According to an Inspector General’s report, released last week from the Department of Defense, the Pentagon funneled an undisclosed amount of money – likely tens of millions of dollars – to 12 research programs, including the infamous Wuhan lab.
Bob Maginnis, a military analyst for the Family Research Council, says the Department of Defense was looking for vaccines and other defenses against possible chemical attacks from U.S. enemies.
“The Pentagon has a biochemical program,” he advises. “It says it no longer works on biological agents but does try to anticipate what might be used against us elsewhere in the world.
The U.S. government also funneled more than $44 million to the scandal-plagued EcoHealth Alliance, which is accused of being the tied to what became known as the COVID-19 virus.
According to Maginnis, there are very few groups or countries that are doing that kind of research.
“They looked around the globe trying to find someone that would do that type of research,” he advises, “and Wuhan was the only place they could find that was willing to assist."
The problem, of course, is that the China and its Chinese Communist Party are enemies of the United States.
According to a related story by The Blaze, a second problem is called a “top pacing challenge,” a Pentagon reference to a country’s research labs that have poor safety protocols and guidelines.
“They should have acknowledged it early on when all the publicity about Wuhan was in the papers,” Maginnis says. “[National Institutes of Health] has to have been aware of what the Pentagon was doing.”
