National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan: 'No definitive answer’ from intelligence community on lab leak theory

National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said Sunday that he couldn't "confirm aliases deny" nan Wall Street Journal's reporting connected nan U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) caller conclusion that nan COVID-19 pandemic apt originated from an accidental laboratory leak successful China and added location was "no definitive answer."

CNN's Dana Bash asked Sullivan astir nan Journal's study connected Sunday and if he besides believed coronavirus started successful a lab. 

"There is simply a assortment of views successful nan intelligence community. Some elements of nan intelligence organization person reached conclusions connected 1 side, immoderate connected nan other. A number of them person said they conscionable don’t person capable accusation to beryllium sure," he said. 

"President Biden has directed many times each constituent of our intelligence organization to put effort and resources down getting to nan bottommost of this question," he continued. "And 1 of nan things successful that Wall Street Journal report, which I can’t corroborate aliases deny, but I will opportunity nan reference to nan Department of Energy, President Biden specifically requested that nan nationalist labs, which are a portion of nan Department of Energy, beryllium brought into this appraisal because he wants to put each instrumentality astatine usage to beryllium capable to fig retired what happened here." 

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National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan sits down pinch CNN's Dana Bash.  (Screenshot/CNN/StateOfTheUnion)

The WSJ first reported that nan Department of Energy concluded that coronavirus apt dispersed owed to an accidental leak astatine a Chinese laboratory. The outlet cited a classified intelligence study precocious provided to nan White House and cardinal members of Congress. 

Sullivan added that location was nary "definitive answer" connected nan COVID-19 laboratory leak mentation from nan intelligence community. 

The Department of Energy's conclusion was noted arsenic an update to a 2021 archive by Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines’s office, nan Journal reported. 

The Energy Department’s position is noteworthy owed to its technological expertise and because it oversees a web of U.S. nationalist laboratories, according to nan Wall Street Journal. Some of nan labs behaviour precocious biologic research.

People who publication nan classified study told nan WSJ that nan Energy Department classed its conclusion astatine "low confidence," while nan FBI classed its aforesaid conclusion successful 2021 that nan COVID-19 pandemic was nan consequence of an accidental laboratory leak astatine "moderate confidence."

U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm hosts a U.S. Department of Energy news convention successful Washington, U.S., December 13, 2022.  (REUTERS/Mary F. Calver/File Photo)

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Both nan FBI and nan Energy Department came to this conclusion for different reasons, nan Journal reported. 

Dr. Anthony Fauci said successful November that while he has an "open mind" astir nan laboratory leak theory, grounds "strongly" pointed elsewhere. 

Dr. Anthony Fauci, White House Chief Medical Advisor and Director of nan NIAID, responds to questions from Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) astatine a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee proceeding connected Capitol Hill connected January 11, 2022, successful Washington, D.C. Photo by Greg Nash-Pool/Getty Images) (Greg Nash-Pool/Getty Images)

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"We support a wholly unfastened mind arsenic to what nan root is," Fauci said during an question and reply connected CBS. "Having said that, if you look astatine nan introspection by highly qualified world scientists pinch nary governmental agendas — they've published successful peer-reviewed journals — that each accumulated evidence, peculiarly relating to nan Chinese bringing into nan Wuhan marketplace animals from nan chaotic that should not person been location … nan grounds is rather beardown that this is simply a earthy occurrence."