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Because President Biden asked the intelligence community to look into that [1]. The Department of Energy has an intelligence group; they have to, since they loo
by credit_guy 4y ago
Because President Biden asked the intelligence community to look into that [1]. The Department of Energy has an intelligence group; they have to, since they look after the nukes. They look after the US nukes mainly, but they keep an eye on the other guys' nukes as well.
[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/08/27/statement-by-president-joe-biden-on-the-investigation-into-the-origins-of-covid-%E2%81%A019/ https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases...
- chii 4y agothat doesn't answer the question - it just answers what happened ; that DoE has some resources and it was used to do this investigation. It didn't answer _why_. It could be that nobody can tell why, of course.
- baja_blast 4y agoThe DOE runs the most advanced biolabs in the country, out of all the intelligence agencies they have the most scientific resources at their disposal. https://science.osti.gov/-/media/nvbl/pdf/DOE_Laboratory_Capabilities.pdf https://science.osti.gov/-/media/nvbl/pdf/DOE_Laboratory_Cap...