Spy chief commits to sharing classified assessment on Wuhan lab leak with Congress

THe is the head of U.S. intelligence community Share with Congress Energy Department’s Classified assessment concluding COVID-19 most probably originated from a Wuhan Leakage in the lab

Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines The first official in the United States to confirm the new assessment publicly Leaning in favour of the Chinese laboratory leak hypothesis A Wednesday hearing prior to the Senate Intelligence Committee, On Thursday, she went even further and committed to sharing the bombshell assessment in classified form with the House Intelligence Committee.

WHERE THE THINGS STAND DURING WUHAN LABLEAK DEBATE

Energy Department Assessment in favor of a laboratory leak is the first movement since the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released an assessment in 2021 stating that one U.S. intelligence agency — now known to be the FBI — With “moderate confidence” COVID-19 Most likely, the fusion occurred in Wuhan’s lab. While four U.S. intelligence agencies and the National Intelligence Council believed in just, “low confidence” COVID-19 was most likely of natural origin.

Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R–OH), chairman House Select Committee for the Coronavirus Pandemic Telled Haines on Thursday “it’s my understanding that the DOE would be willing to show us their underlying report, especially their updated report, but since ODNI owns the assessment you have to approve that.”

Haines replied, “On the DOE assessment, absolutely, I suspect it would have to be in classified form; I’m sure it’s a classified report, but more than happy to share any final assessment that they’ve done if they are comfortable with it. I can’t imagine myself standing in the way.”

Wenstrup also claimed that “finding the origins of covid is important” Haines replied that he had asked ODNI several times who the intelligence community spoke with during assessments of COVID-19’s origins. He also requested that Haines share this information. Haines refused to back down.

“One problem for us is that we obviously want to be able to consult with outside expertise … in fields related to COVID-19,” Haines added that experts from outside often provide valuable insight. “do not want to be known as consulting with the intelligence community.”

Wenstrup claimed that he was speaking about Haines sharing this information in a classified environment, emphasizing that “we need to know who they are” To better understand why certain elements of spy agencies have landed where they do.

Haines refused to reveal the names of outside experts, even in classified settings. However, he told Congressman that “if there is anybody that you want us to talk to who you feel like we haven’t, I commit to you that we will absolutely take those names and we will ensure that we are consulting with them as well.”

The spy chief Confirmed The day before the Energy Department “has changed its view slightly — with low confidence it says that a lab leak is most likely, but they do so for different reasons than the FBI does, and their assessments are not identical.”

Christopher Wray, FBI Director, noted that at that hearing. As he had Last week, that “the FBI has long assessed, going all the way back to the summer of 2021, that the origin of the pandemic was likely a lab incident in Wuhan.”

Haines stated that intelligence comm was also a part of Haines’s statement.