{"id":1966472,"date":"2023-07-07T10:47:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T14:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/interior-department-worked-with-group-linked-to-wuhan-lab-on-key-covid-report-watchdog\/"},"modified":"2023-07-07T10:47:49","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T14:47:49","slug":"interior-department-worked-with-group-linked-to-wuhan-lab-on-key-covid-report-watchdog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/interior-department-worked-with-group-linked-to-wuhan-lab-on-key-covid-report-watchdog\/","title":{"rendered":"Interior Department collaborated with Wuhan lab-linked group on crucial COVID report: Watchdog"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Finterior-department-worked-with-group-linked-to-wuhan-lab-on-key-covid-report-watchdog%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1966472&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Department of the Interior Collaborated with Controversial Group Linked to Wuhan Lab on COVID Study<\/h2>\n<p>The Department of the Interior worked with officials from a global non-profit linked to the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China on a key study of COVID and bats in the United States, according to a watchdog group.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;EcoHealth&#8217;s track record doesn&#8217;t inspire confidence,&#8221; said Protect the Public&#8217;s Trust Director Michael Chamberlain. &#8220;And here we have another instance of the U.S. government relying on this group \u2013 and during a consequential phase of a pandemic. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/interior-department-worked-with-group-linked-to-wuhan-lab-on-key-covid-report-watchdog\/\" title=\"Interior Department collaborated with Wuhan lab-linked group on crucial COVID report: Watchdog\">scandal-plagued organization<\/a> tried \u2013 and for a while succeeded \u2013 to move investigators&#8217; and media focus away from the Wuhan lab where it was closely involved in research.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Controversial Group and Lab Connection<\/h3>\n<p>Protect the Public&#8217;s Trust, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/over-132000-illinois-public-employees-earn-six-figures\/\" title=\"Over 132,000 Illinois Public Employees Earn Six-Figures\">government watchdog organization<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/on-the-scent-docs-confirm-dog-the-bounty-hunter-tracking-in-brian-laundrie-hunt\/\" title=\"On The Scent: Docs Confirm \u2018Dog The Bounty Hunter\u2019 Tracking In Brian Laundrie Hunt\">obtained documents showing<\/a> that the Interior Department worked with officials from the EcoHealth Alliance, a controversial group linked to the lab in Wuhan, on a report on &#8220;the possibility that humans could give SARS-CoV-2 to bats and bats would in turn spread the infection back to humans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The EcoHealth Alliance previously took a U.S. grant for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dr-fauci-admits-to-funding-bat-virus-research-at-wuhan-lab-says-nih-funneled-600k-over-5-years\/\" title=\"Dr. Fauci admits to funding bat virus research at Wuhan lab, says NIH funneled 0K over 5 years\">bat virus research<\/a> and paid part of it to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The group&#8217;s president, Peter Daszak, was part of the World Health Organization-China team that dismissed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joint-who-china-report-urges-no-further-probe-into-extremely-unlikely-lab-leak-theory-u-s-officials-are-pushing-back\/\" title=\"Joint WHO-China Report Urges No Further Probe Into \u2018Extremely Unlikely\u2019 Lab Leak Theory. U.S. Officials Are Pushing Back.\">lab leak hypothesis<\/a> as &#8220;extremely unlikely.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Concerns and Calls for Audit<\/h3>\n<p>In response to the report, Rep. Greg Murphy (R-NC) said that federal funding of the EcoHealth Alliance needs to be audited.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s becoming clearer and clearer by the day just how involved the federal government was with funding EcoHealth Alliance leading up to and during the pandemic,&#8221; he told The Spectator. &#8220;EcoHealth Alliance continues to be at the heart of the origins of the Covid pandemic, and I&#8217;ve called for stripping EHA of its federal funding and auditing the funds it received over the last decade. This revelation reinforces my position further.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Increased Scrutiny on Wuhan Lab<\/h3>\n<p>The watchdog&#8217;s report comes as increased scrutiny is being placed on the Wuhan lab, as some entities, including the FBI and the Department of Energy, believe that it is likely that COVID emerged after a lab leak.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1688648178298000&#038;usg=AOvVaw10v0UGh9BJZV8inaPuI6t7\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a global non-profit associated with the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China on a crucial study of COVID and bats in the US. 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