(RightIsRight.co) – New documents from an animal rights group made a shocking revelation, as the Biden administration knew and covered up a scandalous research lab that ran cruel experiments on beagles.
Documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by the White Coat Waste (WCW) Project showed that Anthony Fauci and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) tried to hide funding of the beagle experiments the same day that the Tunisian lab publicly and privately admitted NIAID’s financial support.
Back in 2021, Congress started investigating NIAID after reports surfaced about the agency funding abusive tests on beagles.
The infamous image of beagles with their heads trapped in bags filled with sandflies sparked widespread outrage.
Moreover, the sand fly experiments were conducted at the Pasteur Institute in Tunisia, where there are no laws protecting animals used in testing. According to WCW, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which oversees NIAID, has no oversight there.
On October 25, the U.S. Embassy spoke with a Tunisian dog researcher by phone. The researcher confirmed the experiments were funded by the NIH but claimed they were “presented in a wrong and distasteful way” and denied any animal abuse.
Furthermore, a U.S. Embassy staff informed then-Ambassador Donald Blome that the Pasteur Institute’s director confirmed in an October 25 radio interview that Fauci’s NIAID had funded the lab.
WCW Founder and President Anthony Bellotti stated, “We’ve exposed how Fauci and his team fabricated and spread disinformation denying they funded it and how Fauci broke federal law by using his personal email to evade FOIA requests about Beaglegate.”
Journalist Leighton Woodhouse documented how Abhay Satoskar, a researcher involved in the experiment, emailed NIAID about a paper detailing the beagle experiments, claiming, “The grant was mistakenly cited as a funding source in the paper.”
The journal now includes a statement saying, “The US National Institutes of Health and the Wellcome Trust did not provide any funding for this research and any such claim was made in error.”
However, NIH communications show that NIAID’s only proof that their funds did not go toward the Tunisian beagle experiment was Satoskar’s statement. Despite this, the statement was sent to reporters as “bombshell proof” debunking the scandal.
NIH removed the sand fly study from its database, and a November 2021 article on the outrage noted that the study was no longer listed among projects funded by NIAID.
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