The fallout from the infamous COVID-19 debacle continues to pile up. There is now evidence that the Biden administration may have openly interfered with investigations into the virus's origins. In the latest, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, has released documents indicating the Biden FBI interfered with Customs and Border Protection's questioning of the World Health Organization's (WHO) Peter Daszak on his re-entry into the United States.
BREAKING: @SenRandPaul, the Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, has just released internal federal documents which he says show that the FBI intervened and stopped CBP from searching and questioning Peter Daszak upon his return to the US from China at JFK airport… pic.twitter.com/dHHXpNwBhR
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) July 20, 2026
The post reads:
BREAKING: @SenRandPaul, the Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, has just released internal federal documents which he says show that the FBI intervened and stopped CBP from searching and questioning Peter Daszak upon his return to the US from China at JFK airport in 2021 during the WHO's investigation into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The documents show that CBP's National Targeting Center had flagged Daszak, President of EcoHealth Alliance, as an "extremely high person of interest" ahead of his arrival in the US, citing his more than 15 years of collaboration with the Wuhan Institute of Virology and his role as principal investigator on NIH grants funding bat coronavirus research in China, and that "much of the funding DASZAK receives is put towards gain of function research."
The documents reveal that CBP had a series of questions they planned to ask Daszak when he landed and were going to search his media, until they were told to stand down by the FBI.
In an email dated 2/4/2021, a CBP official notifies others within CBP:
"Please be advised that FBI New York has requested we do not stop the subject below."
Chairman Paul says as a result, the stop, search, and questioning of Daszak never happened.
That's kind of a big deal. There were, at the time, allegations that Dr. Daszak may have had serious conflicts of interest in the WHO investigation, due to his ties in China. This makes it appear as though the FBI deliberately squashed the CBP from questioning Daszak on his return to the United States - and that is, after all, CBP's job.
Why would the FBI, then during the Biden administration, order this?
See RedState's own Scott Hounsel's coverage of the COVID crisis:
Read More: New NIH Letter Again Confirms That Fauci Lied, Funding Went To Wuhan Lab; Cancels Funding of Grant
Fauci Edited Bat-Virus Research Papers in the Weeks After COVID-19 Outbreak
The more that comes out about this, the more suspicious the whole thing looks. Between the siphoning of American taxpayer dollars for gain-of-function viral research in Wuhan, China, to Dr. Anthony Fauci's massive over-reactive recommendations to two presidents that effectively shut down the American economy for months, and now, to this. This smells like a dead woodchuck under the porch, and until all the last remains of that critter are dug out and dragged into the open, it will only get worse.
You can view all of the documents released by Senator Paul here.
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