Agents with U.S.Customs and Border Protection (CBP) were preparing to question a British zoologist and disease ecology expert upon his return to the United States from the World Health Organization’s investigation into the origins of COVID-19, before the FBI intervened and asked agents to stand down, according to files released Monday by Sen.
Rand Paul, R-Ky."They told the public a COVID lab leak 'wasn’t plausible,'" Rand wrote on X."Their own private messages say otherwise.
Today I’m launching The Reading Room where the public can review records related to my ongoing investigation – not just conclusions but the actual documents."The documents show CBP’s National Targeting Center flagged Peter Daszak as "a high person of interest" ahead of his Feb.5, 2021, arrival at John F.
Kennedy International Airport.Daszak, the former president of EcoHealth Alliance, was flagged because of more than 15 years of collaboration with the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) and his longstanding relationship with its lead researcher, Zhengli Shi, as well as his role as principal investigator on National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants funding bat coronavirus research in China.RAND PAUL BRINGS CIA WHISTLEBLOWER TO SENATE HEARING ALLEGING 'DEEP STATE' COVID-19 CONSPIRACYOfficials with U.S.Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Peter Daszak prepared to question and search Peter Daszak upon his return to the United States from the World Health Organization’s investigation into the origins of COVID-19, before the FBI intervened and asked agents to stand down, according to documents released Monday by Sen.
Rand Paul, R-Ky.(Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs; Getty Images)Much of the funding Daszak received was put toward gain-of-function research, the documents state.The documents highlight that the NIH had asked Daszak to retrieve the original type-specimen used by WIV for genetic analysis and return it to the U.S., as well as to explain several a...