A week after the inauguration, US senator Rand Paul of Kentucky issued a flurry of congressional subpoenas to 14 agencies, including the NIH and HHS. The senator said the continuing investigation was being conducted in order to “critique the process that allowed this dangerous research, that may have led to the pandemic.”
In one subpoena sent to a Pentagon agency, Paul is seeking “all records related to whistleblower disclosures or complaints of waste, fraud, and abuse involving the origins of COVID-19, gain of function research, dual use research of concern, or life sciences research,” according to a copy of the subpoena provided to WIRED. He is further seeking any funding provided to EcoHealth Alliance by USAID and other departments.
A staffer at one of the agencies targeted by the subpoena says they have already furnished the senator with tens of thousands of records under…
