(Headline USA) Former Vice President Dick Cheney paved the way for Dr. Anthony Fauci’s rise to the top of the public health bureaucracy, according to a new report.
Journalist Ashley Rindsberg said Cheney was concerned about bioweapons in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and wanted the Bush administration to create a “biodefense strategy.” He was concerned that potential enemies of the U.S. might weaponize “biology” and “viruses,” she argued.
He encouraged the Bush administration to create a massive public health power structure, which we now know as the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and tapped Fauci to head the department.
“This is kind of the thing that people have really missed about Fauci,” Rindsberg said, according to Just The News. “We’ve all come to think of him as a great public health expert — the top public health official in America. He is not that. He’s definitely not that.
“He is in fact, a biodefense national security official at the very top of that command structure. And this is something we all should have known about two, three years ago and not just today,” she continued.
This is why Fauci is one of the highest-paid employees in the entire federal government, she said.
“Fauci’s giant pay packet can be traced back to 2004, the year after NIAID was made the country’s top biodefence authority agency,” she wrote in an article for UnHerd.
Fauci revealed recently that he plans to retire at the end of this year – a move that Republicans have slammed as an attempt to avoid congressional investigation. They’ve vowed to hold Fauci accountable for his role in the COVID-19 outbreak regardless of whether he is still a government employee.
“Retirement can’t shield Dr. Fauci from congressional oversight,” House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking member Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., said last month.
“Emails obtained by Oversight Committee Republicans reveal what Dr. Fauci said publicly about COVID origins was very different than what was said privately. Dr. Fauci was warned by top scientists early on that the virus looked genetically manipulated and likely leaked from the Wuhan lab. Despite these facts, Dr. Fauci dismissed these ideas in public as conspiracy theories.
“We need to know if Dr. Fauci concealed anything from government officials in order to shield the NIH’s cozy relationship with EcoHealth Alliance, a grantee that awarded taxpayer funds to the Wuhan lab to conduct dangerous research on bat coronaviruses,” he added.
