We got the exact same FOIA requests, except for one paragraph was not redacted, and when it was redacted, it was for apparently being related to an open law enforcement investigation,” he explained. “So we sent a letter with five members of my committee, that if five members do request this, the agency shall turn them over to us. Fauci,” Johnson said during an appearance on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle,” noting that the emails were “heavily redacted.”
Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 26, 2021. A portion of an email was redacted using an exemption reserved for information related to “pending law enforcement proceedings.” Troves of internal emails detailing the findings were obtained by nonprofits and news organizations through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. The group has sent federal funds to support gain-of-function research at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) where there have since been reports of potentially the first COVID-19 cases detected in late 2019.ĭaszak’s organization in the past had received $3.7 million in funding from NIAID, at least $600,000 of which was sent to the WIV. researcher Peter Daszak, president of the nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance.ĮcoHealth Alliance has worked directly with China’s Wuhan laboratories to research coronaviruses. Johnson is one of five Republican senators demanding answers from the HHS after it redacted parts of an email between National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) chief Fauci and U.S. This is information the American public deserves to have,” Johnson said in a statement on Twitter.
Anthony Fauci are “hiding something” from Americans by redacting key information in correspondence that the public “deserves to have.”
Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) on Sunday suggested that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and infectious disease expert Dr. Authored by Isabel Van Brugen via The Epoch Times,