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The assessment comes after CIA Director John Ratcliffe was confirmed this week.

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    Publisher's Note: This post appears here courtesy of the The Daily Wire. The author of this post is Ryan Saavedra.

    The CIA said on Saturday that it now assesses that a lab leak from communist China was responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic that upended the world several years ago.

    The announcement came after CIA Director John Ratcliffe was overwhelmingly confirmed by the U.S. Senate this week.

    "CIA assesses with low confidence that a research-related origin of the COVID-19 pandemic is more likely than a neutral origin based on the available body of reporting," the agency said in a statement. "CIA continues to assess that both research-related and natural origin scenarios of the COVID-19 pandemic remain plausible."

    "We have low confidence in this judgement and will continue to evaluate any available credible new intelligence reporting or open-source information that could change CIA's assessment," the statement added.

    The New York Times reported that the decision to reassess the origins of the pandemic came after the Biden administration "ordered a new classified review of the pandemic's origin" during the administration's final weeks in office.

    Ratcliffe simply declassified and released the results of the assessment, thus dispelling insinuations that he politicized intelligence.

    The report said that the new analysis comes after the agency took a closer look at the conditions inside high security labs in Wuhan before the outbreak.

    The Wall Street Journal reported late last year that the Biden administration suppressed information from U.S. intelligence agencies that indicated a lab leak in communist China was the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic.

    The FBI was the only government agency that assessed that a lab leak was the likely source of the pandemic, and had "moderate confidence" in their evaluation. Four other government departments said they believed the pandemic had a zoonotic origin - meaning that it came from animals - but they said they had "low confidence" in their assessment, according to The Wall Street Journal.

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    When National Intelligence Director Avril Haines briefed Biden in August 2021, three months after Biden ordered a 90-day review to determine where the pandemic came from, the FBI was not asked to attend the meeting.

    Jason Bannan, who has a Ph.D. in microbiology, joined the FBI after the 9/11 attacks to bolster its expertise in matters related to biological weapons, chemical weapons, and more.

    "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," Bannan told The Wall Street Journal. "I find it surprising that the White House didn't ask."

    The Wall Street Journal investigation found that officials in the Biden administration sought to keep certain information from becoming public about the lab leak theory, and that the FBI was not the only agency that thought the pandemic originated in a Chinese lab.

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