Mon Dec 20, 2021 – 4:36 pm EST
WASHINGTON (LifeSiteNews) — Emails recently obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit indicate U.S. government officials were anxious to protect American diplomats working in China from being forced to submit to degrading and unnecessary “anal swab” tests for COVID-19, the Daily Caller reported Friday.
The emails were obtained by conservative foundation Judicial Watch after the group filed a FOIA lawsuit against the U.S. State Department.
China has denied that it required U.S. diplomats to take the tests.
“It took six months and a federal lawsuit to confirm that our embassy in Beijing was concerned about the Chinese government’s invasive anal swab and other COVID testing of our diplomatic personnel — at [sic] that as many as two people were asked to submit to a test,” the foundation’s president Tom Fitton said in a statement. “Our diplomatic personnel were harassed in a reprehensible way by the Chinese government, and the Biden administration seems to have done little in response — except to cover it up.”
.@JudicialWatch lawsuit uncovers U.S. Embassy Beijing concerned diplomatic personnel asked to submit to anal swab COVID testing. Redacted docs show as many as two people were either
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