State Sabotage

Kudos to Vanity Fair. The outlet has just published an explosive report on various efforts to investigate the origins of COVID-19. Consider these excerpts:

"A months long Vanity Fair investigation, interviews with more than 40 people, and a review of hundreds of pages of U.S. government documents . . . found that conflicts of interest, stemming in part from large government grants supporting controversial virology research, hampered the U.S. investigation into COVID-19's origin at every step.

"In one State Department meeting, officials seeking to demand transparency from the Chinese government say they were explicitly told by colleagues not to explore the Wuhan Institute of Virology's gain-of-function research, because it would bring unwelcome attention to U.S. government funding of it."

So elements of the Swamp were doing everything they could to prevent an investigation into the origins of COVID-19. One memo reveals that an official worried the investigation would "open a can of worms." 

Well, what was he worried about? That an investigation would inevitably show that our public health bureaucracy, i.e. Dr. Anthony Fauci, without any consent from the American people, bankrolled dangerous research at the communist Chinese Wuhan lab? Apparently so.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, working with President Trump, did set up an investigative group at the State Department. Those researchers did their best to battle entrenched bureaucrats who refused to consider the obvious – that the virus leaked from the Wuhan lab. 

That investigation was unceremoniously disbanded by the Biden White House. But in recent days, as the lab leak theory gained credibility, the Biden White House suddenly reversed course and ordered U.S. intelligence agencies to produce their own report on the origins of COVID-19 in 90 days. 

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out what's going on here. 

Biden shut down an investigation he could not control, led by people with strong relationships with Mike Pompeo and Donald Trump, and gave it to the same intelligence community that lied to us for years about President Trump allegedly colluding with Russia. 

In my view, what happened was a shell game. Biden killed the investigation that might have resulted in a clear conclusion, forcing him to confront communist China for its responsibility for 600,000 American deaths. Instead, Biden would rather work with communist China on the fake issue of climate change.

There's an additional reason he might not want an independent investigation: It could cause problems for the Biden family's (Hunter Biden's) dealings in communist China.