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China Failed to Provide Key COVID Info, Fauci Agency Records Show

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China has been accused
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of obstructing investigations into the origins of the COVID virus, and
we can now add another piece to that puzzle.

We received 90 pages
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of records from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that
show the State Department and Dr. Anthony Fauci’s agency, the U.S.
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), knew
immediately in January 2020 that China was withholding COVID data, and
this was hindering risk assessment and response by public health
officials.

The records also show that, nearly two years before the coronavirus
outbreak, the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) sent
“experts” from the NIH-supported P4 lab at the University of Texas
Medical Branch to train Wuhan Institute of Virology lab technicians in
lab management and maintenance due to the Wuhan lab’s shortage of
trained staff. The same April 2018 cable noted that an official from
EcoHealth Alliance “plans to visit Wuhan to meet with Shi [Zhengli
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We obtained the records through our Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
lawsuit
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for
records of communications, contracts and agreements with the Wuhan
Institute of Virology (_Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services_
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(No. 1:21-cv-00696)). The lawsuit specifically sought records about
NIH grants that benefitted the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

The novel coronavirus outbreak
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began in Wuhan, China, in December 2019
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After the outbreak, on January 8, 2020, Dr. Ping Chen
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who had been
NIAID’s top official in China, emails
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senior NIAID colleagues Gray Handley, Erik Stemmy, Gayle Bernabe, and
Barney Graham with the subject line “PRC Response to Pneumonia Cases
Shows Increased Transparency Over Past Outbreaks, but Gaps in
Epidemiological Data Remain.” Chen writes:

hi, here is the cable from US Embassy Beijing reporting on the
pneumonia outbreak in Wuhan, China. It has ruled out SARS, MERS, and
flu. [Redacted] confirmed it is viral infection. [Redacted] The cable
contains SBU information. So please don't distribute it widely.
The summary of the cable states:

While PRC officials have released timely and open general information
about the outbreak, a lack of epidemiologic data – including an
‘epi curve’ (a summary of dates of onset of illness),
characteristics of infected individuals, and other basic epidemiologic
information – hinders better risk assessment and response by public
health officials. Authorities have also not released information on
how they are defining a “case.” Given these gaps in detailed
information to-date, and lack of a final confirmed pathogen, the risk
to the United States and global health is difficult to assess at this
time.

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As of January 7, the Wuhan Health Commission has reported 59 local
cases of pneumonia with unknown cause. (Note: Wuhan, a city of
approximately 11 million people, is the capital of Central China's
Hubei Province. End note.) According to the Health Commission, some
patients are vendors who work in the Huanan Seafood Market, which also
sells live exotic animals, including beaver, snakes, porcupines, and
deer.

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Health officials state there has been no confirmed human-to-human
transmission of the disease, and no cases among health workers.
Laboratory investigations have ruled out influenza, avian influenza,
SARS, MERS, and other common respiratory pathogens, and are awaiting
final pathogen results.

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PRC [People's Republic of China] officials on December 31, 2019
alerted WHO to the pneumonia outbreak. WHO contacts told Embassy
officials that PRC health departments continue to provide information
about the outbreak in accordance with WHO’s International Health
Regulations (IRR). While China has been forthcoming with standard
information, WHO contacts note they have not received more detailed
and potentially useful information, such as “epi curves” or other
epidemiological data. The flow of official PRC information on this
outbreak is limited to that coming from the Wuhan Health Commission
and National Health Commission.
On January 30, 2020, Chen forwards
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to senior NIAID colleagues Gray Handley, Gayle Bernabe, Joyelle
Dominique, William Rosa, Tami Lu and Hilary Marsten a cable issued by
the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, which provides a detailed situation
report on Chinese government responses to the then-fast spreading
SARS-CoV-2 virus from across the country. The cable discusses Chinese
virus mitigation measures, infection case numbers, travel
restrictions, and quarantine measures then taking place in Beijing,
Chengdu, Guangzhou, Shanghai, and Shenyang.

In a section discussing “Media/Social Media” reporting on the
virus in China, the cable discusses a _Global Times_ article about the
“detention” in early January 2020 of eight Chinese residents for
spreading “rumors” about the outbreak of the virus:

[An] article in Global Times praised Wuhan residents for
“whistle-blowing” on virus outbreak. A top epidemiologist at the
Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CCDC) on Wednesday
commended eight residents, who were detained in early January for
spreading “rumors” about the outbreak of the novel coronavirus.
Zeng Guang, Chief epidemiologist at the CCDC, said those eight
residents should be highly regarded as they turned out to be correct
about the viral outbreak, even though the information they spread
“lacked scientific evidence.” Zeng's comment followed an article
from the Supreme People's Court of China (SPC) on Tuesday, in which
the top court said that the eight Wuhan residents should be
“tolerated” and their act of spreading the information, if taken
seriously, would have done much good to the public.
On April 15, 2020, an official whose name is redacted sends an
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to colleagues labeled “WIV [Wuhan Institute of Virology] Cables,”
and writes, “As I am sure you are quite aware at this point the
cables ESTH [State Department’s Environment, Science, Technology and
Health Section] wrote on the WIV lab and the concerns we had about the
findings of the papers on bat coronavirus research have become big
news lately.”

An official forwards an email exchange from April 12, 2018, labeled
“For your review – Cable on Wuhan Institute of Virology visit.”
That email attached a cable titled “China Virus Institute Welcomes
More U.S. Cooperation on Global Health Security.” The partially
redacted summary of the cable begins:

China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology, a global leader of virus
research, is a key partner for the United States in protecting global
health security. Its role as operator of the just-launched ‘P4’
lab – the first such lab in China – opens up even more
opportunities for expert exchange, especially in light of the lab’s
shortage of trained staff.
The cable also mentions that there is also a “U.S. Centers for
Disease Control (CDC)-supported [P4 lab] facility in Pune, India,”
and that China “plans to stand up a second P4 lab in Harbin.”
Harbin is the capital
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of
Heilongjiang province in northeastern China.

The cable notes that Chinese officials, “described the [Wuhan] lab
as a ’regional node’ in the global biosafety system and said it
would play an emergency response role in an epidemic or pandemic.”
It continues, “[E]xperts from the NIH-supported P4 lab at the
University of Texas Medical Branch have trained Wuhan lab technicians
in lab management and maintenance, institute officials said.” It
went on, “NIH was a major funder, along with China’s National
Science Foundation, of SARS research by the Wuhan Institute of
Virology’s [redacted].” Finally, the cable notes, “[Redacted]
with the EcoHealth Alliance (a New York City-based NGO that is working
with the University of California Davis to manage the [redacted],
plans to visit Wuhan to meet with Shi [Zhengli].”

Well prior to the outbreak, on October 2, 2017, NIAID Associate
Director Gray Handley forwards
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to colleagues a State Department cable titled “China’s Interest in
the Global Virome Project Presents an Opportunity for Global Health
Cooperation,” which another official notes “seems relevant to
biobanking, IP [likely Intellectual Property], pandemic flu, and a
bunch of other issue areas.”

The summary of the cable begins:

The proposed Global Virome Project (GVP), an international
non-governmental organization built on a decade-long prototype
initiated by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID),
seeks to address vulnerability from emerging diseases by creating a
global database of viruses of animal origin and identifying those
pathogens with greatest potential to jump to humans through sequencing
their genomes, understanding the ecology involved in transmission, and
assessing risk to humans. This knowledge could then be used to devise
treatments and countermeasures.
The cable states: “U.S-China collaboration on the Global Virome
Project in an opportunity to lead innovation in science, collaborate
with China, and potentially contribute to scientific breakthroughs.”

The records include a February 23, 2018, email
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between the U.S. Embassy in Beijing and NIH headquarters, in which NIH
officials were monitoring “China Health News from Chinese Media
through 02/23/2018:”

* Research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology into how bats
“harbor highly pathogenic viruses like Ebola, Marburg and SARS
coronavirus but do not show clinical signs of disease.”
* New Chinese discoveries that certain Traditional Chinese Medicines
(TCM) could be used to combat bacterial and viral infections which
Western medicines could not address due to growing antimicrobial
resistance (AMR) to the Western drugs. They note, “Previous
experiences showed than TCM remedies can be used as a substitute for
Western antibiotics in the presence of some viral diseases, or lower
the viral load” and that “further largescale clinical trials are
needed before TCM antibiotics can be embraced and promoted
globally.”
* A new nano-technology based flu vaccine the Chinese were
developing at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
* Chinese advances in “Human Gene Therapy”, in which “China is
helping to advance gene and cell therapy and genome editing research
by creating novel viral and nonviral vectors for gene delivery and
innovative applications of CRISPR technology in a broad range of
disease areas.”

These documents show that Fauci’s agency has been hiding
information on China’s failure to provide essential data on
COVID-19. The slow-rolling and stonewalling by Fauci’s agency on
China, gain of function, and its COVID response generally is pure
obstruction.

We have been deeply involved in investigations into the origins of
COVID-19 and have brought a number of facts to light.

In July 2021, Judicial Watch
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obtained records from NIAID officials in connection with the Wuhan
Institute of Virology revealing significant collaborations and funding
that began in 2014. The records revealed that NIAID gave nine
China-related grants to EcoHealth Alliance
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to research coronavirus emergence
in bats and was the NIH’s top issuer of grants to the Wuhan lab
itself.

In June 2021, Judicial Watch
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obtained documents from HHS revealing that from 2014 to 2019, $826,277
was given to the Wuhan Institute of Virology for bat coronavirus
research by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
(NIAID), which is headed by Dr. Anthony Fauci.

In March 2021, Judicial Watch publicly released
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emails and other records of Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. H. Clifford Lane
from HHS showing that National Institutes of Health (NIH) officials
tailored confidentiality forms to China’s terms and that the World
Health Organization (WHO) conducted an unreleased, “strictly
confidential” COVID-19 epidemiological analysis in January 2020.

In October 2020, we uncovered emails
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showing a
WHO entity pushing for a press release, approved by Dr. Fauci,
“especially” supporting China’s COVID-19 response.

It's clear that our own medical bureaucrats, like the Chinese, have
been less than forthcoming about this whole troubling matter.

JUDICIAL WATCH SUES COURT OFFICIALS FOR FIRING MAGISTRATE AFTER SHE
MADE PUBLIC COMMENT ABOUT WRONGDOING TIED TO MURDER

If you want to understand why our streets aren’t safe, this story
will be enlightening.
We filed a lawsuit on behalf of former Virginia Magistrate Elizabeth
Fuller against officials in the Office of the Executive Secretary of
Magistrate Services for firing Fuller in violation of her First and
Fourteenth Amendment rights (_Elizabeth Fuller v. Karl R. Hade, et
al._
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(No. 1:22-cv-00218)).

On October 19, 2021, Fuller was fired from her position as magistrate
after commenting
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to the _Alexandria Times_ as part of a discussion about the publicly
available outcome of her own 2020 complaint against a bondsman named
Man Nguyen.

Ibrahm Elkahi Bouaichi was arrested and indicted by a grand jury on or
about January 13, 2020, for burglary with the intent to commit murder,
abduction, sodomy, strangulation, and rape of Karla Elizabeth
Dominguez Gonzalez. Notwithstanding the seriousness of these charges,
the Alexandria Circuit Court released Bouaichi on a $25,000 bond in
April 2020. Less than four months after his release on bail, Bouaichi,
on July 29, 2020, reportedly drove to Ms. Dominguez’ residence in
Alexandria, Virginia and shot and killed her outside her apartment
complex. The lawsuit alleges:

In the immediate days following the news reports about Ms.
Dominguez’ murder, Plaintiff learned from a police officer in the
citizen lobby of the magistrate’s office that the vehicle and gun
reportedly used by Bouaichi to murder Ms. Dominquez belonged to the
surety bail bondsman, Man Nguyen, who posted the $25,000 bond for
Bouaichi’s release in April 2020. On information and belief,
bondsman Nguyen and the officer struck casual conversation while they
were waiting in the citizens lobby when Nguyen said it was his gun and
car that Bouaichi used to murder Ms. Dominguez, and that he had let
Bouaichi stay at his house while he was away on vacation. The
officer subsequently relayed the information to Plaintiff as part of
casual conversation among friendly colleagues, outside any hearing or
proceeding.
On August 6, 2020, Fuller, in her personal capacity, filed a
complaint with the Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Criminal
Justice Services, alleging that Nguyen violated rules and regulations
of his licensure as a surety bail bondsman. On September 1, 2020,
Nguyen’s surety bail bond license was suspended and revoked as a
result. Fuller understood that this concluded the matter.

More than a year later, the _Alexandria Times_ disclosed information
it obtained through a Freedom of Information request regarding
Nguyen’s involvement, as well as Fuller’s complaint, and
subsequently approached Fuller for comment in October 2021. Fuller
commented as follows:

* Nguyen came to work in the days following the murder nearly
boasting and joking about the fact that the gun and car belonged to
him and that Bouaichi had stayed at his home.
* “[Bondsman Nguyen] was telling this officer about what happened
and almost bragging about it. The officer said to me, ‘You will
never believe what he just said to me.’” “So I said, ‘I’ve
got to do something about it.’”

Five days after this story was published on October 7, Fuller was
placed on administrative leave and she was fired on October 19, 2021.

It was then claimed that Fuller had violated Canon 3, Section B(6)
that states: “[a] magistrate shall abstain from public comment about
a pending, impending or concluded proceeding in any court or
magistrate’s office.”

In early November 2021, Fuller filed a grievance appealing her
termination and asked for reinstatement, which was denied.

We argue that Fuller’s firing was retaliation for protected speech
and that the judicial canon used to justify her firing doesn’t apply
to comments made about a public filing made in her personal capacity
about a concluded matter:

At all relevant times, [Fuller] was engaged in constitutionally
protected speech when she made the comments to the _Alexandria Times_,
which undeniably addressed matters of public concern.

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Plaintiff enjoys the right to freedom of speech, as guaranteed by the
First Amendment to the United States Constitution. This includes the
right to comment to the _Alexandria Times_ on Plaintiff’s public
complaint filed in her personal capacity about the misconduct of a
bondsman and its outcome, and the system’s failure to protect a rape
victim.
An innocent woman is dead because she was murdered by a rapist who
was let out of jail. And so the Virginia court fires the magistrate
who blew the whistle on the court bondsman whose misconduct enabled
this murder?

Ms. Fuller is a hero, and she lost her job in violation of her
constitutional rights because she embarrassed Virginia officials over
their deadly soft-on-crime bail policies.

THE CLINTONS’ RUSSIA-UKRAINE GRIFT

Hillary Clinton still seeks power and relies on her allied media
friends to ignore years-long trail of scandal. That she would so
brazenly cast blame for events in Ukraine on her political opponents
highlights her brazen lack of shame for her misconduct. Judicial
Watch’s chief investigative reporter, Micah Morrison, explains why
in this installment
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of
our _Investigative Bulletin_.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was quick to cast blame as
war unfolded in Ukraine. On MSNBC last week, she blasted former
President Trump for “giving aid and comfort to Vladimir Putin”
with an offhand remark that the Russian president was a “genius.”
Mrs. Clinton conveniently omitted mention that not too long ago, she
and her husband had raked in millions working both sides of a
Russia-Ukraine grift.

Judicial Watch broke the story of former president Bill Clinton’s
multi-million-dollar haul from speech fees while his wife presided
over U.S. foreign policy. In a joint investigation with the Washington
Examiner
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Judicial Watch found that Mr. Clinton gave 215 speeches, taking in $48
million. According to documents obtained by Judicial Watch in Freedom
of Information Act litigation, State Department officials charged with
reviewing proposed Bill Clinton speeches for possible conflicts of
interest did not object to a single one.

The speech fees included a jaw-dropping $500,000 check from the
Russian investment firm Renaissance Capital for a single speech. Years
later, leaked emails revealed the close connection between Renaissance
Capital and Putin’s inner circle. Reuters reported
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that the emails show top Renaissance officials awarding an unspecified
stake in the firm to Matthias Warnig, a close Putin ally. “Warnig
served as an officer in East Germany’s Stasi secret police at the
same time as Putin was a KGB officer in Dresden in the late 1980s,”
Reuters noted.

The Clintons also cultivated a relationship with Putin-connected
oligarch Victor Vekselberg, who donated an estimated $75,000 to the
Clinton Foundation. In 2018, Vekselberg was one of seven oligarchs
sanctioned by the Trump Administration
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for activities
related to the Russian government’s “malign activity … including
continuing to occupy Crimea and instigate violence in eastern
Ukraine.”

According to findings
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by investigative reporter John Solomon, Vekselberg also was involved
in the Uranium One controversy—another lucrative source of cash for
the Clinton network. Uranium One was a Canadian uranium mining firm
with U.S. holdings that the Russians wanted to buy. The vehicle for
the purchase was Rosatom, the Russian state atomic energy corporation.
Because uranium is a strategic asset, the U.S. government had to
approve deal. Enter Vekselberg and Secretary of State Clinton.

At the time of Bill Clinton’s $500,000 Russian speaking engagement,
the former president sought permission from the State Department to
meet with Vekselberg and Arkady Dvorkovich, a senior official of
Rosatom, during the Moscow trip. Russia needed sign-off from the State
Department on the inter-agency panel responsible for deciding the fate
of the deal.

You don’t need to be a genius to connect the dots between a $500,000
“speaking fee,” a trip to Moscow, and Russia’s goal of cornering
a big chunk of the global uranium market.

The sale of Uranium One to Rosatom was approved by both the U.S. and
Canadian governments. In the years surrounding the deal—including
before it became public knowledge—entities connected to Uranium One
donated $145 million to the Clinton Foundation.

The Clintons had a Ukrainian benefactor as well. According to a New
York Times report, Ukrainian oligarch and steel baron Victor Pinchuk
steered between $10 million and $25 million to the Clinton Foundation,
loaned his private plane to the Clintons, flew to LA to attend Mr.
Clinton’s big 65th birthday party, and went to a dinner party at the
Clintons’ home. Pinchuk hired Doug Schoen, Mr. Clinton’s former
consultant, to arrange meetings with State Department officials to
discuss Ukraine. Pinchuk also donated $150,000 to the Trump
Foundation.

Pinchuk has been embroiled in controversies in Ukraine for years, but
he has never been charged with a crime. In 2013, the Commerce
Department began investigating complaints that Pinchuk and others were
illegally dumping steel on the U.S. market. The investigation went
nowhere. According to recent reporting, Pinchuk and his fellow
Ukrainian oligarchs have put aside their sometimes bitter rivalries
and are working to support Ukrainian independence.

As for Mrs. Clinton, last week she declared that Americans should be
“calling out those people” who have given aid and comfort to
Vladimir Putin and his allies. Good idea. She can start by looking in
the mirror.

Until next week...





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