France warned U.S. about research at the Wuhan lab way back in 2015. But Obama not only ignored, he evaded...

Following is extensively edited from a piece by Eleanor Bartow published July 28, *2021*

The Wuhan Institute of Virology began in 2004 as a joint project between France and China.  France provided the lab’s design, biosafety training and much of its technology.  

The two nations cooperated in research there for 11 years.  But in 2015 French officials warned our State Department that China was cutting back on agreed collaboration at the lab.  That's according to former State Department official David Asher, who led an investigation by the State Department into the origin of covid.

(2015 was when Chinese researchers at the Wuhan lab published a paper reporting their success in inserting a single gene into a coronavirus.  The back cover of that paper thanked Fauci's NIAID for funding that research.)

Two years later, in 2017, the Chinese barred French scientists from the lab altogether, leading French officials to warn the State Department that they had grave concerns as why the Chinese shut them out of the lab.

Four years later, in January 2021, just before Trump's term ended, the State Department claimed the Wuhan lab had been performing classified military research since at least 2017.

The biden State Department didn't respond to The Daily Caller’s request for comment.

In late July, 2021, China blocked the World Health Organization organization from examining crucial records at the lab, and said it would not allow the WHO to inspect the lab further.

“The Chinese basically sucked State into its honey pot operation to gain access to U.S. technology, knowledge, and material support. Classic. Just as they have done in every sector,” Asher said.

Between October 2009 and May 2019, the U.S. Agency for International Development provided $1.1 million to the U.S.-based EcoHealth Alliance to fund research at the Wuhan Institute.

EcoHealth Alliance also received funding from the Department of Defense to fund research at the Wuhan lab.  Between 2014 and 2019 the National Institutes of Health gave grants to EcoHealth Alliance totaling $600,000 to fund research at the lab.

[It should be noted that in 2017 congress passed a law banning the funding of such research in the U.S.]

Asher said all those agencies should have stopped sending U.S. dollars to the Wuhan lab back in 2015, when the French first warned the State Department that the Chinese had stopped cooperating.

Asher says the U.S. officials who had visited the lab and sent the warning cable were not permitted to return to the lab because they were asking “too many questions.”
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The “Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989” was passed to make the weaponization of viruses illegal, in fact a felony with a life sentence punishment.

But in 2014 the Obama regime issued a "Moratorium" that directly undermined the 1989 law.  This was done by a single footnote on page 2 of the order, which said
 >>“An exception from the *research pause* may be obtained if the head of the USG funding agency determines that the research is urgently necessary to protect the public health or national security.”

The "research pause" referred to in the footnote was the part of the 1989 law that barred funding of "gain-of-function research" to make biological agents more deadly.

Question is, was the determination that "the research is urgently necessary to protect the public health" ever made, and if so, by whom?  My guess is that it wasn't, simply because when Fauci was explicitly asked by Ron Paul if his agency had ever funded such research, he unequivocally denied doing so.  If he'd made the determination, he would almost certainly have used that finding to justify the funding, since the funding itself is a matter of extensive record. 

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