FBI Director Christopher Wray tells Fox’s @BretBaier...

The origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan. Let me step back for a second. The FBI has folks — agents, professionals, analysts, virologists, microbiologists, etc. — who focus specifically on the dangers of biological threats, which include things like novel viruses like Covid. And the concerns that they’re in the wrong hands — some bad guys, a hostile nation-state a terrorist or criminal — the threats that those could pose.

So here you're talking about a potential leak from a Chinese government-controlled lab that killed millions of Americans and that's precisely what that capability was designed for. I should add that our work related to this continues. And there are not a whole lot of details I can share that aren’t classified. I will just make the observation that the Chinese government, it seems to me, has been doing its best to try to thwart and obfuscate the work that we’re doing.

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  • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Anyone who believes this for even 30 seconds would’ve believed that Iraq had WMDs and should be supremely embarrassed because this is way fucking dumber

    • CommCat [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      Americans are dumb, more so the Fox News watching ones, they'll believe this like they did Iraq WMDs. This ramping up of Anti-China propaganda is really terrifying. Fighting Russia in a proxy war is one thing, but a direct confrontation with China is WW3 material. US is a dying empire that is willing to take the world with them.

    • OgdenTO [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Yes. It is 100% of the time projection. If the US accuses someone of someone they are definitely doing it themselves. That's how they know it's possible and believable.

  • riseuppikmin [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    The dipshits are actually going to go to war with China, aren't they?

    • halfpipe [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      Yeah, that's been baked in ever since China became the center of world trade while the US was busy pissing trillions of dollars into failed wars.

    • iridaniotter [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      President Xi, expand the nuclear arsenal to MAD levels :yes-honey-left:

      • Des [she/her, they/them]
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        2 years ago

        don't worry they have enough to turn every one of our biggest cities into plasma vapor. and after our countervalue strike i assume russia won't let a good exchange go to waste and will (and should) finish us off with a full countervalue of their own

        • Gosplan14_the_Third [none/use name]
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          2 years ago

          I trust China not to do a first strike. I do not trust the United States (or Russia, which is why the escalation in Europe is bonkers).

          • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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            2 years ago

            Given the state of the US military, I question how many ICBMs won't just blow up on the launch pad.

            These weapons systems were shoddy when they were built, decades ago. And the modern nuclear readiness core has only gotten worse over time.

              • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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                2 years ago

                Given the number of weapons we have and the number you need to functionally end life on earth, I'm more than confident either country could do it.

                They're shoddy jobs, regardless.

      • culpritus [any]
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        2 years ago

        De Trick indeed

        this url is :chefs-kiss:

        https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/05/health/germs-fort-detrick-biohazard.html

        then this whole shooting that's never been explained

        https://www.cbsnews.com/news/frederick-maryland-shooting-fort-detrick-gunman-fantahun-woldesenbet/

        and just saw this mentioned as well:

        Fort Detrick made headlines in 2008 when Army biologist Bruce Edwards Ivins died of suicide at his base after learning that he would be named a suspect in the 2001 anthrax attack. He was never formally charged with posting letters that killed five people. ProPublica reported in 2011 that there were some doubts as to whether Ivins was the perpetrator.

    • Awoo [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      https://archive.is/dI0NS

      It has patented genetic code in it.

      • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Knowing how dumb IP laws are I wouldn't be shocked if Moderna patented some genetic code common to all coronaviruses. Wasn't there some thing a while back where a company wanted a patent on a part of the human genome? Lol

  • invo_rt [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    "The origins of the pandemic are MOST LIKELY a POTENTIAL lab incident in Wuhan... So here you're talking about a POTENTIAL leak..."

    Those hedge words. This is bullshit of the highest degree.

  • ComradeChairmanKGB [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Lied and fabricated a casus belli before going into Korea.

    Lied and fabricated a casus belli before going into Vietnam.

    Lied and fabricated a casus belli before going into Iraq.

    Definitely telling the truth about Covid being a Chinese bio weapon designed to kill Americans. Support this war or else.

    • DoubleShot [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I'll also add that the US ginned up anger towards the Germans during WW1 with the Lusitania and Zimmerman telegram, while they almost certainly were only interested in jumping into the war to ensure the Entente didn't lose and thus couldn't pay all their war debts to the US. But getting Americans killed over war debts ain't exactly popular.

  • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Fox probably got more people killed by covid than an actual bioweapon would have managed

  • pinglun [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    They get caught red-handed doing gain of function research which Fauci got up before Congress under oath and said they're not doing - and now they're using the classic "blame the foreigner" method to avoid blame for what they did.

    They're getting really really good at this. Unprecedented levels of control of public opinion. They're just handing people their opinions like handing out leaflets on the street.

    • Coca_Cola_but_Commie [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      It sucks that chuds capitalized on the Fauci hate train, because sometimes I'll be out in the world talking to libs or even mild socdem types and if they mention Fauci I know if I suggest Fauci is anything less than the greatest servant of the American people to ever live and a true hero then they're gonna look at me like I'm about to start screaming about how 5G is a mind-control plot orchestrated by the wokes.

      • Dr_Gabriel_Aby [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        That’s the point though. People defending him and people that think he is a lizard are being fed different propaganda from the same entities.

        They are doing whatever they can to make sure our point of view is last in the minds of Americans.

  • MolotovHalfEmpty [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    YOU KILLED MILLIONS OF AMERICANS YOU FUCKS! YOU DID! AND PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD WITH YOUR SHITTY, ANTI-SCIENCE BULLSHIT CULTURE AND VACCINE PROFITEERING! PEOPLE I KNEW & LOVED ARE FUCKING DEAD WHO PROBABLY WOULD HAVE BEEN FINE IF THEY LIVED IN CHINA. EVEN IF IT DID COME FROM A WUHAN MARKET AND NOT SOME AMERICAN LAB, YOU FUCKING DID THIS AND NOW YOU'RE TRYING TO USE IT AS A PRETEXT TO KILL MILLIONS MORE PEOPLE YOU FUCKING EVIL SCUM!

    :lenin-rage:

  • Goblinmancer [any]
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    2 years ago

    Imagine believing covid is a literal bioweapon but still decide to let people die to it for the "economy" (or not even bothering to wear a goddamn mask) :joker-amerikkklap:

    • CommunistBear [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      :galaxy-brain: they knew it was a bioweapon because they released it and they couldn't take it seriously without showing their hand

  • Flinch [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    :so-true: COVID is a bioweapon, that's why we didn't do anything to mitigate it's impact!

    this newest "bioweapon" push just makes me even more sure that COVID came from fort detrick. Every accusation, a confession.

    • MaoistLandlord [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      And they expect the world to follow along. But while they keep trying to spread the lab leak theory, whether it’s true or not, the global south won’t forget the west’s apathy when it came to vaccine donations and their response to opening patents. Hell, I imagine if it is a lab leak, they’ll be even more pissed because the US had all this info and still won’t help with the most basic form of treatment, vaccines.

  • CrimsonSage [any]
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    2 years ago

    Working hard to make that 2025 war prediction come true I see.

  • Rojo27 [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    And there are not a whole lot of details I can share that aren’t classified.

    Yeah, ok.

    I will just make the observation that the Chinese government, it seems to me, has been doing its best to try to thwart and obfuscate the work that we’re doing.

    IDK, seems like you guys do a good job of obfuscating whatever "work" you're going. Pure projection as always:edgeworth-shrug: