Newly released records offer a glimpse of how federal public health officials reacted when questioned by Congress about an illegal, China-tied biolab in California. That lab contained labeled samples of the virus that causes COVID-19, as well as Ebola, HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis.
The records cover last June, July, and August and include a message from a top official at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warning staff that “there is some congressional oversight heading our way.”
A total of 133 pages of documents make up the first installment of records obtained by The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project through the Freedom of Information Act as part of an “interim response” to its requests. (The Daily Signal is the news and commentary outlet of The Heritage Foundation.)
The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic…
