Former FBI senior scientist Dr. Jason Bannan has made startling claims, alleging that the Biden administration intentionally disregarded vital evidence tying the origins of COVID-19 to a lab leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology
For years, government agencies, Big Tech platforms, and mainstream media dismissed the lab-leak theory as a baseless conspiracy.
However, mounting evidence, including analyses by the FBI and other experts, has lent significant credibility to this explanation.
Throughout the pandemic, the lab-leak hypothesis was vehemently denied by public health officials and key figures such as Dr. Anthony Fauci, as well as organizations like the CDC and WHO.
These institutions have consistently promoted the idea that the virus naturally jumped from animals to humans.
Simultaneously, discussions challenging this narrative faced widespread censorship on social media, with dissenting opinions often silenced or discredited.
Earlier this month, the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic released its final report following a two-year investigation into the COVID-19 crisis.
Titled “After Action Review of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons Learned and a Path Forward,” the report outlines compelling evidence supporting the lab-leak theory.
Key findings in the report include:
The virus exhibits biological traits not found in nature
Data indicates all COVID-19 cases stem from a single introduction to humans, unlike previous pandemics with multiple spillover events
Wuhan hosts China’s leading SARS research lab, known for conducting risky gain-of-function experiments under insufficient biosafety conditions
Researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) reportedly became ill with a COVID-like virus in late 2019, prior to the virus’s discovery at the wet market
Scientific evidence supporting a natural origin has yet to surface
As early as April 2020, Asia’s only Level 4 virology lab in Wuhan was likely the source of the outbreak. These reports, initially dismissed as “conspiracy theories,” included photos of Chinese researcher Dr. Shi Zhengli conducting coronavirus experiments on mice. Due to safety concerns, Dr. Zhengli’s work had previously been banned in the U.S..
Years later, even figures like the head of the WHO and outlets such as The New York Times have acknowledged the plausibility of a lab origin.
Earlier in 2024, the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic unveiled documents suggesting that the U.S. State Department was aware of a lab leak and the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) subsequent cover-up as early as July 2020.
These classified documents, initially redacted in Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, indicate the U.S. government withheld this knowledge from the public for years.
“Today, Chairman RepBradWenstrup requested StateDept rapidly declassify the documents and share the truth about the origins of COVID-19 with the American people,” the House Select Subcommittee wrote on X (formerly Twitter).
Adding to this, Dr. Jason Bannan has accused the Biden administration of deliberately omitting the FBI’s findings from critical discussions. The FBI had assessed with “moderate confidence” that a lab leak was the likely cause of the pandemic. However, Bannan claims this analysis was excluded from a key intelligence briefing with President Biden in 2021.
According to The Times:
“The FBI was excluded from a secret intelligence briefing with President Biden to discuss the origins of the Covid-19 virus after concluding that the pandemic was caused by a lab leak, it is claimed.
In May 2021, the White House ordered multiple intelligence agencies and national laboratories to investigate whether the virus had escaped from a Chinese laboratory or was transmitted from an animal to a human — as argued by most scientists at the time.
A few months later, the classified findings of the investigation were organised by the National Intelligence Council and presented to Biden.
The dominant view, shared by four agencies, was that the pandemic had occurred naturally. Only the FBI concluded with ‘moderate confidence’ that a lab leak was likely to have caused it.”
Dr. Bannan, speaking to The Wall Street Journal, expressed his surprise at the exclusion:
“Being the only agency that assessed that a laboratory origin was more likely, and the agency that expressed the highest level of confidence in its analysis of the source of the pandemic, we anticipated the FBI would be asked to attend the briefing. I find it surprising that the White House didn’t ask.”
