Posted on 04/01/2024 10:02:33 AM PDT by RandFan
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who sparred with top public health officials in heated hearings about Covid-19 and the government’s response to the pandemic, has found a Democrat to join him in investigating the virus’ origins.
And it’s not just any Democrat. It’s Gary Peters (D-Mich.), chair of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on which Paul is the ranking Republican.
The duo announced yesterday they are investigating where Covid came from, the high-risk research that Paul believes caused the pandemic, as well as broader “national security threats posed by high-risk biological research and technology.”
Why it matters: Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are concerned about risky research.
President Joe Biden, in his October executive order on artificial intelligence, tasked government agencies with laying the groundwork for new rules and requirements for how AI will be used in synthetic biology, the creation or modification of organisms.
The collaboration between Paul and Peters also means more scrutiny for government scientists. Earlier this month, the Homeland Security panel unanimously approved Paul’s bill to require government scientists to disclose royalties they receive from companies and make public the financial disclosure forms filed by members of federal scientific advisory committees.
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Rand Paul doing good work here...
I don’t trust Peters.
The why’s and wherefore’s of Covid - like the Stolen Election - is an open secret.
Everyone knows the details, but nothing will ever change what happened.
I totally understand
Rand says:
“This 1st ever government-wide probe of risky life sciences research will identify oversight gaps with the goal of preventing future pandemics.”
Amazing that politicians can periodically show signs of lucidity and concern for serious issues. Unfortunately they never actually accomplish anything.
Four years too late.
This should be interesting.
Peters to get red pilled...
Anybody remember “This is a piece of dung!”
Yep. First and foremost, what will be the result of the inquiry? Fines? Prison time? Public apologies? Nope. Zero. Nada. Nothing. It’s like a murder trial with a conviction but no sentence. Meaningless.
Worse than that, actually. Since any legitimate "inquiry" would lead back to the true origins of the work that resulted in the creation of the SAR-COV-2 virus -- which would implicated the U.S. military-intelligence community in the first instance and not the CCP -- there will be no such legitimate inquiry. Rand either knows this already or will come to be informed of this reality, and that'll be all she wrote.
What Rand and this Democrat are doing is nothing but a classic case of bipartisanship. A Republican and a Democrat working together to accomplish...
Well, to accomplish nothing at all. But it looks good on paper.
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