This agency oversees a network of 17 US national laboratories, some of which carry out advanced biological research.
The United States Department of Energy has joined other federal agencies such as the FBI in its conclusion that Covid “most likely” originated from a leak in a Chinese laboratory, the newspaper reported. The Wall Street Journal.
The newspaper, which quotes “a classified intelligence report recently provided to the White House and key members of Congress (of the USA)”, points out that four other US departments continue to consider that the coronavirus outbreak was probably the result of natural transmission, while two others are undecided.
The New York newspaper points out that the conclusion of the Department of Energy is the result of reading new intelligence data and considers this conclusion significant because this agency oversees a network of 17 US national laboratoriessome of whom carry out advanced biological research.
However the Journal points out that the Department of Energy makes this assertion with “low confidence,” while when the FBI reached the same conclusion in 2021 it rated its confidence level as “moderate.”.
Depending on the quality of the information and its provenance, the US intelligence services usually assign three levels of confidence to their conclusions: high, moderate and low.
White House National Security Adviser, Jake Sullivan, refused to confirm or deny the veracity of the information published byr The Wall Street Journal.
In an interview this Sunday on CNN, Sullivan limited himself to pointing out that US intelligence has not yet reached a definitive answer about the origin of Covid-19 And while some agencies believe the virus originated in a laboratory, others say they don’t have enough information to make a conclusion.
The President of the USA, Joe Biden, asked at the beginning of his term, in May 2021, the intelligence community to investigate the origins of the pandemic.
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