The COVID sequence is a fingerprint from a crime scene and these scientists involved in a coverup know it….”some of the features (potentially) look engineered….. [and are] inconsistent with expectations from evolutionary theory”
What happened in Wuhan and at its partner labs run by Baric and Linfa Wang in 2019 with bioengineering is critical. Did they insert Furin cleavage sites ala Project Defuse? Bet they did.
Fauci and Morens engaged in a conspiracy to cover up. 923. 18 U.S.C. § 371—Conspiracy to Defraud the United States
The general conspiracy statute, 18 U.S.C. § 371, creates an offense "[i]f two or more persons conspire either to commit any offense against the United States, or to
The reality is that of course the US and our allies and partners are more than capable of getting to the bottom of COVID origins even without Chinese cooperation. There remains a bizarre lack of will and insufficient resources and authorities put behind an investigation effort.
More from the Judicial Watch FOIA of NIAID. Mice were infected with 4 strains of SARSr-CoVs with different S protein, including the full-length recombinant virus of SARSr-CoV WIV1 and three chimeric viruses with the backbone of WIV1 and S proteins of SHC014, WIV16 and Rs4231
A virus construct with a totally aberrational FCS that can kill 20M people, injure or impair the lives hundreds of millions, and set back our economies by more than the Great Depression should be judged optimal. Once out of the lab this bioengineered virus was weaponized.
This is pure and simple BS. Give a group of us full access to intel, law enforcement and any all other data via subpoena plus a lot of money for defectors and source recruitment and we’d fill in any remaining gaps. There aren’t that many actually.
Lying for a living—remember Fauci got paid a second salary for being in charge of national biodefense. He defended against BIO-NOTHING and covered up his direct interactions with Baric and other parties to a bio crime against humanity .
Dr. Fauci lied under oath in his deposition about having met Ralph Baric.
In mid-February 2020, Ralph Baric was literally in Fauci's office, discussing chimeric virus research.
During the same period in which "Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2 was being constructed.
@RandPaul
I don’t know what the bio-engineered chimeras tested against the WIV-1 baseline were designed to do and whether a Furin Cleavage site was inserted ala Project Defuse. We now know they had very high fatality rates in humanized mice. Was one of the chimeras COV-19? Thoughts?
This is our second FOIA lawsuit against the NIH regarding the origins of Covid-19…Even though we filed the (first) FOIA request on July 10, 2020, the NIH has yet to provide us with a single document it has not previously released.
The 2020 "Proximal Origin" paper falsely claimed science showed COVID-19 did not have a lab origin. Newly released messages from the authors show they did not believe the conclusions of the paper and show the paper is the product of scientific fraud and scientific misconduct.
Professor Robert Garry to Fauci circa Feb 2, 2020. Can anyone trust Fauci and his advisors given this obvious coverup—lab leak of a bioengineered COV is not a conspiracy theory. The only conspiracy is these scientists coverup to cover their own research that helped Wuhan.
World War III Will Be Fought With Viruses by Richard A. Muller— a typically brilliant piece by my dear friend and scientific legend, Professor Rich Muller from Berkeley.
Absolutely lawyered up—for a good reason. We had USG biologists from our most sensitive labs telling us the exact opposite regarding bioengineering of COVID. Baric claims to have made a fully synthetic virus over a weekend. We had solid intel and open source behind our analysis
Kristian Andersen may be a virologist but this reads like it was written by a lawyer.
An overworked associate somewhere wants us to believe there is a big difference between "comments about" or "comments on."
Lame hairsplitting does not change the fact that Tony Fauci and
Artificially modifying viruses with the goal of making them able to infect mouse models of humans remains bonkers. The fact that these humanized mice dropped dead at high rates — and quickly —and no alarms went off is insane. These deadly chimeras were a Gain of dysfunction.
Especially when Francis Collins is the President’s Science Advisor…..A lot is missing from the supposed declassification that we identified in our State Department investigation. Other critical information is deliberately distorted or downplayed in manner that reeks of coverup.
What bad actors can learn from
#OriginOfCovid
is that even if you're genetically engineering and enhancing pathogens - using techniques established years ago which leave no trace - a large number of experts and intel agencies will assess no genetic engineering (w low confidence).
Our analysis in the Pompeo State Department was that the CCP saw narco warfare with the US and Canada as a means of undermining society and state in the US and Canada. The cartel leaders agreed to be part given the profits were ridiculous and a CCP coordinated money laundering
Why has Europe been spared Canada's fentanyl disaster?
The death toll from
#fentanyl
in Europe is 'only' 200 per year.
A look at what is happening on the other side of the Atlantic that's helped avoid this scourge, esp. as it's hit B.C.
My latest.
Nicholas Wade puts together the public pieces of the COVID coverup. Hopefully, so much more will emerge in the months ahead from the FOIAs, lawsuits, and whistle blowers.
And when I asked Francis Collins Chief of Staff and Legislative Director for their COVID origins analysis and supporting data in the early fall of 2020, guess what, they sent us the Proximal Origins paper as well. I kid you not. I’m you’ll get that in FOIA’s eventually
"We'll never know."
Pathetic.
So much self-serving spin in this write-up of what the intelligence community wants you to believe about the origins of COVID.
Very important. The WIV—as with many labs following from Fouchier, Baric, and others—have been bioengineering viruses for a long time. The idea raised by Andersen as proof that the FCS is “crappy” and suboptimal was rejected by our bioengineering experts.
Never tell Fouchier that he cannot create something in his lab!
"I do not understand Andrew's argument. Molecular biologists like myself can generate perfect copies of viruses without leaving a trace."
Why has Daszak not been subpoenaed and forced to testify under oath? That should be the first thing for the House oversight committees. Ralph Baric under the Congressional microscope, too, under oath. I’d demand the same from Linfa Wang, even though he is not AMCIT. Crazy.
So they were creating deadly bio-engineered humanized transgenic mice in a BSL-2 environment, which Professor Ebright compares to the safety conditions of a dentist’s office. Recipe for biological disaster. What if the mouse bit its keeper?
This was a manifestation of “intelligence fraud.” INR’s expert who arranged for Andersen to brief, we later learned, also was a consultant to the WHO. I can’t make this crap up.
New email shows Kristian Andersen was among the virologists who briefed the intelligence community about COVID's origins in early 2020, when evidence was still relatively fresh.
Absolutely. It would have been great if their Slack conversation had been used to cross examine the two of them yesterday. I don’t understand why the Committee’s excellent report wasn’t made the center of the inquiry since it reveals lies, lies, and more lies in a coverup
Now that we all know Proximal Origin is untrue, certainly that the authors themselves didn’t believe it…
We can recognize the authors’ motivated reasoning in their later works (Worobey, Pekar).
… and we can revisit Fauci testifying NIAID didn’t fund GoF research in the WIV.
This just adds to the outrage. Despite having served the USG many times in a variety of capacities over the last 34 years, I never encountered the “deep State” until our COVID investigation.
It’s worse than that. When Trump defunded EcoHealth (a program that not only wasn’t working but actually created death and destruction), federal government bureaucrats (Fauci’s office) decided that Trump “stole” the money and gave EcoHealth twice as much as Trump had taken away.
Hats off to Gary Ruskin and Emily Kopp for being intrepid, determined, and truly excellent investigators into COVID origins. Right to Know are doing amazing work.
@garyruskin
@emilyakopp
Redacted tells us that they have a great deal to hide…. This why there needs to be a RICO lawsuit filed against this medical mafia conspiracy to cover up
Outstanding work by Senator Marshall and his super investigator, Diane Cutler. EcoHealth leadership may end up in chains if this is true. It adds a new criminal angle to the charges against them for contributing to COV19’s creation and scientific coverup.
We must know the cause of the COVID-19 pandemic that took the lives of more than 1.1 million Americans and our investigation will continue to reveal the truth. In order to prevent future pandemics, all mankind deserves to know who and what is responsible for this horrific virus.
China money laundering in the US (and around the world) is at the center of the fentanyl trafficking from the Mexican cartels. It’s basically out of control, although DEA is starting to accelerate its disruptive efforts finally. I was honored to advise and support DEA Project
Mousavi had the blood of hundreds of Americans on his hands since he played a key role in the financing and logical supply of Iranian backed special groups in Iraq involved in explosively formed projectile attacks. About time for his erasure.
Bongino is right. Daszak is a purveyor of bio WMD to his ChiComm partners. How the US government funded this work, let alone allowed it, is inexplicable, inexcusable, and borderline criminal. Thanks Dr. Fauci.
Seems like coverup week. Or the week of the grossly incompetent and/or irresponsible. This is a bigger intelligence failure than 9-11 and Pearl Harbor combined.
Let’s not forget the FBI collects evidence, not “just intelligence” and has no US persons restrictions unlike the rest of the “Community.”
FBI director says COVID pandemic 'most likely' originated from Chinese lab
If the goal was to create a pandemic pathogen that stealthily can kill millions of people then I beg to severely differ with critics. That is a different metric of “fitness” and “optimality.” In the shadow war with Communist China it’s a different world from scientific theory.
When Fauci’s lips are moving he is lying. BUT, the Chi-Comms created COVID 19, not Fauci, Baric, and other US, French, UK, Australian researchers whose hubris and naïveté demonstrate their arrogance and stupidity but not direct complicity. I have been involved in work against
This is old news but still relevant. Since when did DTRA become the Defense Threat CONDUCTION Agency? Contributing actions of USG Departments and agencies need to be examined…..Pentagon gave millions to EcoHealth Alliance for weapons research program
Hearings | Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee . This will be an important hearing. High to review what results gain of function in virology research, especially with the PRC, has produced other than a pandemic and millions dead….
A credible investigation is totally doable. Its absence prolongs the controversy and conflict.
This is not fair to anyone, not the scientists suspected of causing the pandemic, not the scientists who defended them, and not the scientists who suspect a lab leak caused Covid-19.
From relatively early on in our State Department investigation we had definite and specific reasons to be concerned about a synthetic origin of COVID including related to vaccine development.
The Story of the Decade: New documents strengthen—perhaps conclusively—the lab-leak hypothesis of Covid-19’s origins. By Nicholas Wade, former longtime NYTimes science journalist & editor.
In our FOI litigation against
@UNC
for about 50,000 pages — mostly of Ralph Baric documents — possibly related to the origin of Covid-19, today we and UNC sent memos to the special master/referee about how he should interpret the relevant North Carolina public records statutes.
It's completely incomprehensible that the United States took a $14 trillion dollar hit from a lab made virus without even demanding reparations. Is not pissing off China really worth $14 trillion dollars?
Yet, when
@RandPaul
asked Dr. Fauci whether NIAID funded gain of function research in Wuhan, Dr. Fauci denied.
Even when politely asked to correct the record, Dr. Fauci became combative and maintained his denial.
Dr. Fauci lied under oath. A system of laws prosecutes perjurers.
SCHC014, WIV16, and Rs4231 are relatively distant from SARS-CoV-2 (~20-25% divergence) and relatively close to SARS-CoV-1. The unknown question is whether Wuhan Institute of Virology was doing similar experiments on other undisclosed CoV that were more similar to SARS-CoV-2.
Awesome podcast from White Coat Waste, Sharri, and CMR on the importance of deep COVID investigation today. This multinational COVERUP is becoming the global Watergate of public health.
If first people to fall sick in China with COVID apparently were the team working under Dr. Shi to bioengineer advanced COVID variants with novel design features to enhance transmissibility that is hardly a coincidence impertinent to the IC. Seriously?
“He is not only a flight risk but he is an asset,” Crown says arguing to revoke bail and seek 20 year sentence, says information Ortis has in his mind is a danger to Canada
Not only was it feasible to create COVID with synthetic biology/bioengineering, as Baric note it could be done on the “cheap.” And, as Baric has said elsewhere, bioengineered COVID could be invisible including by employing his patented “No see em” approach.
Now that Fauci came out and said to the Senate that NIAID relied on the ‘good scientists in Wuhan’ to say if the gain of function restrictions were being breached, it is time that NIAID’s chronic lack of oversight on funding to the Commies be investigated.
“that most early symptomatic cases were linked to Huanan Market—specifically to the western section (1) where raccoon dogs were caged (2)— provides strong evidence of a live-animal market origin of the pandemic.” Strong evidence? What evidence?
Paul Thacker’s interview with Bob Redfield is essential reading on COV origins and USG/UK policy as well as the PRC’s epochally murderous behavior. CDC was supposed to be in charge of pandemic response, not NIAID…..Instead we had a a disgraceful COVID coverup.
Our investigation has unearthed emails revealing that Dr. Fauci colluded with scientists to downplay the Wuhan lab leak theory.
And now we know he withheld critical information from the CDC director.
Why is Dr. Fauci afraid of following the science?
Americans need answers.
We can penetrate the North Korean and Iranian nuclear programs, the AQ Khan network, hunt down Bin Ladin, Hezbollah and Iranian terrorist leaders, and predict the Russian invasion of Ukraine months in advance but we can’t ascertain the origin of COVID?
Paying EcoHealth off to shift its research $$ from Wuhan and add many more for SE Asia (where China asserts the pandemic pathogen emanated) allows for the coverup to continue. No more NIAID demands to answer what happened in Wuhan.
"While we might be relieved that this pandemic is in the rearview mirror, the possibility that it was caused by overly zealous researchers still receiving funding to do the same types of work should give us pause."
The world deserves a thorough review of the pandemic. Congress must set up a covid-19 commission. Hope all of America can get behind this critical piece of legislation. We are supporting
@HudsonInstitute
@thackerpd
What ever happened to declassifying the COVID intelligence? That’s an even bigger outrage since the President signed a law and NOTHING was produced.
Another awesome
@KatherineEban
@VanityFair
article on the incredibly lax attitude of NIAID versus repeated DOE warnings on WIV PLA BW related research well beyond COVs including Ebola. Bio WWIII will break out without a new BWC containing GOF.
Don’t underestimate animal disposal mismanagement, waste mismanagement, failed vaccine work (pre-outbreak of COV19), and lapse lab safety as part of a bio-Chernobyl. Shi told the world her lab did research on bat COVIDs BSL-2/3 because they couldn’t spread to humans. Shi lied.
Someone can just read the declassified headers and make their own assessment about PLA and Biological weapons/ Dual Use Research of Concern at WIV and associated labs, AMMS, and institutes.
I am grateful to John Roberts for having me on today to discuss Fauci’s COVID complicity and coverup in light of today’s hearing. It’s almost at the point when Fauci’s lips are moving he is lying.
@johnrobertsFox
@HudsonInstitute
Worobey’s global headline grabbing Science paper that puts the natural origins hypothesis for COV19 back to the top is a total nothing burger—three pages of anecdotal drivel.
At a Congressional hearing this week virologists Robert Garry and Kristian Andersen said that the furin cleavage site in COVID could not be engineered because it was "suboptimal."
They even said the furin cleavage site that ignited a global pandemic was "crap."
But apparently
It’s a travesty and a tragedy. Seriously a fifth grader could investigate the Watergate of Medicine, I don’t understand how or why Congress has become complicit in the COVID coverup.
Can some explain to me like I'm a 5th grader:
Why have we not seen Dr. Morens' emails in which he conducted official NIH/NIAID business via gmail?
Why have we not heard from Ralph Baric?
Why aren't there criminal investigations into the origins of SARS-CoV-2?
As a lead participant I can assure that Dr. Quay had a highly regarded partner on the stats side from a major university. We also checked his math. This discussion was a week before we released the declassified fact sheet. Baric’s reaction to some hints about its contents caused
Baric's comments showed that he failed to have a high school AP-level understanding of statistics.
And for all the criticism I received during the meeting and since about a lack of experience in the analyses I was conducting, NO ONE has ever acknowledged that I gave attribution
One million dead Americans and counting. Zero accountability. Massive lack of transparency. Government coverups in Washington and Beijing.
@HudsonInstitute
we are determined to develop policy proposals to produce transparency, and accountability for the origins of COVID-19
So, why don’t my many Democrat friends want to know? Actually some of them really do they are just mostly gun shy (Jamie Metzl is notable exception). We need a bipartisan Congressional investigation. An orchestrated coverup is a Federal crime...
I’m assured by a noted biologist that none of the COVs described in the EcoHealth report could be the predecessor of COV 19. But, rest assured, there was a lot more virological research underway at WIV than what has been reported.
Testing Predictions of CoV Inter-Species Transmission 3.1 In vivo infection of Human ACE2 (hACE2) expressing mice with SARSr-CoV S protein variants In Year 5, we continued with in vivo infection experiments of diverse bat SARSr-CoVs on transgenic mice expressing human ACE2.
They certainly could be barred from future grants for engaging in fraudulent analysis — it a Federally funded conspiracy whether DOJ would ever indict them or not
"W(w)e do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible."
At the time of the above published statement the authors DID believe a laboratory-based scenario was plausible or even likely, based on their private, written exchanges.
Legal question: if a
The subpoenas are long overdue. As are the contempt of Congress proceedings. Send the subpoenas, start the contempt of Congress proceedings, and, in the interim, invoke the Holman rule to block salary and benefits payments to officials obstructing investigation.
Want a glimpse on how we targeted the biggest narco Terrorist trafficking and laundering scheme in history? It was true interagency strategy and operations—until we ran until diplomatic walls over the JCPOA.
"[D]ocuments released..prior to..hearing included Slack-channel communications among..Proximal Origin authors..[I]n the..Slack thread, Andersen wrote that 'the main issue is that accidental release is in fact highly likely—it’s not some fringe theory.'"
Now people can see a glimpse of what our COVID investigative and policy team at State had to deal with. It was and is, frankly, embarrassing given the gravity of the situation for the future of the world, then and now….
"The U.S. intelligence community and health officials opposed publishing information about the Wuhan Institute of Virology because it could raise questions about research and labs supported by the U.S..."
Via
@emilyakopp
@USRightToKnow
If you are trying to bio engineer something that looks natural but still spreads and infects “super naturally” you would not use an easily detected standard recognized insertion approach. So what WIV was working on was stealthy and super effective based on the pandemic’s results.
The NGOs have gathered enough probative documents from the FOIAs for the House to hold major hearings on the COVID coverup. These three plus Anderson, Garry, and Holmes should have been the first witnesses called. Time for action. Time for a full day hearing.
@HudsonInstitute
Why has Daszak not been subpoenaed and forced to testify under oath? That should be the first thing for the House oversight committees. Ralph Baric under the Congressional microscope, too, under oath. I’d demand the same from Linfa Wang, even though he is not AMCIT. Crazy.
Wuhan lab had 'open license' to do gain of function research: Dr. Quay |
It’s good that the broader conspiracy of GOF lab research coordinated by the WIV and NIH involving Wuhan U, Wuhan CDC, and other labs is getting due attention.
Democrats Block Sen. Marshall’s Bills to Halt Risky Gain-of-Function Res... via
@YouTube
. Great speech. Fauci who years ago was concerned about a lab accident involving gain of function as a potential pandemic source!
Andersen appeared largely unmoved until after his initial correspondence with Nature Medicine on the article per the unredacted SLACK messages. There is NO apparent empirical basis for their analytical shift. The House Subcommittee should have hammered Andersen and Garry on this.
A great point
All we’ve wanted to know from public questions, private conversations, FOIAs and subpoenas is:
“What made Andersen & Holmes change their mind?”
Something on the Feb 1 call or other unreported communications made them change their minds.
Events - Virtual Event | Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19 - December - 2021 - Hudson Institute. Please tune in. Alina and Matt are brilliant and truly insightful. Many thanks.
This should have been published in the New York Times. But it is doubtful they would have allowed it into print. It is important, urgent, and deadly on point. The Chinese PLA remains out of control in their creation of potential pandemic pathogens that could act and should be
Marc Siegel and Robert Redfield:
"We…call for a full moratorium on…gain-of-function research, where viruses are manipulated to test their potential. With the current state of science…we can glean all the information we need without the inherent risk."
“The central pillar of Proximal Origin’s argument is that science would find a furin cleavage site in a related coronavirus. This is a clear assumption with no proof or evidence. Further, there still has not been a furin cleavage site discovered in sarbecoviruses.”