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Comment by Christopher Wray
Director of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
The FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan.AI Verified (Feb 28, 2023)
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Fox News
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The quote is directly about the complete statement’s core claim—the origin of COVID-19—and says the FBI assessed it was "most likely" a lab incident in Wuhan, which makes a lab-origin stance substantially more likely than natural spillover. The article context also presents this as Wray’s view on COVID’s origins. ([foxnews.com](https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-director-says-covid-pandemic-most-likely-originated-chinese-lab))
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 1h ago
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The quote explicitly says the FBI assessed the pandemic's origins were "most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan," which supports the lab-incident theory over natural spillover; the Fox article also paraphrases this as a likely "lab leak." ([foxnews.com](https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-director-says-covid-pandemic-most-likely-originated-chinese-lab))
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 1h ago
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The provided Fox News URL contains the sentence in quotation marks and attributes it to Christopher Wray; the page is published February 28, 2023. AP and PolitiFact separately reported the same wording from Wray’s Fox interview, corroborating the attribution. ([foxnews.com](https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-director-says-covid-pandemic-most-likely-originated-chinese-lab))
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 1h ago
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