Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) revealed that a letter in his possession showed that top security clearance was given to billionaire tech guru and founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates, to the Department of Energy and that it was granted by former President Barack Obama. While Obama was in office, Gates was provided with a “Q security clearance” that lasted between 2014 and 2021.
The clearance overlapped with Dr. Anthony Fauci’s time serving as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, according to information gleaned from a letter from the DOE. Paul then requested unanimous consent to enter the letter into the Congressional record during a Senate hearing where Fauci was being questioned for information discovered in his journal.
A “Q” top secret clearance “typically applies to positions involving nuclear weapons design, national laboratories, critical energy infrastructure and classified scientific research,” the National Security Law Firm explained. The eligibility for a person to obtain such a clearance is up to an ongoing review. “Reapplication is possible but difficult without demonstrable changed circumstances,” National Security Law Firm’s website went on to say.
During the Senate hearing, Fauci himself clammed up and refused to answer any questions he was presented with, invoking the Fifth Amendment right to not incriminate oneself. How Fauci handled the COVID-19 pandemic has been under scrutiny for some time, especially after the discovery of thousands of his emails hailing back to the beginning of the outbreak in 2021.
According to a report from The Daily Caller, other emails showed the doctor communicating with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, an executive at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, along with a Chinese health official whom the former NIAID director told that the countries would “get through this together.”
“The blame equally should go not only to Chinese authorities, but to Anthony Fauci and all those who advocated for this,” Paul said to Fox News. “Look, Bill Gates has been over there recently. Bill Gates is the largest funder of trying to find these viruses in remote caves and bring them to big cities. What happened in China is they went 8 to 10 hours south of Wuhan, 2 to 300 feet deep into a cave, found viruses and took them back to a city of 15 million.”
Paul has been working toward holding Fauci accountable for the horrific measures he recommended during the pandemic that ultimately led to more deaths and near economic ruin for the United States, thanks in large part to lockdowns that were part of the government’s approach to dealing with the coronavirus, for many years now.
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During an interview with Reuters in 2021, Gates said he was puzzled by the fact he and Fauci were both at the center of a number of conspiracy theories that people were placing them at the center of during the COVID pandemic. “Nobody would have predicted that I and Fauci would be so prominent in these really evil theories,” Gates said to Reuters at the time. “I’m very surprised by that (and) I hope it goes away.” Gates also offered up praise for Fauci and his handling of the virus.”
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