Fun facts - While the house releases documents and by nature of being the government, makes these "official US Government Statements," there's no universe in which this should be taken as authoritative. In this case, this was written post GOP control of the house, so the document reads like a fox news press release. - The virus being leaked from a Wuhan lab is not reported by anyone outside of the conservative sphere. - If you read the actual article linked, there was no direct evidence (even the report calls it circumstantial) despite the summarizing headline saying otherwise. Most of the discussion is asking why it wasn't investigated (it was...). - Most importantly, asking whether it was leaked is not a big deal... unless you realize the context. [This is the context](https://www.pewresearch.org/race-ethnicity/2023/11/30/asian-americans-and-discrimination-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/). There's a direct link between such rhetoric and violence and discrimination against minorities. As such, blaming WIV for the virus outbreak should, at this point, be considered a dogwhistle.