Bureaucrats with advanced degrees are still bureaucrats

REVEALED: State Department staff warned officials NOT to investigate Wuhan lab's gain-of-function research because it would 'open a can of worms' and expose US funding

• New report in Vanity Fair exposes the tug-of-war over COVID origin investigation
• Trump appointee in State Department was warned by staff to back off lab theory
• Staffers feared it would expose US funding for gain-of-function research
• WIV received grants for the research through nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance 
• EcoHealth head Peter Daszak spearheaded effort to crush lab leak theory
• Top WIV scientist admitted in 2019 that some Chinese labs were 'neglected' 
• Former Trump Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the National Institute of Health tried to suppress the department's investigation
• Pompeo said there was pushback in his own department from people who did not agree with him or Trump 
• He also said he had to deal with 'internal debate' from the NIH