The onetime lab-leak "Conspiracy" has come full circle with the revelation that 15 federal agencies, from the National Institutes of Health to three Cabinet-level departments and multiple components, could have warned the public as early as 2018 of the research planned by China's Wuhan Institute of Virology and EcoHealth Alliance, its nonprofit conduit for federal funding.
The Rocky Mountain Laboratories, part of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases led by Anthony Fauci for four decades, was even listed as a "Partner" for the WIV project known as DEFUSE, for which EcoHealth President Peter Daszak sought funding at an interagency pitch day for the Preventing Emerging Pathogenic Threats program.
Another is the Columbia University Lipkin Lab run by Ian Lipkin, who originally told Fauci there was a "Nightmare of circumstantial evidence" tying WIV to SARS-CoV-2.
Lipkin then coauthored the Proximal Origin paper dismissing lab-leak, which Fauci and then-NIH Director Francis Collins covertly shaped.
While Fauci denied under oath that EcoHealth's Daszak was even an "Acquaintance," he gave a half-hour presentation in a workshop session moderated by Daszak on "Emerging viral diseases," former New York Times drug industry reporter Alex Berenson noted on X. "Lying under oath is one of those crimes that only counts when you contradict establishment narratives," independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wrote on X, referring to Berenson's claim that Fauci perjured himself.
A libertarian thorn in the side of both parties who even referred Fauci to the Justice Department for prosecution, Paul is one of the few senators to continually press the feds for what they knew before SARS-CoV-2 emerged.
The House Oversight Committee and its Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic have been far more aggressive, prompting Democrats to respond to the steady disclosure of Fauci's early 2020 communications with scientists about the unlikely features SARS-CoV-2 by tarring their witnesses as racists and conspiracy theorists.
The subcommittee said Fauci repeatedly claimed he could not recall important details about COVID-19 origins, GoF research or related conversations in transcribed interviews, though the transcript won't be released until lawyers for Fauci, Republicans and Democrats review it.
Fauci will reportedly receive a record-breaking $350,000-plus in the first year of his retirement pension.
RML Virus Ecology Section Chief Vincent Munster's involvement in DEFUSE and "NIH's participation in the PREEMPT Proposers Day," which DARPA hosted in January 2018, "Raises serious concerns" and "Appears to contradict" Fauci's testimony that NIH didn't know about DEFUSE, Paul wrote to NIH Director Monica Bertagnolli.
"Anyone who knew about the 2018 application to engineer human optimized furin cleavage sites into SARS coronaviruses but who did not speak up when it became clear such a novel coronavirus was responsible for the #COVID19 pandemic has significant accounting to do," Jamie Metzl, a former Clinton administration official and World Health Organization adviser, wrote on X. Metzl testified at the first GOP-led COVID subcommittee hearing that his informal group of COVID origins experts that leaned toward lab-leak had "Zero success" placing papers in scientific journals the first year of the pandemic.
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