Promises kept: the GOP is digging into COVID origins, the botched response, and Dr. Anthony Fauci.
According to a report from AP News, “The Republican chairmen of the House Oversight Committee and the Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic are seeking information, including from Dr. Anthony Fauci, concerning the idea that the coronavirus leaked accidentally from a Chinese lab.”
“This investigation must begin with where and how this virus came about so that we can attempt to predict, prepare or prevent it from happening again,” Rep. Brad Wenstrup, (R-OH) chair of the virus subcommittee, said in a statement on Monday.
Chairman Rep. James Comer (R-KY) promises to “follow the facts” and “hold U.S. government officials that took part in any sort of cover-up accountable.”
From AP News:
Wenstrup, who is also a longtime member of the House Intelligence Committee, has accused U.S. intelligence of withholding key facts about its investigation into the coronavirus. Republicans on the committee last year issued a staff report arguing that there are “indications” that the virus may have been developed as a bioweapon inside the China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology.
That would contradict a U.S. intelligence community assessment released in unclassified form in August 2021 that said analysts do not believe the virus was a bioweapon, though it may have leaked in a lab accident.
The letters sent Monday do not require the cooperation of recipients. But in announcing the Republican staff report in December, Wenstrup said that lawmakers would issue subpoenas if potential witnesses didn’t cooperate.
More over at ABC News:
House Republicans have launched an investigation into the origins of COVID-19 by issuing a series of letters to current and former Biden administration officials for documents and testimony. https://t.co/b2WQi3Y9Op
— ABC News (@ABC) February 14, 2023
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