During a Tuesday night interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier, FBI Director Christopher Wray was asked about the recent report from the Department of Energy concluding, with low confidence, that the COVID-19 virus originated from a lab leak in Wuhan.
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“The FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origin of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan,” Wray told Fox News host Bret Baier in an interview late Tuesday.
“Let’s step back for a second. You know, the FBI has folks—agents, professionals, analysts, virologists, microbiologist, etc.—who focus specifically on the dangers of biological threats, which include things like novel viruses like COVID and the concerns that they’re in the wrong hands—some bad guys, a hostile nation state, a terrorist, a criminal—the threats that those could pose,” he said. “Here you’re talking about a potential leak from a Chinese government-controlled lab that killed millions of Americans.”
“I should add that the work related to this continues and there are not a whole lot [of] details that are unclassified.”
“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.”
The FBI’s Twitter account confirmed Wray’s comments late Tuesday:
During the interview, #FBI Director Wray affirmed the Bureau's commitment to objectively seeking facts, upholding the Constitution, and protecting the American people. pic.twitter.com/KYejYhI6A4
— FBI (@FBI) March 1, 2023
#FBI Director Wray confirmed that the Bureau has assessed that the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic likely originated from a lab incident in Wuhan, China. pic.twitter.com/LcBVNU7vmO
— FBI (@FBI) March 1, 2023