Senator Rand Paul @SenRandPaul - Screenshot: Four days later, one of them wrote: "I will keep the rest off Email." In the same message, he warned that if aerosol challenge studies were treated as dual use research of concern, "the entire MCM development paradigm is gutted." https://x.com/SenRandPaul/status/2104573613890285893
Senator Rand Paul @SenRandPaul - Screenshot: They paused related work and restricted discussion. Deputy Director Cliff Lane told two NIAID scientists not to move forward on experiments in the area until the dust settled, warned that "one might consider this dual use research," and instructed them not to discuss it outside the two of them. https://x.com/SenRandPaul/status/2104573611667308610
Senator Rand Paul @SenRandPaul - Screenshot: NIAID officials discussed "damage control." "We may need to a bit of damage control here," NIAID's biodefense director wrote. https://x.com/SenRandPaul/status/2104573608915820994
Senator Rand Paul @SenRandPaul - Screenshot: Fauci's longtime special assistant, who recently invoked the Fifth, was copied on an email concerning NIAID-funded risky research involving aerosolized Ebola. Fauci demanded "the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth" about whether NIAID money went into the aerosolized challenge studies and who at NIAID was responsible. https://x.com/SenRandPaul/status/2104573606277583342
Senator Rand Paul @SenRandPaul - Screenshot: At a National Security Council meeting, Defense Department officials were asked who funded the study and answered that they had done it together with NIAID. Dr. Fauci wrote that he "almost fell off my chair."