As part of a recently conducted interview with FBI Director Christopher Wray, the FBI assesses that one laboratory located in Wuhan, China, is the group that is responsible for the outbreak of the COVID pandemic and that there are highly classified materials within the Bureau which will back up its assessment.
These comments from Wray have taken place in the wake of the Department of Energy also releasing a recent assessment that the pandemic was the result of a lab leak from China, as reported in a story from The Wall Street Journal.
When questioned by Bret Baier, an anchor for FOx News, concerning the assessment from the FBI, Wray fired back, “the FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan.”
“The FBI has folks, agents, professionals, analysts, virologists, microbiologists, etc., who focus specifically on the dangers of biological threats, which include things like novel viruses, like COVID, and the concerns that in the wrong hands, some bad guys, a hostile nation-state, a terrorist, a criminal,” Wray went on. “The threats that those could pose.”
“So here you’re talking about a potential leak from a Chinese government-controlled lab that killed millions of Americans. And that’s precisely what that capability was designed for,” stated Wray. “I should add that our work related to this continues, and there are not a whole lot of details I can share that aren’t classified. I will just make the observation that the Chinese government, it seems to me, has been doing its best to try to thwart and obfuscate the work here. The work that we’re doing, the work that our U.S. government and close foreign partners are doing. And that’s unfortunate for everybody.”
WATCH:
FBI Director Christopher Wray says that COVID-19 likely originated in a lab in communist China
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) February 28, 2023
TRANSCRIPT:
BRET BAIER: There’s this Department of Energy study that says it’s likely to have come from a lab leak, although the confidence low, it cites the FBI. What is the determination by the FBI?
CHRISTOPHER WRAY: So as you note, Bret, the FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan. Let me step back for a second. You know, the FBI has folks, agents, professionals, analysts, virologists, microbiologists, etc., who focus specifically on the dangers of biological threats, which include things like novel viruses, like COVID, and the concerns that, in the wrong hands, some bad guys, a hostile nation-state, a terrorist, a criminal, the threats that those could pose. So here you’re talking about a potential leak from a Chinese government-controlled lab that killed millions of Americans. And that’s precisely what that capability was designed for. I should add that that our work related to this continues, and there are not a whole lot of details I can share that aren’t classified. I will just make the observation that the Chinese government, it seems to me, has been doing its best to try to thwart and obfuscate the work here. The work that we’re doing, the work that our U.S. government and close foreign partners are doing. And that’s unfortunate for everybody.
