The nuanced finding suggests the agency believes the totality of evidence makes a lab origin more likely than a natural origin. But the agency’s assessment assigns a low degree of confidence to this conclusion, suggesting the evidence is deficient, inconclusive or contradictory.

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    “The finding is not the result of any new intelligence, and the report was completed at the behest of the Biden administration and former CIA director William Burns.”

    • from the 2nd paragraph of the Guardian article

    I’m not arguing for the claim, only stating that I think this is the result of Biden’s administration.

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      Well of course they were going to investigate the possibility. They would be lax in their duties if they didn’t. But they have never said it was likely.