Wed Aug 2, 2023 – 4:37 pm EDT
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – Republican U.S. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky announced over the weekend that he has filed a criminal referral to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) against former top White House COVID-19 adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci for apparently lying to Congress about his role in subsidizing controversial gain-of-function (GOF) research that is suspected of contributing to the COVID outbreak.
Paul cites a 2020 email in which Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases (NIAID), discusses how suspicion that the virus’s origin may not have been entirely natural “was heightened by the fact that scientists in Wuhan University are known to have been working on gain-of-function experiments to determine the molecular mechanisms associated with bat viruses adapting to human infection, and the outbreak originated in Wuhan.”
GOF research entails intentionally strengthening viruses to better study their potential effects, which is controversial because doing so means they are more dangerous if they ever leak out of the controlled environment of a laboratory.
Paul says the email “directly contradicts everything he said in committee hearing to me, denying absolutely that they funded
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