Friday, June 4, 2021

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

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