{"id":1864749,"date":"2023-03-01T13:34:56","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T18:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1864749"},"modified":"2023-03-01T13:36:32","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T18:36:32","slug":"fbi-says-it-has-long-known-most-likely-covid-cause-was-lab-leak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-says-it-has-long-known-most-likely-covid-cause-was-lab-leak\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI Says It Has Long Known &#8216;Most Likely&#8217; COVID Cause Was Lab Leak"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Ffbi-says-it-has-long-known-most-likely-covid-cause-was-lab-leak%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=1864749&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>According to Christopher Wray, FBI director and Fox News interviewer, the Federal Bureau of Investigation concluded that the most probable cause of the COVID-19 epidemic was a leakage at China&#8217;s Wuhan Institute of Virology.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan,&#8221; Wray <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/fbi-director-says-covid-pandemic-most-likely-originated-chinese-lab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a>. &#8220;Here you are talking about a potential leak from a Chinese government-controlled lab.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wray&#8217;s comments backtest the theory of lab leaks, which mainstream media outlets have supported for decades. <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/media-change-tune-on-coronavirus-lab-leak\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">You have been mocked<\/a> Since the beginning of the pandemic. CNN host Jake Tapper called a laboratory leak a &#8220;new, bizarre conspiracy theory&#8221; It was promoted by Republicans and Joy Reid (MSNBC host) wrote it off. &#8220;debunked bunkum&#8221; Trump as a political shill. Apoorva Mandavilli is a science reporter at the New York Times. <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/02\/28\/new-york-times-msnbc-cnn-slammed-over-debunked-lab-leak-theory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blasted<\/a> This theory can be described as &#8220;racist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Fauci, former chief medical advisor to the White House, strongly denied that the COVID virus was caused by a laboratory leak. <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/02\/28\/fauci-has-an-open-mind-on-covid-lab-leak\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">It is possible to say<\/a> The theory was first proposed in October 2021. &#8220;molecularly impossible.&#8221; Fauci heads the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/federal-investigators-issue-damning-report-over-faucis-lax-oversight-of-wuhan-coronavirus-research\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Financing<\/a> Gain-of-function research at Wuhan Institute may be responsible to the mutation that causes COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>This news comes just days after it was reported that the Department of Energy had also been notified. <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/report-covid-likely-emerged-from-lab-leak-energy-dept-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Conclusion<\/a>\u00a0A lab leak was the cause of the pandemic. Some scientists have acknowledged that they dismissed the theory publicly for scientific reasons. However, they also didn&#8217;t want any association with Trump who believed the theory. <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/lab-leak-science-conspiracy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Fauci made a change of heart after the Energy report was published. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2023\/02\/27\/metro\/fauci-calls-an-open-mind-lab-leak-theory-sees-no-data-back-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Telling<\/a> The <em>Boston Globe<\/em> That he had an &#8220;open mind&#8221; The virus&#8217;s origins. &#8220;we may not ever know.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fox interviewed Wray and he also attacked the Chinese Communist government. &#8220;has been doing its best&#8221; To &#8220;thwart and obfuscate&#8221; Investigating the causes of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s unfortunate for everybody,&#8221; The director stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Bureau of Investigation has concluded that the most likely cause of the COVID-19 pandemic was a laboratory leak at China&#8217;s Wuhan Institute of Virology, FBI director Christopher Wray told Fox News in an interview released Tuesday.<br \/>\nThe post FBI Says It Has Long Known &#8216;Most Likely&#8217; COVID Cause Was Lab Leak appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":1072910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[4127,5591,8459,3654,4907,4244],"class_list":["post-1864749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-covid","tag-fbi","tag-lab","tag-leak","tag-likely","tag-most"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1864749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1072910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1864749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1864749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1864749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}