The nuanced finding suggests the agency believes the totality of evidence makes a lab origin more likely than a natural origin. But the agency’s assessment assigns a low degree of confidence to this conclusion, suggesting the evidence is deficient, inconclusive or contradictory.
It was not a conclusion then and it is not even one now. As the article says, they are calling this “low confidence.”
“The finding is not the result of any new intelligence, and the report was completed at the behest of the Biden administration and former CIA director William Burns.”
I’m not arguing for the claim, only stating that I think this is the result of Biden’s administration.
Well of course they were going to investigate the possibility. They would be lax in their duties if they didn’t. But they have never said it was likely.