Justice for the Fauci Gang

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Before he left the White House on January 20, Joe Biden pardoned Dr. Anthony Fauci, sealing his fate as “the architect, author, and Godfather of the pandemic,” according to Sen. Rand Paul, who filed criminal referrals on the longtime NIAID boss. On the other hand, the outgoing Biden did not pardon former National Institutes of Health acting director Lawrence Tabak, whose sudden resignation last week invites inquiry.

Last year Tabak admitted that the NIH funded dangerous gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in Communist China, which Fauci had previously denied. There’s more going on with Tabak, a dentistry professor appointed in 2010 as NIH principal deputy director and deputy ethics counselor.

In 2022, Tabak told Congress that, at the request of Chinese scientists, the NIH, “eliminated from public view” data on the early genomic sequences of COVID-19. As Tabak explained, the NIH did not destroy the sequence but “it just did not make it available for interrogation.” Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler asked if the NIH was able to “withdraw public viewing” of the data.  Tabak said that was correct but implied that the concealment had been “an error,” due to “old technology.” The deputy ethics counselor left room for reasonable doubt.

As Vanity Fair reported, the information could resolve whether the Covid virus leaked from the WIV or arose naturally in the wild. China refused to participate in an investigation of the issue. The notion that the virus arose naturally in the wild is speculation, not science, which involves empirical inquiry, testing, and replication. By contrast, evidence that the virus leaked from the WIV was steadily mounting.

“China and Viruses: The Case of Dr. Xiangguo Qiu,” a January 2020 paper by Israeli molecular biologist Dr. Dany Shoman, revealed that Dr. Qiu, provided the WIV with deadly pathogens including Makona, Mayinga, Kikwit, Ivory Coast, Bundibuguy, Sudan Boniface, Sudan Gulo, MA-Ebov, GP-Sudan and Nipah viruses from Malaysia and Bangladesh. This cargo came from Canada’s National Microbiology Lab (NML) in Winnipeg, where Dr. Qiu, a Chinese national, ran the special pathogens program. In 2017 and 2018, Dr. Qiu made at least five trips to the WIV, funded by Dr. Fauci to perform research that makes viruses more lethal and transmissible.

Fauci and NIH director Francis Collins both lied about the funding and when researchers found evidence of a lab leak, Fauci pressured them to change their position or smeared them as “conspiracy theorists.” When CDC director Robert Redfield found evidence of a lab leak he got death threats, but no word of any FBI investigation. While this played out, acting NIH director Lawrence Tabak made news on another front.

From 2010 to 2020 NIH scientists and leaders raked in $350 million in undisclosed royalties. This was public information but heavy NIH redactions concealed the amounts paid to Collins (14 payments) Fauci (23 payments) and Fauci’s deputy Clifford Lane with eight payments.  The concealment was a departure from 2005 when, as Adam Andrzejewski of Open the Books noted, the revelations included the name of the official, the amount, and the third-party payer.

As John Solomon revealed in 2005, Fauci and Lane failed to tell patients the NIH employees were receiving royalties from pharmaceutical companies and device makers. For Andrzejewski, that was a conflict of interest “on its face.” For NIH acting director Tabak, it was only “an appearance of a conflict of interest,” a curious position for the ethics counselor, not the only official Biden failed to pardon. Consider also James LeDuc, former director of the Galveston National Laboratory (GNL), a project of Fauci’s NIAID, and a close collaborator with the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

LeDuc maintained that the Covid virus arose naturally in the wild and “the Chinese just happened to be in the place where this was discovered.” Early in the pandemic “a conspiracy theory emerged,” claiming it was caused by a coronavirus from “a laboratory in Wuhan, a province in China.” As it happens, LeDuc signed agreements with three Chinese labs, including the WIV, giving China the power to destroy  “secret files, materials and equipment, without any backups.” The agreements applied to “all cooperation and exchange documents, data, details and materials,” were renewable every five years, and the confidentiality terms remaining in force even after termination.

Those agreements with China could explain why LeDuc suddenly retired in 2021. So did a Centers for Disease Control official Biden failed to pardon.

In early 2020, the CDC’s Dr. Nancy Messonnier delivered a series of press briefings that faithfully echoed China’s talking points. According to Messonnier, the “novel virus” emerged in the “Wuhan market” and would quickly spread across the country. When reporters asked about individuals returning from Wuhan, Dr. Messonnier said that was “not something that I’m at liberty to talk about today” but did not reveal which official was laying down the rules.

Dr. Messonnier began her career with the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS), the CDC’s medical CIA, tasked to prevent viruses from arriving on American soil. The CDC did not reveal what the EIS knew about the Covid virus and how it was vectored to America. Proclaimed a “true hero” by Biden CDC boss Rochelle Walensky, Dr. Messonnier suddenly retired in May of 2021.

Lawrence Tabak retired two days before President Trump’s pick Robert F. Kennedy Jr., author of The Real Anthony Fauci, was confirmed to head Health and Human Services. Kennedy and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, Trump’s pick to head the NIH, need to see if the unpardoned Tabak, LeDuc and Messonnier did anything that would qualify for attention from the DOJ.

The Covid pandemic shapes up as a China-NIAID operation against the American people. Biden pardoned Fauci but his network remains in place. To take it down, RFK Jr. and Dr. Bhattacharya should first target the key pandemic figures Biden failed to pardon.

Just so they know, Dr. Nancy Messonnier is the sister of Rod Rosenstein, the DOJ official who launched the investigation into Trump over the Russia hoax, which he knew was false.  For coincidence theorists the connection means nothing, but at some point Rosenstein might serve as Nancy’s pro bono attorney.