Posted on 06/03/2021 6:04:53 AM PDT by Kaslin
The treasure trove of Anthony Fauci's emails this week peels back the curtain on a government bureaucrat operating as a government bureaucrat.
A treasure trove of emails from National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director Dr. Anthony Fauci’s were made public this week by BuzzFeed News after a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) opened the inbox of the nation’s face of the pandemic and ensuing institutional decay.
More than 3,200 pages dated from January to June 2020 reveal a portrait of a government bureaucrat lifted up as a god-like figure in the legacy media who did what most government bureaucrats do: operate in their own self-interest no matter the stakes.
On Tuesday, the Washington Post published its findings from a smaller series of emails obtained through a separate FOIA request. It painted the most predictable narrative one could expect from the pinnacle paper of Trump resistance: the heroic image of an 80-year-old physician steering the nation through a once-in-a-generation pathogen in the apparent absence of presidential leadership. The Post, however, kept its retrieved emails concealed.
BuzzFeed, on the other hand, published all 3,324 documents. Those depict an arrogant, dismissive physician who from the very start began to cover for his potential role in the lab leak theory, going as far as to brand himself the most credible voice in the world on COVID to do so.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) enjoyed an 18-month head start to cover the origin of the novel Wuhan coronavirus after American media, in cahoots with Fauci, vilified theories alleging COVID-19 emerged from a lab in Wuhan.
New reporting from the Wall Street Journal last month, however, offered new life to the lab-leak theory after it narrated the story of three researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) who sought hospital care with COVID-like symptoms. While the CCP claims the first documented COVID case was Dec. 8, 2019, the Wall Street Journal wrote researchers fell sick several weeks earlier in November.
According to a fact sheet from the Trump State Department and corroborated by officials within the Biden administration, the lab was at the time collaborating with the Chinese military while it conducted high-risk “gain-of-function” research into bat coronaviruses. In such research, scientists extract viruses from the wild and engineer them to infect humans to study potential therapeutics, including vaccines. This form of research is deemed so dangerous the U.S. government banned its funding between 2014 and 2017 to create guidelines within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to provide further review of such grant proposals.
The lab in Wuhan, however, operated with a $600,000 five-year annual grant of taxpayer dollars from Fauci’s NIAID to study bat coronaviruses during that time with money funneled through EcoHealth Alliance run by Dr. Peter Daszak. Up until two weeks ago, Fauci, who in 2012 defended gain-of-function research as worth its risk of a deadly pandemic, threw cold water on the lab theory and continued to play up the theory COVID-19 emerged from natural transmission from bat to humans.
Now, as more evidence emerges pointing to the Wuhan lab as the pandemic culprit, Fauci conceded he is “not convinced” the virus developed naturally. In the early days of the pandemic however, emails show credible experts brought to Fauci evidence and concerns COVID-19 came from the Chinese lab. Fauci brushed them off.
On Feb. 21, 2020, an associate professor at the Weill Cornell Medical College wrote to Fauci “we think that there is a possibility that the virus was released from a lab in Wuhan, the biotech area of China.” Fauci merely forwarded the correspondence to a colleague with “please handle.”
Two months later, Fauci’s response to an email from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director with the subject line “conspiracy gains momentum” with a link to an article about Fox News’ Bret Baier raising the lab-leak theory as plausible remains redacted.
Scandal?
As in the Holocaust was a Scandal?
The guy is literally responsible for millions of deaths globally.
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If this major blockbuster story is purposefully omitted from being reported by corrupt news organizations like Gayle King’s CBS This Morning, did it really happen? Yes it did, but the bias by omission is trying to cover it up. This is why the news is corrupt.
I like the author’s name: Tristan Justice.
Ivermectin results in India are astounding and withheld from America.
NO real physician puts HIV on a virus to patent it.
FauXi gets the Mengele Award for murder.
Which he deserves.
fauci is a mass murderer
Why did US taxpayer money go to a virus lab in China closely connected to the Chinese military? It is suspicious that this money was filtered through a US non profit who got the grant money and then subbed it out to China. Fauci was in charge and either knew the Chinese lab was getting this money or should have known the money was being subbed out. The emails suggest that he did in fact know the Chinese lab was getting the money. Fauci should be fired or subject to a criminal investigation for funneling government money to a foreign military agency. However, he will get a golden parachute from Biden and never face any criminal charges.
In any other circumstance, this would be referred to as "laundering" the money.
Silly wabbit. There is no money in Ivermectin!
Of course rising to bureaucratic power in giverment is often a simple matter of longevity. Stay long enough and you will be promoted as the last and most senior man standing.
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