Definition of Pure Evil That You Funded
Segment # 134
As litigation against big Pharm and the government reveals more censored information, the picture of Covid culpability becomes clear. It appears now the government was aware of Covid, its origin, and the limitations of the vaccine which we funded. And yes through intermediaries our government funded some of this research and is consequently responsible for thousands and thousands of the deaths of American citizens. It is not over and far more will come out over the coming months and years. The moment transcends politics.. this current administration is pure evil.
A House subcommittee on Tuesday subpoenaed a former senior adviser to Dr. Anthony Fauci for conversations about COVID-19 origins exchanged over his private email account in violation of federal record-keeping laws.
The U.S. House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic demanded Dr. David Morens turn to produce “all documents and communications” regarding the Wuhan lab and EcoHealth Alliance or the origins of COVID-19, between Nov. 1, 2019 and the present between Morens and 36 others, including EcoHealth President Peter Daszak, Fauci and former National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins, former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield, World Health Organization (WHO) chief scientist Jeremy Farrar, Kristian Andersen, Ph.D. and Dr. W. Ian Lipkin (co-authors of the “Proximal Origin” paper), Wuhan lab senior scientist Shi Zhengli and Peter Hotez, M.D., Ph.D.
Morens has until April 30 to produce the documents, according to the subpoena.
The subpoena followed email confirmation of whistleblower allegations that Morens purposefully evaded federal transparency laws like the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in concealing email conversations about the pandemic’s origins.
Subcommittee Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio), in a statement on the subpoena and potential federal records violation, said:
“Dr. David Morens purposefully evaded FOIA laws to give his ‘best-friend’ EcoHealth Alliance President Dr. Peter Daszak non-public, internal information that had the potential to undermine the operations of the United States government. This is not only highly concerning, but it is also likely illegal.
“Dr. Morens must be held accountable for any abuse of power and his blatant disregard for the law.”
The chairman also noted that this “pattern of abusing federal power appears to stretch beyond Dr. Morens, Dr. Daszak, or NIH,” and called the subpoena “an important effort to ensure that federal health officials never again feel empowered to duck accountability to the American people and willfully undermine our elected government.”
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‘I will delete anything I don’t want to see in the New York Times’
Morens, who will testify before the subcommittee at a public hearing later this year, has been at the center of controversy since June 2023 for using his private email to communicate with Daszak.
In those emails, Morens wrote, “I always try to communicate over gmail because my NIH email is FOIA’d constantly” and “I will delete anything I don’t want to see in the New York Times.”
EcoHealth Alliance, a nonprofit organization, has been accused of using U.S. taxpayer dollars to fund gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China.
New evidence provided by the whistleblower alleges Morens engaged in further attempts to subvert transparency laws by sending emails from his personal Gmail account not only to Daszak but to Dr. Gerald Keusch, associate director of the National Emerging Infectious Disease Laboratories at Boston University, discussing matters related to COVID-19 origins, according to an April 11 subcommittee press release.
In one of the emails sent to Daszak and Keusch on July 12, 2020, Morens inquired about the International Society for Infectious Diseases (ISID), which authored an email with a subject line that read, “COVID-19 update (312): China, SARS-CoV2 origin, animal reservoir, WHO mission.”
ISID’s email raised concerns about a possible cover-up of the virus’s origins, mentioning Daszak, EcoHealth Alliance’s suspended grant and Wuhan lab researcher Shi, asking, “Is it possible that somebody at WIV [Wuhan Institute of Virology] became infected with the virus and then passed it on to others outside the lab?”
Daszak represented the U.S. in the WHO’s investigation into the origins of the virus in China.
In the letter to Morens accompanying the subpoena, Wenstrup expressed concern about the adequacy of Morens’ efforts to comply with the Select Subcommittee’s document requests. The letter states that it appears Morens personally conducted the search of his own email inbox and failed to produce documents that the subcommittee knows are in his custody, including some explicitly mentioned in the June 29, 2023, letter.
The letter also reveals that subcommittee staff and Morens’ counsel had attempted to reach an accommodation regarding a more robust search and production of documents, but after Morens’ transcribed interview, he “abruptly ceased attempting to reach an agreement with the Select Subcommittee.”
Wenstrup also sent a letter to Keusch on April 11 requesting he produce any documents and communication related to correspondence with Morens, Daszak, the Wuhan lab and other individuals and entities with knowledge of and access to COVID-19 origins material.
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EcoHealth preemptively releases emails
EcoHealth Alliance released four tranches of email communications on April 12, claiming the emails demonstrate it was “appropriately communicating” about its NIH grant “that had been terminated unexpectedly and arbitrarily.”
However, the emails appear to confirm the whistleblower’s allegations against Morens, showing he provided non-public information to Daszak and offered insight into internal conversations at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), according to the subcommittee press release.
In one email, Morens appears to have disclosed Fauci’s efforts and provided Daszak with information about internal deliberations related to the suspension of the EcoHealth Alliance grant, writing, “Tony is now fully aware I think and is I am told involved in some sort of damage control.”
The emails also reveal Daszak agreeing to communicate with Morens via his personal Gmail account instead of his government email to discuss information related to COVID-19 and NIAID grants. Daszak wrote, “David — We’ll communicate with you via gmail from now on,” and added, “We have 15,000 samples in freezers in Wuhan.”
An EcoHealth Alliance spokesperson told the New York Post the emails show that “Dr. Daszak had been seeking advice on how to deal with this unprecedented situation from Dr. Morens.”
In one of the released emails dated April 26, 2020, Daszak told Morens about the potential loss of funding and its impact on research, stating:
“Right now, without this funding, US employees will become unemployed. Of course, that pales into insignificance against the potential loss of life if we consider the health benefits of 1) better prediction of future pandemics; 2) better vaccines & therapeutics that work against these viruses; & 3) continued access to 15 yrs of sample collection, data, and collaborative knowledge from our work with our Chinese colleagues.”
The NY Post noted that the NIH suspended the EcoHealth Alliance grant in 2020, a move deputy director Lawrence A. Tabak acknowledged in an October 2021 letter to Congress stating that EcoHealth had “failed to report” having created novel coronaviruses capable of binding to the ACE2 receptor in humanized mice.
in August 2022 NIH terminated EcoHealth’s grant, informing the organization that it had not complied with the terms and conditions attached to the funding while allowing for a potential renegotiation of the award in the future.
The organization also noted that “NIH did reinstate the grant in May 2023, with EcoHealth Alliance proposing a renegotiated work plan that removed any on-the-ground activities in China.”
Morens under investigation since June 2023
Morens has been under investigation since June 2023, when the subcommittee released emails suggesting he concealed COVID-19-related information.
Following these revelations, the NIH removed Morens from his position and placed him on administrative leave.
In October 2023, Wenstrup announced a subpoena for NIH records related to Morens’ potential federal records violation, as the NIH had conducted an internal investigation but refused to share relevant findings with Congress or the American people.
In November 2023, the Select Subcommittee conducted a transcribed interview with Daszak, who described Morens as his “mentor.”
In January 2024, Morens appeared for a transcribed interview with the subcommittee, during which he described Daszak as a close friend and denied deleting any COVID-19 origins records or forwarding any federal records to his Gmail account to avoid FOIA requests.
In Wenstrup’s letter to Morens on Monday, he noted that at Morens’ voluntary appearance before the subcommittee on Dec. 29, 2023, for a transcribed interview, his “fulsome testimony was blocked by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.”
Fifteen agencies were aware of controversial EcoHealth coronavirus research, Rand Paul says
April 9, 2024 4:44 pm
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said that 15 federal agencies were aware of a proposed project from 2018 that would have allowed virus research organization EcoHealth Alliance to genetically engineer a virus similar to SARS-CoV-2, sparking concerns about the extent to which the Trump administration should have been aware of the risks of research into dangerous viruses before the start of the COVID pandemic.
The project ultimately was not funded, but EcoHealth Alliance-funded research in Wuhan, China, has been at the center of speculation on the part of congressional investigators about the origins of the coronavirus.
“At least 15 federal agencies knew from the beginning of the pandemic that EcoHealth Alliance and the Wuhan Institute of Virology were seeking federal funding in 2018 to create a virus genetically very similar if not identical to COVID-19,” Paul said on Tuesday. “Disturbingly, not one of these 15 agencies spoke up to warn us that the Wuhan Institute of Virology had been pitching this research.”
Documents revealed by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, of which Paul is the top Republican member, indicate that several agencies, including the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and the Department of Homeland Security, were aware of EcoHealth’s hope to create in China what Paul calls “a novel chimeric virus” with pandemic potential.
EcoHealth Alliance and the DEFUSE project
EcoHealth, a research nonprofit organization with the goal of preventing pandemics, has played a central role in the congressional investigation into the origins of COVID because of the grant funding the organization receives from the National Institutes of Health and other government agencies.
Since 2021, Paul has drawn attention to a 2018 grant proposal from EcoHealth to the Department of Defense under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA. The research proposal, referred to as the DEFUSE project, would have been conducted at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.
House Republicans recently uncovered information indicating that EcoHealth President Peter Daszak may have misled DARPA as to how much of the research would have been done in the United States rather than China in order to ensure that the DOD was “comfortable with [the] team.”
If the project had been funded by DARPA, the research would have involved manipulation of the spike proteins on various viruses related to SARS-CoV, which would have subsequently been injected into “humanized mice to assess [the modified viruses’] capability to cause SARS-like disease.”
Paul said that the DEFUSE project would have specifically inserted a furin cleavage site onto a coronavirus, a key feature of SARS-CoV-2 that makes it easily transmissible among humans.
The DARPA “PREEMPT Proposers Day”
Paul announced first in an opinion piece on Tuesday that he had received documentation from the Biden administration that key agencies in public health and national security were made aware of the DEFUSE project at an event hosted by DARPA before the outbreak of the pandemic.
Because the DEFUSE project was submitted to the DARPA under the PREventing EMerging Pathogenic Threats, or PREEMPT, program, EcoHealth and the WIV were invited to participate in the so-called PREEMPT Proposers Day.
“Under duress, the administration finally released documents that show that the DEFUSE project was pitched to at least 15 agencies in January 2018,” Paul said.
According to Paul, this means that these agencies “knew from the beginning of the pandemic” about the project, including the NIH and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases under the leadership of then-Director Anthony Fauci.
“Did NIAID warn us? Did Anthony Fauci warn us? No! All lips remained sealed,” Paul wrote in his op-ed.
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Daszak participated in a closed-door transcribed interview session with the House Oversight and Energy and Commerce committees in November.
Discrepancies between Daszak’s testimony and documents about the DEFUSE project uncovered via Freedom of Information Act requests prompted the committees to schedule a public hearing to question Daszak about the project.
Daszak is slated to appear for public testimony on May 1.
When asked about Paul’s revelation, a spokesperson for the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic told the Washington Examiner that members will be likely asking Daszak about the degree of federal knowledge about the DEFUSE project outside of DARPA.
“Dr. Peter Daszak has many questions to answer when he appears before the Select Subcommittee in May,” said the subcommittee spokesperson. “The American people deserve a full transparent investigation into the relationship between EcoHealth Alliance and the Wuhan Institute of Virology, including any funding federal agencies reviewed and granted prior to the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.”
EcoHealth Alliance denies any role in COVID-19
A spokesperson for EcoHealth said in a statement that Paul’s opinion piece is full of “several unfounded and false claims.”
“EcoHealth Alliance did submit a proposal for a project named DEFUSE to DARPA for funding, but the agency declined to select the project for support and the proposed research was never done,” the spokesperson said in a statement.
The spokesperson maintained that EcoHealth did not pursue funding from any other federal agency for the DEFUSE project.
In response to a different opinion piece from Paul published in February related to dangerous pathogen research, the EcoHealth spokesperson previously told the Washington Examiner that the research conducted at the WIV had nothing to do with SARS-CoV-2.
“The fact is that the bat coronavirus research conducted by EcoHealth Alliance and the Wuhan Institute of Virology could not have started the COVID-19 pandemic,” the spokesperson said.
The spokesperson also said that if the DEFUSE project had been approved by DARPA, it would have been carefully monitored by the DOD.
