely caused COVID pandemic
Reuters ^ | March 1, 2023

Posted on 03/04/2023 1:29:54 PM PST by grundle

WASHINGTON, March 1 (Reuters) - The FBI has assessed that a leak from a laboratory in the central Chinese city of Wuhan likely caused the COVID pandemic, director Christopher Wray said on Tuesday, a claim China said had "no credibility whatsoever".

"The FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan," Wray told Fox News.

His comments follow a Wall Street Journal report on Sunday that the U.S. Energy Department had assessed with low confidence the pandemic resulted from an unintended lab leak in China.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: ccp; chinascoffs; communists; coronavirus; covid; covid19; democrats; doj; donatefreerepublic; fbi
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1 posted on 03/04/2023 1:29:54 PM PST by grundle
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To: grundle

Well, they would ... wouldn’t they?


2 posted on 03/04/2023 1:31:06 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (“You want it one way, but it's the other way”)
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To: grundle

China always has the ultimate handle - the grip they have on the corrupt, inept, and totally dishonest Biden family and their media/FBI/DOJ/IRS/congress cohorts. Face it, folks, the corruption is so deep that your septic tank is cleaner than D.C.


3 posted on 03/04/2023 1:32:09 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: grundle

The COVID-19 virus really did come from the Wuhan lab…WITHOUT A DOUBT.

But my skeptical nature says the FBI’s SUDDEN INTEREST in the subject is nothing more than the FBI SHOUTING ‘SQUIRREL’ to distract from Congressional interest in the FBI’s involvement in planning and triggering January 7 events.


4 posted on 03/04/2023 1:35:57 PM PST by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA. -PRO-MAXI)
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To: grundle

Definition of gaslighting


5 posted on 03/04/2023 1:36:12 PM PST by HollyB
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To: grundle

I agree with China. It was not a leak. It was a deliberate release. DC officialdom suddenly deciding that it was a leak is nothing but a fallback position from their original lie that it was not man-made. Bastards are still lying to us. Once it became obvious that it was man-made, their choice was to admit the truth that it was a lie to stop the Chinese protests that were spreading across the country, and to derail Donald Trump‘s reelection. They either had to admit that, or fall back on the sloppy concept, that it was just an innocent leak. They are still lying.


6 posted on 03/04/2023 1:36:30 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: grundle
"Based on the poor track record of fraud and deception of the U.S. intelligence community, the conclusions they draw have no credibility whatsoever," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning told reporters in Beijing.

Bastard commie has a point. But until an actual bat can be found with the virus, which they've been looking to find for years, the assumption must be that it was man made, and Wuhan had a lab doing that exact kind of research.

The only way the story will ever move forward is for US witnesses to start talking about what US agencies and companies were doing with the Wuhan lab. So far Andrew Huff is the only one directly involved who has been willing to come clean, because he was actually opposed to gain of function research. He was VP at EcoHealth alliance, but had left before it all seriously hit the fan over there.

7 posted on 03/04/2023 1:38:02 PM PST by Golden Eagle (Florida is where WOKE goes to DIE!)
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To: grundle

(leak)

It was deliberate.

Insert pic of Fauci laughing.


8 posted on 03/04/2023 1:38:30 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: grundle

Covid Pitch Meeting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BepDADNtJA


9 posted on 03/04/2023 1:40:04 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: grundle

Why now? Why is the establishment finally coming around to what sensible were excoriated for suggesting from the beginning?


10 posted on 03/04/2023 1:42:28 PM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: grundle

The source was the lab.

But...........China and Democrats, along with Facebook, Twitter, Washington Post and CNN fact checkers say other wise.

Who to believe?


11 posted on 03/04/2023 1:53:28 PM PST by Nifty
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It wasn’t a leak... It was an intentional release.


12 posted on 03/04/2023 1:53:42 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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To: DesertRhino

You beat me to it!


13 posted on 03/04/2023 1:54:32 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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To: grundle

“Hahaha Chris, be sure to look in your mailbox for the next check that won’t be in it!”


14 posted on 03/04/2023 2:17:41 PM PST by bigbob
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To: grundle

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15 posted on 03/04/2023 2:43:13 PM PST by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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To: House Atreides

what happened on January 7th?

there was a peaceful protest on the 6th. is that the date you meant?


16 posted on 03/04/2023 2:48:07 PM PST by cableguymn
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To: cableguymn

Yes, of course I meant the 6th.


17 posted on 03/04/2023 2:49:47 PM PST by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA. -PRO-MAXI)
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To: grundle

CCP is a wicked horrible regime that makes the corrupt US federal government look benevolent.

To be a Chinese subject in China is a curse. China suffered through anarchy and foreign domination through the 19th and during the 20th until Japan was defeated. Since then they have had to endure authoritarian totalitarian regimes that have resulted in unprecedented democide.


18 posted on 03/04/2023 2:54:19 PM PST by grumpygresh (Civil disobedience by non-compliance; jury and state nullification. )
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To: LegendHasIt
Probably, but we may never have evidence to prove that.

What we can prove is that it was deliberately spread, from Wuhan, by the CCP, to the US and Europe.

19 posted on 03/04/2023 2:56:42 PM PST by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: grundle
Well, I would scoff at them too. After about 3 years? They are coming out of this as if they had an epiphany.

They have lost a lot of credibility and are under scrutiny. Being questioned vigorously by the republican reps, highlighting certain potential illegal activities. Recently they have been caught wanting to spy on Catholic churches they don't approve of.

So they took a break from swatting pro-life sidewalk counselors and their young families, to produce this rather serious pronouncement.

It just looks like deflection and a PR stunt.

20 posted on 03/04/2023 3:07:38 PM PST by Moorings
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