US FBI: COVID-19 leaked from laboratory 3 years ago - Korean media

It has come to light belatedly that the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) concluded three years ago that the COVID-19 virus was artificially created in a laboratory.
The Wall Street Journal reported on the 26th (local time) that Jason FBI, who was in charge of the investigation at the time,
This was reported through a special report quoting Dr. Bannan. President Biden ordered US intelligence agencies to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 virus in 2021.
The National Intelligence Commission (NIC) and four intelligence agencies subsequently concluded that the natural origin of the virus, that it had jumped from a wild animal to humans, was plausible, but only the FBI believed it had come from a laboratory.
Dr. Bannan, a microbiology expert who has worked for the FBI for more than 20 years on biological weapons, said, "The only way the FBI has determined that the virus came from a laboratory is to
The FBI tried to report this conclusion to President Biden, but was excluded from the White House briefing and was not allowed to speak to the media.
According to the WSJ, there were others besides the FBI who believed the virus was artificially created and released.
Three scientists from the National Center for Medical Information and Communications Technology (NCMI) concluded through genetic analysis that the virus was created in a laboratory. However, their findings were not included in the White House briefing.
The WSJ analyzed that the White House's refusal to accept the FBI's findings appears to be related to the divisions in the scientific and political communities at the time.
In 2020, then-US President Donald Trump sparked a political controversy by claiming there was evidence that the COVID-19 virus leaked from a Chinese laboratory.
In particular, the medical journal The Lancet published a statement by some scientists calling the theory that the virus had leaked from a laboratory a "conspiracy theory."
One of the scientists was from a research group that has collaborations with the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China, which is suspected of leaking the virus.
Dr Bannan, now retired from the FBI, said "any final conclusions regarding the origins of the COVID-19 virus should be reconsidered."
He said.