Weatherman2020
Diamond Member
They don’t know.
Remember: everyone who thinks the government is too big simply wants to kill grandma. Or something.
Republicans need to cut all Pentagon funding until they figure out where it goes.
Despite years of warnings that China operates an illicit biological weapons program, the U.S. military remains unable to determine whether it sends American tax dollars to Beijing for research that could make pathogens more dangerous or deadly, the Pentagon's chief watchdog declared in a stunning new warning to policymakers.
"The DoD did not track funding at the level of detail necessary to determine whether the DoD provided funding to Chinese research laboratories or other foreign countries for research related to enhancement of pathogens of pandemic potential," the Pentagon inspector general concluded in a report released this month.
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The findings show the Pentagon has done little to improve transparency on a critical security issue in the two years since the Government Accountability Office, an investigative arm of Congress, first raised concerns that defense officials could not account for how biological research funds sent to China were being used....
The latest inspector general report also adds to momentum in Congress to formally ban the Pentagon from funding "gain-of-function" research in foreign countries, a goal that has increased in priority now that some members of the U.S. intelligence community like the FBI believe the COVID-19 pandemic began with a virus leak inside a Wuhan lab doing research funded by U.S. tax dollars. Gain-of-research refers to the serial passaging of microorganisms to increase their transmissibility and virulence among other things.
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Remember: everyone who thinks the government is too big simply wants to kill grandma. Or something.
Republicans need to cut all Pentagon funding until they figure out where it goes.
Despite years of warnings that China operates an illicit biological weapons program, the U.S. military remains unable to determine whether it sends American tax dollars to Beijing for research that could make pathogens more dangerous or deadly, the Pentagon's chief watchdog declared in a stunning new warning to policymakers.
"The DoD did not track funding at the level of detail necessary to determine whether the DoD provided funding to Chinese research laboratories or other foreign countries for research related to enhancement of pathogens of pandemic potential," the Pentagon inspector general concluded in a report released this month.
...
The findings show the Pentagon has done little to improve transparency on a critical security issue in the two years since the Government Accountability Office, an investigative arm of Congress, first raised concerns that defense officials could not account for how biological research funds sent to China were being used....
The latest inspector general report also adds to momentum in Congress to formally ban the Pentagon from funding "gain-of-function" research in foreign countries, a goal that has increased in priority now that some members of the U.S. intelligence community like the FBI believe the COVID-19 pandemic began with a virus leak inside a Wuhan lab doing research funded by U.S. tax dollars. Gain-of-research refers to the serial passaging of microorganisms to increase their transmissibility and virulence among other things.
Pentagon doesn’t know if it funds dangerous biological research in China, new audit reveals
The lack of accountability for research funding follows years of warnings that China operates an illicit biological weapons program that could be unwittingly helped by U.S. research-- and tax dollars.
justthenews.com
