The FBI Thinks Covid Leaked From a Chinese Lab

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

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🗓️ 3 March 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Two federal agencies, the Energy Department and the FBI, reignite the debate over whether the Covid-19 pandemic began naturally or whether the virus escaped from a Wuhan lab. The White House says there's no consensus in the intelligence community, but why was the lab-leak theory dismissed for so long, and are we any closer to finding the truth? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:39.0	The Energy Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigations say they believe the COVID-19
0:44.1	pandemic began with a lab leak. Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.
0:50.0	We are joined today by my colleagues, columnist Alicia Finley and editor of board member
0:55.3	Meneh Uquay-Buru. The Wall Street Journal had a huge scoop on Sunday saying that the U.S.
1:02.9	Department of Energy had concluded that the COVID-19 virus began with a lab leak in Wuhan, China.
1:10.4	And one thing that I would think is important to say the outside here, Alicia, is there were some
1:15.9	comments that Daily Show made a joke that the host was waiting for the DMV to weigh in here.
1:21.2	But correct me if I'm wrong, the Energy Department has some real serious expertise on the biological
1:26.4	side as well, doesn't it? Right, so I think people forget that the Energy Department oversees our
1:32.2	national laboratories and does actually do a lot of study on biotechnology and emerging biological
1:38.7	chemical threats in addition to overseen your nuclear technology. So it has particular expertise
1:45.3	actually in the scientific realm. Actually, if you go to the website, they know that we put a
1:50.3	world-class facilities up to the minute advances in the biocytes, physical sciences, nanotechnology,
1:56.4	and imaging and measurement science to solve problems and matter. And this also involves genomics,
2:02.7	molecular technology, and nanotechnology. So if I were to guess what they were doing is one,
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