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2021-06-05 Government Corruption
State Department staff warned officials NOT to investigate Wuhan lab's gain-of-function research because it would 'open a can of worms'
  • [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] 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
Posted by Fred 2021-06-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11145 views ]  Top
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#1 Certainly wouldn't want to expose the illicit activities of Other government Agency entities now would we ?

On another possibly related topic, any COVID news from that pesky Chinese Uyghur community ?

Posted by Besoeker 2021-06-05 02:34||   2021-06-05 02:34|| Front Page Top

#2 They're globalist not Americans. That's who they watch out for.
Posted by Procopius2k 2021-06-05 07:47||   2021-06-05 07:47|| Front Page Top

#3 Seems like the worms are already out of the can and not about to go back in.
Posted by JohnQC 2021-06-05 13:38||   2021-06-05 13:38|| Front Page Top

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