Posted on 02/16/2022 11:02:44 AM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
The National Institutes of Health has repeatedly failed to comply with congressional requests for documents related to its involvement with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, instead forcing agency personnel to “shred notes and other documents” referencing the Chinese Communist Party-run lab and its work with the U.S. government during the Obama administration.
Members of the Republican House Committee on Oversight and Reform wrote a letter to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Director Xavier Becerra urging the release of the documents, which could prove highly relevant to the origins of COVID-19.
“Rather than be transparent with Committee Republicans, HHS and NIH have chosen to hide, obfuscate, and shield the truth,” argues the letter.
The letter reveals that an NIH advisor was “forced by NIH to shred notes and other documents pertaining to the WIV grants as early as 2014.” An email from an individual, whose name has been redacted, to a committee staff member on November 5th, 2021 revealed the following:
“I signed a confidentiality agreement in which I agreed not to discuss any grant with anyone except with other members of the study section, and – once the meeting was over – that I would destroy any notes that I had taken during the meeting (we did this by tossing them in shred box in the meeting room)).”
The letter outlines how, “to date, HHS and NIH have refused to produce any responsive documents or information.” The congressional committee requested documents from former NIH Director Francis Collins surrounding a 2014, Obama-era grant awarded from Anthony Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to EcoHealth Alliance and the WIV in May and July of 2021.
Despite Republican committee staff repeatedly amending their requests, making them broader in scope and easier for the federal agency to fulfill, both federal agencies have refused to turn over any documents.
“Since our July 15, 2021, request invoking §2954, Republican Committee staff have provided the following accommodations to HHS and NIH: time extensions, reducing the scope of the request, prioritizing certain documents, and engaging in in camera review of certain documents. Throughout this time, Republican Committee staff made clear to HHS staff that Committee Republicans may, at a later date, request full, unredacted copies of the documents reviewed in camera and all other documents responsive to the Requests,” explains the letter.
Simple solution. Defund both agencies and not allow any employees on government payrolls again.
A good bureaucrat makes a copy of a document before he throws it away.
Seriously, I imagine most of the documents are also in electronic form with copies all over the place.
Let’s review what hasn’t been shreaded
14 days flatten curve
Safe and Secure
Debunked
Safe and effective
Unexpected
Sudden
Rare
protection is profound
Even IF we take the house back do you honestly THINK that our side would take this action of defunding them which absolutely NEEDS TO BE DONE!! We never elect anything but a bunch of pussies!!!
Criminal behavior, what else is new?
Dealing with crooks requires a search warrant so they don’t destroy the evidence 🤪
A federal bureaucrat simply shredding documents requested by congress is itself a felony.
If they can’t be transparent with our tax dollars, de-fund them and shut their a$$e$ down. I guarantee you we won’t miss them.
But Trump supposedly ripped up some papers and put them in the toilet and THAT’S something the Washington Establishment gets upset about.
I’d rather see a bunch of them taken on a helicopter ride and asked questions at 2000 feet.
IMO, that is equal to showing up at some old man’s home at 5AM with a squad of agents, machine guns, boats, and aircraft to arrest him. Not sure I want Fauci in the Helicopter or at the arrest site but either would suit me fine.
Not with McCarthy as speaker
Uhmmm.....that’s a felony.
Lock them up until they cough it up.
Demand a legal hold.
What’s the point of taking notes if you’re going to shred them at the end of the meeting?
Happens all the time as cleared counsel for several govt contractors. If I take any notes, I have to hand them to the security manager at the end of the meeting or put them in the safe.
Put them in a safe for who, when?
-PJ
“We never elect anything but a bunch of pussies!!!”
I suspect we haven’t elected ANYONE other than Trump in decades.
They install whomever they want, and TELL us that’s who won, except in the rare cases where the vote overwhelms the fraud.
Why do you suppose they don’t want us to see the report on the Dominion machines?
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