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Senator Rand Paul @SenRandPaul - These records show NIAID was funding risky research with the Defense Department, and when the results turned problematic, Dr. Fauci argued they should have been classified. The email he sent demanding answers went to his longtime special assistant, who has since declined to answer the Committee's questions. Americans deserve to know what kind of risky research their taxpayer dollars are funding. It is clear additional oversight is needed into what Dr. Fauci's institute was paying for long before COVID. This is exactly why Congress should pass the Risky Research Review Act. Under my bill, an independent board of outside scientists would have to review research like this before a single taxpayer dollar went out the door.
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Senator Rand Paul @SenRandPaul - Screenshot: The same email referenced a "CoV study" waiting for a "green light." With the Ebola work paused, he wrote that they would "continue to make plans to initiate the CoV study as soon as the lights turn green."
https://x.com/SenRandPaul/status/2104568702956097570

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/2104568696194638335

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/2104568691220213912

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/2104568686019555555