by The T-Room Staff of One
On Tucker Carlson’s June 3, 2021 show, Carlson takes on the question of why the U.S. government lacked interest in investigating where COVID came from – animal jumping to a human or a lab leak from one of the bio-labs in the Wuhan province area. Carlson highlights a report in Vanity Fair written by Katherine Eban who apparently bothered to delve into the lab-leak theory and what she documents is eye opening:
Behind closed doors, however, national security and public health experts and officials across a range of departments in the executive branch were locked in high-stakes battles over what could and couldn’t be investigated and made public.
A months long Vanity Fair investigation, interviews with more than 40 people, and a review of hundreds of pages of U.S. government documents, including internal memos, meeting minutes, and email correspondence, found that conflicts of interest, stemming in part from large government grants supporting controversial virology research, hampered the U.S. investigation into COVID-19’s origin at every step. In one State Department meeting, officials seeking to demand transparency from the Chinese government say they were explicitly told by colleagues not to explore the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s gain-of-function research, because it would bring unwelcome attention to U.S. government funding of it.
In an internal memo obtained by Vanity Fair, Thomas DiNanno, former acting assistant secretary of the State Department’s Bureau of Arms Control, Verification, and Compliance, wrote that staff from two bureaus, his own and the Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation, “warned” leaders within his bureau “not to pursue an investigation into the origin of COVID-19” because it would “‘open a can of worms’ if it continued.”
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But for most of the past year, the lab-leak scenario was treated not simply as unlikely or even inaccurate but as morally out-of-bounds. In late March, former Centers for Disease Control director Robert Redfield received death threats from fellow scientists after telling CNN that he believed COVID-19 had originated in a lab. “I was threatened and ostracized because I proposed another hypothesis,” Redfield told Vanity Fair. “I expected it from politicians. I didn’t expect it from science.”…
Carlson’s question “Why did they lie to us for so long?” is one in which should baffle any who have endured this god awful nightmare. Evasion by pretty much every federal agency, including the bureaucracies entrusted with the health and security of Americans, appears to be the modus operandi.
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It is becoming more likely it has everything to do with ‘gain of function’ funding doled out by Dr Anthony Fauci through the National Institutes of Health and to better understand why this is likely the source, I suggest pouring your favorite beverage and reading Eban’s lengthy and thorough article The Lab Leak Theory: Inside the Fight to Uncover COVID-19’s Origins by Eban…