Fauci’s FOIA Follies Show ‘transparency’ in Washington Has Always Been a Fraud; Fauci Claims He was not ‘involved’ in NIH Grant for Wuhan Lab, Denies Gain-of-Function Research Occurred, and other C-Virus related stories
Fauci’s FOIA follies show ‘transparency’ in Washington has always been a fraud:
Republican congressional investigators are exposing brazen COVID cover-ups by the National Institutes for Health and top aides to Anthony Fauci.
Bureaucrats have dodged complying with the Freedom of Information Act — a law meant to ensure government transparency — by concealing official records, even intentionally misspelling words to thwart discovery of damning emails and texts.
This is hardly the first pandemic-related FOIA debacle.
In 2021, the Food and Drug Administration required only 108 days to grant full approval to Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine application — but claimed it would need 75 years to fulfill a FOIA request to disclose that same documentation.
A federal judge lambasted the agency in 2022 and ordered a much faster response.
But in fact, FOIA has been a farce for decades.
There’s a reason why cynical investigators refer to it as the “Freedom from Information Act.”
The Drug Enforcement Administration denied a FOIA request made by a man seeking details about criminals who had once kidnapped him “because he did not have a signed waiver from the men who had held him hostage,” the Washington Examiner reported in 2015.
In 2017, a federal judge slammed the FBI for claiming it needed 17 years to fulfill a FOIA request on its surveillance of antiwar activists in the 1960s.
The following year, the FBI deleted the names of Clark Kent and Lois Lane from a letter that made reference to the famous Superman characters — because disclosing them in a FOIA response would “constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.” —>READ MORE HERE
Fauci claims he was not ‘involved’ in NIH grant for Wuhan lab, denies gain-of-function research occurred:
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), told Congress he was not “involved” in a controversial grant to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) — and still denied that gain-of-function research occurred there, according to newly released congressional testimony.
The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic released transcripts Friday of a two-day interview with the ex-Biden White House COVID czar held in January, during which Fauci said “more than 100 times” that he “did not recall” information about the grant process, reasons for US pandemic restrictions and other details of the outbreak that killed hundreds of thousands of Americans.
“It sort of just appeared. I don’t recall,” Fauci said of the six-feet social distancing mandate imposed on federal agencies, businesses and schools.
“Just an empiric decision that wasn’t based on data or even data that could be accomplished,” he added of the federal emergency guidance that wasn’t dropped until August 2022, two and half years after the start of the pandemic.
Fauci also refused to admit that mask mandates for children as young as 2 years old had led to widespread learning loss and speech development issues in children — or that he had flip-flopped on that recommendation.
“I didn’t flip-flop,” he said at one point, adding later that there were “conflicting studies” on masks and their efficacy was still “up in the air.”
“Was there ever a cost-benefit analysis done on the unintended consequences of masking kids versus the protection that it would give them?” a committee staff member asked him at another point.
“Not to my knowledge,” Fauci replied.
He also refused to walk back any of his statements on the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines in 2021 — and defended President Biden’s remarks during a CNN town hall that year claiming the jab would totally protect people from hospitalization and death.
In an accompanying 17-page memo, committee staff for the majority highlighted other evasions, saying it was “deeply concerning that Dr. Fauci is entirely unaware of the grants he is personally approving.” —>READ MORE HERE
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