House GOPers Call on Top Scientist to Clarify Comments About Lab Leak Theory

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House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.), Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), and other Republicans called on Dr. Kristian Andersen to clarify earlier comments he made about suppressing the COVID-19 lab leak origin theory.

In an earlier appearance before Congress, Andersen suggested that he had not suppressed information about the lab leak theory; according to the GOP letter released today, those earlier claims may be untrue in view of statements Andersen made to Vanity Fair.

โ€œOn February 3, 2022, we wrote you regarding apparent attempts to conceal or cover-up pertinent information regarding the origins of COVID-19, specifically the hypothesis that it leaked from a laboratory in Wuhan, China,โ€ the letter begins. โ€œOn February 17, 2022, you responded to our letter and stated that you were โ€˜not aware of, and [were] not involved in, any effort to suppress any particular theory about the origins of SARS-CoV-2.’โ€

โ€œRecent reporting by Vanity Fair brings into question the truthfulness of that response. Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. ยง1001, โ€˜in any matter within the jurisdiction of the โ€ฆ legislative โ€ฆ branch of the Government of the United States, knowingly and willfully mak[ing] any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or representationโ€™ is a crime. We therefore invite you to correct the Committee record, in person, in a transcribed interview at your earliest convenience,โ€ wrote the Republican lawmakers.

The Vanity Fair article details how in June 2021, evolutionary biologist Jesse D. Bloom had prepared a draft of a paper suggesting that the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus pandemic leaked out of the high-level biological research facility in Wuhan, China. Though later information has indicated that this theory is likely true, many in the federal medical establishment were hesitant to admit such a link at the time.

Because Bloomโ€™s paper contained potentially sensitive information about the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which is chaired by Dr. Anthony Fauci, Bloom offered to allow Fauci to read the draft prior to peer review or publication.

By Joseph Lord

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