Lab Leak in China , Likely Set Off Pandemic, , Says US Energy Department.<br />The U.S. Energy Department's most recent assessment of the cause of the coronavirus pandemic is based on new intelligence.<br />It represents a shift from its earlier, undecided assessment of the origins of the pandemic. .<br />National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan emphasized that different agencies have reached conflicting conclusions.<br />There is a variety of views in the intelligence community, Jake Sullivan, National Security Adviser, <br />via 'The New York Times'.<br />Some elements of the intelligence community have reached conclusions on one side, some on the other. , Jake Sullivan, National Security Adviser, <br />via 'The New York Times'.<br />A number of them have said they just don’t have enough information to be sure, Jake Sullivan, National Security Adviser, <br />via 'The New York Times'.<br />But right now, there is not a definitive answer that has emerged from the intelligence community on this question, Jake Sullivan, National Security Adviser, <br />via 'The New York Times'.<br />GOP Rep. Mike Gallagher, (R-WI), is a member of a House subcommittee investigating the pandemic's origins.<br />Evidence has been piling up for over a year in favor of the lab leak hypothesis, U.S. Rep. Mike Gallagher, (R-WI), <br />via 'The New York Times'.<br />I am glad some of our agencies are starting to listen to <br />common sense and change <br />their assessment, U.S. Rep. Mike Gallagher, (R-WI), <br />via 'The New York Times'.<br />Gallagher criticized the "Chinese Communist Party" for its willingness "to cover up" its knowledge of how the pandemic started.<br />[It is] an organization that was willing to cover up the origins of the pandemic and thereby cost us critical days, months and weeks and millions of lives in <br />the process, U.S. Rep. Mike Gallagher, (R-WI), <br />via 'The New York Times'.<br />While support of the theory seems split along party lines, some academics say there is reason to question the origin.<br />The lab leak origin for the Covid-19 pandemic is not, and was not, a conspiracy theory, Anthony Ruggiero, Foundation for Defense of Democracies Scholar, via 'The New York Times'
