131/ “The Trump White House’s prioritization of election year politics over the pandemic response—even as cases surged last fall—is among the worst failures of leadership in American history,” said Rep. James E. Clyburn…” washingtonpost.com/health/2021/10…
132/ Declassified US intelligence report on COVID-19's origins says both natural transmission and lab leak theories remain 'plausible' news.yahoo.com/declassified-u…
133/ “The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis released…new evidence showing how CDC officials were pressured by Trump admin officials to alter scientific guidance and prevented from communicating directly with the public.” cnn.com/2021/11/12/pol…
“At the center of the scheme was an unusual cast: a former British spy connected to the security contractor Erik Prince, a wealthy heiress to the Gore-Tex fortune and undercover operatives like Mr. Maier and Ms. LaRocca who used Wyoming as a base…”
“It is also a sign of how ultraconservative Republicans see a deep need to install allies in various positions at the state level to gain an advantage on the electoral map.”
“Erik Prince had set Mr. Seddon’s work in motion, recruiting him around the beginning of the Trump administration to hire former spies to train conservative activists in the basics of espionage, and send them on political sabotage missions.”
3 Chicago ties just in this one tweet. Hanssen started in Chicago as rookie cop. Barr worked at kirkland & ellis. Opus dei first opened in u.s. down the street from u of chicago.
111/ “WHO investigators visited a research center in the Chinese city of Wuhan that has been the subject of speculation about the origins of the coronavirus, with one member saying they’d intended to meet key staff and press them on critical issues.” apnews.com/article/879837…
2/ Joe Biden announced a week before he became president that he was keeping Francis Collins as director of the National Institute of Health (NIH), the world's largest biomedical research agency. reut.rs/2XMEcfw
3/ Collins was appointed and confirmed as its director during the Barack Obama administration. Before that, he ran the Human Genome Project (HGP) during the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush administrations. bit.ly/2MXl0JZ