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Probe sought in Trump administration's ouster of scientist
baytownsun.com ^ | 4/23/20 | Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar

Posted on 04/24/2020 1:56:56 AM PDT by a little elbow grease

WASHINGTON (AP) — Calls mounted Thursday for an investigation into the ouster of a senior government scientist who says he's being punished for opposing widespread use of an unproven drug President Donald Trump touted as a remedy for COVID-19.

Rick Bright, former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, says he was summarily removed from his job earlier this week and reassigned to a lesser role because he resisted political pressure to allow widespread use of hydroxychloroquine, a malaria drug favored by Trump.

On Thursday, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, D-N.J., joined in calling for an investigation by the Health and Human Services inspector general.

"Removing Dr. Bright in the midst of a pandemic would raise serious concerns under any circumstances, but his allegations that political considerations influenced this decision heighten those concerns and demand full accountability,” Pallone said. The inspector general's office had no immediate response.

Bright is seeking to be reinstated as head of the research agency, said his lawyers Debra Katz and Lisa Banks. A performance review shows he received a top rating.

(Excerpt) Read more at baytownsun.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: coronavirus; fakedoctor; notadoctor; phoneydoctor; rat; remedy; resumefraud; whistleblower
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To: a little elbow grease

Looking forward to the investigation

Poitico reporter Dan Diamond within 24 hours found that this bureaucrat was rumored for removal last year because he is an incompetent insubordinate jackass.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/it-sure-looks-like-the-new-york-times-got-played-by-the-former-hhs-expert-who-says-his-firing-was-retaliation

The kind of federal employee it is impossible to fire, so they get transferred, like this guy


41 posted on 04/24/2020 5:35:33 AM PDT by silverleaf (President Trump: Do not trust China. China is asshoe!)
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To: wastoute
He apparently wasn't fired:

Rick Bright, former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, says he was summarily removed from his job earlier this week and reassigned to a lesser role because he resisted political pressure to allow widespread use of hydroxychloroquine, a malaria drug favored by Trump.

42 posted on 04/24/2020 5:41:48 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: a little elbow grease

Trump never heard of the guy. Neither did anyone else in the room.


43 posted on 04/24/2020 5:51:09 AM PDT by McGruff (Freedom is contagious.)
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To: a little elbow grease

This ‘expert’ was placed in his job by Obama on November 16, 2016 - a week AFTER he knew Trump would be the next president.

Those types of personnel moves need to be ILLEGAL.


44 posted on 04/24/2020 5:55:54 AM PDT by BobL
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To: wastoute

“President Donald Trump touted as a remedy for COVID-19.”

Trump has never, and I hope won’t ever, openly say a drug being tested is a remedy for anything. That is a lie established by the media to be used by the socialists.

rwood


45 posted on 04/24/2020 8:26:11 AM PDT by Redwood71
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To: SES1066

Yes........... Soros included.


46 posted on 04/24/2020 10:09:07 AM PDT by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it unusual...)
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To: McGruff; enumerated; LS; bitt; thinden; JonPreston; Liz; Alberta's Child; semantic; iontheball; ...
"Trump never heard of the guy. Neither did anyone else in the room."

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Chauncey Gardiner


47 posted on 04/24/2020 10:13:51 AM PDT by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it unusual...)
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To: BobL; enumerated; LS; bitt; thinden; JonPreston; Liz; Alberta's Child; semantic; iontheball; ...
This ‘expert’ was placed in his job by Obama on November 16, 2016 - a week AFTER he knew Trump would be the next president.

Those types of personnel moves need to be ILLEGAL.

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Hell .. I don't get your drift ....

Just like John Brennan should have had daily enemas for five months and a day.

48 posted on 04/24/2020 10:21:32 AM PDT by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it unusual...)
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To: silverleaf
Poitico reporter Dan Diamond within 24 hours found that this bureaucrat was rumored for removal last year because he is an incompetent insubordinate jackass.

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Excellent sir.............. it is not the first time that you have made everything CLEAR.

49 posted on 04/24/2020 10:24:03 AM PDT by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it unusual...)
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To: a little elbow grease
Chauncey Gardiner

I like to watch.

50 posted on 04/24/2020 10:27:39 AM PDT by JonPreston
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To: pburgh01

Or “m’lady” from the neck beards.


51 posted on 04/24/2020 10:29:34 AM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: a little elbow grease; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; ...
Thanks a little elbow grease.

52 posted on 04/24/2020 10:54:40 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: a little elbow grease

har.

great movie


53 posted on 04/24/2020 12:10:15 PM PDT by thinden
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