Also Read: GOP launches probe into COVID origins with letter to Fauci The FBI has experts who focus on biological threats, including the danger of novel viruses like COVID-19 falling into the wrong hands, whether that be "bad guys", a hostile nation state, terrorists or criminals, Wray explained.
He noted that the Chinese government had been actively working to hinder investigations into the virus's origins. Wray's comments come after the US Energy Department concluded earlier that, according to a classified intelligence study recently given to the White House and important members of Congress, the Covid pandemic most likely resulted from a laboratory breach.
Prior to this, the Energy Department couldn't decide how the virus emerged. The latest study emphasised how many intelligence community stakeholders reached divergent conclusions regarding the pandemic's genesis.
In October 2021, CNN cited two sources familiar with the matter while reporting that the FBI had “moderate" confidence about the lab leak theory.