The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee subpoenaed 14 agencies in mid-January about the origin o

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The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee subpoenaed 14 agencies in mid-January about the origin of Covid-19 and risky research conducted at a lab in China with U.S. funding, its chair, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), announced Monday.

The list of agencies includes the National Institutes of Health, the State Department, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Department of Health and Human Services, the FBI and the CIA, among others.

The subpoenas were issued in the last days of the Biden administration and before the CIA announced it had decided that it was more likely a lab leak that caused the pandemic than an infected animal that spread the virus to people. Previously, the CIA had said it couldn’t conclude with certainty how the pandemic started.

Paul said he still needs answers about who at NIH allowed U.S. funds to be spent at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the Chinese research facility in the city where Covid first emerged, in the wake of former President Joe Biden giving a preemptive pardon to Anthony Fauci, the long-time director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

NIAID, part of NIH, funded research on coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute.

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