Fair point, you are right, it's irrelevant, I guess I was just trying to preemptively dispel an association to trump. The committee is bi-partisan, but it did have a republican majority at the time the report was released.
The senate report is of course not the only government report on covid origins. Most recently the CIA has commented that the virus is "more likely" to have leaked from a lab.[0]
> The virus is not closely related to any known wild viruses that have or were being studied by humans.
The closest known virus is RaTG13, collected by WIV in 2013[1]. WIV took down it's online database of bat viruses on 12 September 2019[4]. Potentially to conceal it's custody of a closer related virus.
> The technology and knowledge to create a working virus like SARS-CoV-2 from known distantly related viruses does not exist- it simply could not be done accidentally or intentionally.
Peter Daszak's EcoHealth Alliance, applied for funding[2] to insert human proteolytic cleavage sites into SARS-like coronaviruses[3].
[0]: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd9qjjj4zy5o
[1]: https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Declass...
[2]: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21066966-defuse-prop...
[3]: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/363729325_DRASTIC_-...
[4]: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/349073738_An_invest...