{"id":1861273,"date":"2023-02-26T11:34:18","date_gmt":"2023-02-26T16:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1861273"},"modified":"2023-02-26T11:34:43","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T16:34:43","slug":"new-intel-prompts-energy-dept-to-assess-covid-likely-leaked-from-wuhan-lab-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-intel-prompts-energy-dept-to-assess-covid-likely-leaked-from-wuhan-lab-report\/","title":{"rendered":"New Intel Prompts Energy Dept To Assess COVID Likely Leaked From Wuhan Lab: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-intel-prompts-energy-dept-to-assess-covid-likely-leaked-from-wuhan-lab-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1861273&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>A key U.S. agency for science has reportedly concluded that COVID was likely to have leaked from Wuhan&#8217;s Chinese laboratory.<\/p>\n<p>With its network of U.S. laboratories, the Energy Department revised its assessment to read with &#8220;low confidence&#8221; The pandemic began most likely with a laboratory leak. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/covid-origin-china-lab-leak-807b7b0a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Wall Street Journal was informed by sources<\/a>. According to the report, officials refused to share information about the new intelligence. This led the agency&#8217;s view to change from being undecided.<\/p>\n<p>The assessment was included in an update of a 2021 classified Report to Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines.<\/p>\n<p>According to the newspaper, officials of four agencies and the National Intelligence Council still believe in them. &#8220;low confidence&#8221; The natural emergence theory. The FBI estimated that 2021 would see the following: &#8220;moderate confidence&#8221; The pandemic probably began as a result of a laboratory leak. According to reports, the CIA and two other agencies have yet to make a determination.<\/p>\n<p>Wall Street Journal reported that the updated classified report confirms that COVID was not a result of a biological weapons program. Researchers and U.S. officials suspect that there may have been a leak from Wuhan\u2019s collection of laboratories.<\/p>\n<p>More than <a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.jhu.edu\/map.html\">6.8 million people have been diagnosed with COVID and they are now dead<\/a> Since the first cases were reported in Wuhan late December 2019,<\/p>\n<p>Beijing has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/06\/14\/world\/asia\/china-covid-wuhan-lab-leak.html\">Refusal to be at fault<\/a>The World Health Organization has resisted assertions made by many people, including former President Donald Trump. However, China&#8217;s lack of cooperation led to the World Health Organization investigating COVID&#8217;s source. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/who-abandon-covid-origin-investigation-china-data\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A key moment is reached when you are caught in a snag.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After President Joe Biden directed a U.S. intelligence review of the virus&#8217; origins in 2021 for 90 days, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/07\/16\/politics\/biden-intel-review-covid-origins\/index.html\">It was reported<\/a> Officials in his administration deemed the lab leak theory to be as plausible as the natural emergence theory. Biden criticised China&#8217;s lack of transparency after the inquiry. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2021\/08\/27\/statement-by-president-joe-biden-on-the-investigation-into-the-origins-of-covid-%E2%81%A019\/\">A further investigation was promised<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Energy Department &#8220;continues to support the thorough, careful, and objective work of our intelligence professionals in investigating the origins of COVID-19, as the President directed,&#8221; An agency spokesperson spoke with the Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New intelligence reportedly prompted a key U.S. science agency to surmise COVID likely leaked from a Chinese laboratory in Wuhan. The Energy Department, with its network of U.S. national laboratories, revised its assessment to say with \u201clow confidence\u201d that the pandemic likely began with a lab leak, sources told The Wall Street Journal. 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