NIH deleted genetic sequences of covid19, then when WSJ reported, refused to give any reasons. And more...

Two days after the first confirmed case of the China virus was found in the U.S, researchers in India reported the genetic sequence of the virus, from samples smuggled out of China. In addition, a Chinese researcher uploaded two sequences, which were duly stored by the U.S. NIH in a database called the Sequence Read Archive (SRA).

A month or so later the Chinese researcher (whose continued employment obviously depended on his or her obedience to the CCP) emailed the NIH asking it to delete those genetic sequences from their archives.

In June of 2020--just five months after the first U.S. case, and while the U.S. government was supposedly searching for clues as to why the China virus was so (supposedly) lethal, and on how it might possibly have evolved by natural mutation from a bat coronavirus--the NIH deleted the genetic sequence from the SRA.

This was known from the day of deletion but had been carefully hidden from the public.  Finally a year later, on June 22, 2021 a virologist named Jesse Bloom posted a pre-print version of a paper to BioRxiv noting that the NIH had deleted the SRA sequence, but that using the Web's "Wayback Machine" and other techniques, he was able to reconstruct the sequence.  He also did a great job of summarizing the evidence that a harmless bat virus had been deliberately modified to make it lethal to humans.

The next day--June 23, 2021--the Wall Street Journal reported on the NIH deletion of the SRA sequence.  Neither the NIH nor any other branch of the corrupt Biden regime has ever disputed that report.

Now, other than fear of blackmail from China or fear of exposure, what rational basis would cause the NIH to bow to the Chinese communist party and delete the gene sequence of a virus that was on its way to cause a million deaths worldwide, eh?

Other inquiring minds had the same question, and three weeks after the WSJ's report, on July 14, 2021, a watchdog organization called Empower Oversight filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the NIH seeking answers on why—at the request of China—the NIH had deleted the gene sequence of the virus from its database just five months after the virus began spreading around the world.

Now brace yourselves, cuz this next part will shock ya:  The NIH ignored the FOIA request.

And if you've been paying attention to the corruption in the NIH--and specifically to the role of Anthony Fauci in funding the research in China that modified the harmless bat virus to make it lethal to humans--you know why:  The gene sequence proved beyond doubt that the lethal version of the virus contained four obviously-inserted gene sequences that weren't present in the closest "naural" bat virus.  

The pic below--the genetic code for the spike proteins, from "Uncanny similarity of unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV spike protein to HIV-1 gp120 and Gag"--shows how this was determined.  The top line of each triplet is the code for Covid-19.  The middle line is that of the closest matching bat virus (not harmful to humans).  Four contiguous blocks of eight letters (nucleotides) are found in Covid-19 that aren't in the harmless natural virus.  But all the other letters match, which could only happen if the genetic code of the natural virus was cut at each point and the block of new functions inserted.

Whoever made the decision at the NIH to ignore the FOIA request clearly hoped that by doing so they could buy enough time to concoct a plausible excuse for why they deleted the gene sequence from the SRA.  And why would they need to do that?  Because Fauci knew he'd funded the research in Wuhan that led to the modified, lethal virus.  And as head of one of the five divisions of the NIH he had enough clout to get the few key people in the agency to go along.

The NIH has continued to stonewall for a year, filing motion after motion to claim that it either doesn't have to provide the information, or that it can't find any information, and (my favorite) that the FOIA law doesn't require a "perfect search, just a reasonable one."  Wow, that's enough of a loophole to keep a thousand lawyers in new Lamborghini's for the next century.

Empower Oversight has now taken their case to three Republican senators, who asked the NIH to answer the questions asked in the FOIA request.  The NIH drafted a letter with putative answers to the senators’ specific factual questions but didn't transmit the letter.  And in the draft obtained in so-called "response" to the FOIA request, the NIH blacked-out all the answers. 

So not only is the NIH still stonewalling the FOIA request, it's now refusing to give answers to three senators.  Now, do you think the NIH would have done this if it hadn't been assured that the biden regime wouldn't punish any of the people responsible?

Here's a link to Bloom's excellent summary of the coverup.   Parts are very technical but the main thrust is very straightforward.

Empower Oversight's narrative of the year-long stonewall by the NIH  is totally non-technical, and gives a good summary of the NIH stonewall.