Christopher Wray: Getting to High Ground Ahead of the Truth Tsunami
Now he tells us!
Wray’s remark did not unleash a frenzy of invective, in contrast to the Department of Energy’s earlier expression of the same conclusion. For example, the truly nasty piece of work Colbert screeched that the DoE needed to “stay in its lane.” (Colbert’s is apparently the I-get-to-tell-the-government-to-stay-in-its-lane lane). Colbert has not provided Wray similar instruction. Other media outlets that criticized the DoE have also been notably silent about Wray’s revelation.
Although the admission that this was the FBI’s view is what has been most commented on, what stands out to me is that it has been “for quite some time now.” How long, exactly? And why has the FBI hidden its lamp under a basket for so long?
And crucially: why is it lifting the basket now?
Is this part of a telling-the-truth-slowly strategy on the part of the administration? Is Wray trying to get out ahead of future revelations and keep the FBI’s skirts clean?
Suffice it to say that knowing him, his motivation for saying this now is political, and for purposes of self-preservation, not some commitment to the truth. After all, Wray is a past master at dummying up or evading questions (“sorry, Senator, I can’t answer because I have a plane to catch”).
Wray’s statement, and the DoE’s, is of course vindication to those who argued the possibility, and indeed the likelihood, of a Wuhan lab leak. Though some claimed this was a deliberate leak–part of a Chinese biowar strategy–I and most others who favored the lab leak hypothesis believed it was accidental, while not ruling out that the research itself was military in nature.
Of all of the media- and government-enforced narratives, the one that excoriated and anathematized anyone who advanced this hypothesis was always the most puzzling to me. Why did it matter SO much to the establishment where COVID originated?
Short of a needed (but unlikely to occur) lustration, the best we can do is reason from the clues that we have, starting with (a) who was clearly behind the campaign to discredit this hypothesis?, and (b) cui bono?
The answers to both questions are the same: the CDC, and in particular, Anthony Fauci. The release of Fauci’s emails last year revealed that he, others at CDC, and CDC adjacent scientists and NGOs almost immediately orchestrated a campaign to denigrate this hypothesis and those arguing for it, and advance the natural origins alternative. The Twitter files have subsequently revealed government efforts (including, I might add, the efforts of Wray’s FBI) to censor those even discussing lab leak origins as well as other transgressions of the COVID party line.
The media, of course, quickly snapped to attention, saluted, and relentlessly promoted Fauci’s/the CDC’s narrative.
And how did this benefit Fauci and the CDC? Well, the only razor I’ve shaved with in the last 44 years is Occam’s, and his razor says: because Fauci and the CDC were deeply implicated in the activities of the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
In other words, Fauci et al doth protest too much, which implicates them as surely as Lady Macbeth. (Although the Lady at least had the decency to go mad out of remorse, which Fauci has not, suggesting that he is a sociopath, if not a psychopath.)
(I note that the Democratic Party is also a beneficiary, as it used the discrediting of the lab leak hypothesis as a way of discrediting Trump, who had asserted it.)
Every day that a natural host is not discovered is another strike against the natural origins hypothesis, and gives further weight in support of the leak alternative. Three years with no host identified despite an intense search–and the keen interest of the CCP in finding one–makes the natural origins hypothesis highly incredible.
Unlike Fauci, I am not invested in either hypothesis: I am invested in the truth. I am also heavily invested in antipathy to censorship, especially censorship at the behest of interested actors in government. The suppression of any discussion over the lab leak hypothesis, and the anathematizing of anyone who dared speak it, represents a very dark episode in American history.
And the hits keep on coming. Recent evidence (the Cochrane Report) demonstrating the inefficacy of masks. The accumulating evidence on the lack of efficacy of the mRNA “vaccines”–and the health risks they create. And perhaps most importantly, the accumulation of overwhelming evidence that the costs of lockdowns massively outweighed any benefits.
With regards to the latter, the release of WhatsApp messages from the execrable Matt Hancock, formerly the UK’s Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, and more recently reality show contestant, demonstrates that despite all of the arrogant assertions that those in power were acting in the name of Science, they were actually acting in the name of power. Lockdowns were not a well-intentioned policy error, they were a malign policy forced on the public by loathsome figures like Matt Hancock (and Tony Fauci and Deborah Birx and dozens of others in virtually every country of the world, save Sweden).
I called bullshit on the failures of governments even to evaluate trade-offs with respect to lockdowns from the very time they were first mooted. And “whoops, my bad!” won’t make it all better–as if these disgusting creatures even have the decency to say that: they admit nothing.
What makes it all the more egregious and infuriating is that these same people who were the industrial scale producers of disinformation and misinformation also dared (and continue to dare) to scold us (and punish us) for promoting disinformation.
When in fact, there is a tsunami of evidence showing that those who questioned them from the first were right, and they were wrong.
In light of all this, I think that what Wray is doing is trying to get to high ground ahead of the tsunami hitting land in DC, London, etc. It’s cold comfort, in light of the havoc of the last three years. But revenge is a dish best served cold, and God willing the dish has cooled enough in these past years to make the time of reckoning nigh.
Though I seriously doubt there are enough lampposts.