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BOMBSHELL: U.S. State Department Tried to Block Investigation of Lab Leak at Wuhan
PJ Media ^ | June 3, 2021 | Rick Moran

Posted on 06/03/2021 11:38:07 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat

A report in Vanity Fair details actions by some members of the U.S. State Department to block efforts to investigate the origins of the coronavirus because the inquiry could open “a can of worms.” An internal memo sent to department heads by Thomas DiNanno, former acting assistant secretary of the State Department’s Bureau of Arms Control, Verification, and Compliance, warned “not to pursue an investigation into the origin of COVID-19.”

The “can of worms” in question was the extensive funding by the U.S. government into the Wuhan Virology Lab’s “gain-of-function” virus research. It’s unclear whether DiNanno was concerned that an investigation would uncover evidence of a lab leak or the extent to which the U.S. was funding dangerous research.

Indeed, there’s a lot more going on with this gain-of-function research than has ever been revealed. There appears to be a powerful lobby within the U.S. government that is heavily invested in the dangerous research and is serious about keeping it quiet. Former CDC chairman 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.”...

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Hmm. I wonder if Redfield has given up a lot of the goods.
1 posted on 06/03/2021 11:38:07 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
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To: CheshireTheCat

A ‘Bombshell’ will be someone is finally arrested for this crap.
Which ain’t gonna happen. .


2 posted on 06/03/2021 11:41:14 AM PDT by Little Ray (Corporations don't pay taxes. They collect them.)
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To: CheshireTheCat

“Science gone political”


3 posted on 06/03/2021 11:41:50 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: CheshireTheCat

Is Dr. Redfield STILL ALIVE??


4 posted on 06/03/2021 11:41:52 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: CheshireTheCat

Vanity Fair? Imagine that - an attempt at real journalism for a change.


5 posted on 06/03/2021 11:42:55 AM PDT by PGR88
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Why are only things that only conservatives have already known about as general knowledge for months or years reported as “bombshells”?


6 posted on 06/03/2021 11:44:22 AM PDT by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: CheshireTheCat

7 posted on 06/03/2021 11:47:27 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: CheshireTheCat

LOL, it would funny if it wasn’t so freaking serious!

0bama stopped all this type of research here after vials and stuff went missing from our own labs.

Then these crazy researchers/scientists did what any good company person might do...look for somewhere else to get the job done. Viola Wuhan.

Then the moratorium was lifted in 2017 (Trump era) and by 2019 there was a release/escape...

Follow the thinking...follow the logic...follow the money. Wuhan stood to lose $$$$$$.00 The money laundering chain broken. And China loses the “research.”

When China says it was our virus, they are not exactly wrong.


8 posted on 06/03/2021 11:49:47 AM PDT by EBH (Republics are only meant for a good and moral people. 1776-2021 May God Save Us.)
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To: CheshireTheCat

If we were funding and directing the research then was China correct in accusing the US for the virus?.....”can of worms”


9 posted on 06/03/2021 11:49:54 AM PDT by READINABLUESTATE (CENSORSHIP = VIOLENCE)
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To: CheshireTheCat

It’s brilliant.

You get your enemy to fund your bioweapon research, and then they can’t say anything bad when you use it.


10 posted on 06/03/2021 11:50:42 AM PDT by DannyTN (,)
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To: PGR88

Vanity Fair? Imagine that - an attempt at real journalism for a change.


11,000 word article that took months of research

The Lab-Leak Theory: Inside the Fight to Uncover COVID-19’s Origins
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/the-lab-leak-theory-inside-the-fight-to-uncover-covid-19s-origins


11 posted on 06/03/2021 11:51:01 AM PDT by janetjanet998
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To: CheshireTheCat
“I expected it from politicians. I didn’t expect it from science.”

A distinction without a difference.

We're talking federal dollars here. It's ALL politics.

12 posted on 06/03/2021 11:51:15 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("I see you did something -- why you so racist?")
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To: CheshireTheCat
Before Covid, I had a very high opinion of the CDC.

The CDC response to the Covid outbreak was totally bizarre and uncharacteristic of the agency.

It was negligent and so totally politicized and ineffective that it was sidelined and cut out of the loop of much of the covid response

13 posted on 06/03/2021 11:53:53 AM PDT by rdcbn1
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To: CheshireTheCat

of course the State Dept did.

They HATE Americans. Enough to “vaccinate” them to DEATH.

They HATE American children and sell them to butcher
through underground tunnels.

They HATE America and gave Uranium 1 to start WWIII,
and TRILLIONS to Iran and countries to FIX OUR election.


14 posted on 06/03/2021 11:56:12 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Tuitio Fidei et Obsequium Pauperum)
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To: Travis McGee

There it is


15 posted on 06/03/2021 12:00:18 PM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord and Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com)
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To: CheshireTheCat

So when is the media going to start using the word “coverup”?


16 posted on 06/03/2021 12:01:12 PM PDT by taxcontrol (You are entitled to your opinion, no matter how wrong it is.)
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To: CheshireTheCat

Is is a bomb shell if the MSM ignores it?


17 posted on 06/03/2021 12:01:21 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: DannyTN

That’s a good point.


18 posted on 06/03/2021 12:02:19 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (RIP my "teddy bear". )
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To: dsrtsage

“Bombshell” means nothing at all, like the words “racist” or “fascist”.


19 posted on 06/03/2021 12:02:41 PM PDT by Rightwing Conspiratr1
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To: CheshireTheCat

OMG, NNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

Next you’ll tell me that the DOJ and FBI are corrupt.

I can’t take anymore.


20 posted on 06/03/2021 12:05:13 PM PDT by Maris Crane
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