REVEALED: State Department staff warned officials NOT to investigate Wuhan lab's gain-of-function research because it would 'open a can of worms' and expose US funding
- New report in Vanity Fair exposes the tug-of-war over COVID origin investigation
- Trump appointee in State Department was warned by staff to back off lab theory
- Staffers feared it would expose US funding for gain-of-function research
- WIV received grants for the research through nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance
- EcoHealth head Peter Daszak spearheaded effort to crush lab leak theory
- Top WIV scientist admitted in 2019 that some Chinese labs were 'neglected'
- Former Trump Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the National Institute of Health tried to suppress the department's investigation
- Pompeo said there was pushback in his own department from people who did not agree with him or Trump
- He also said he had to deal with 'internal debate' from the NIH
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