FOIA Docs Suggest Biden Admin Was Aware That Fauci’s NIAID Lied To Cover Up Cruel Beagle Experiments

By Brooke Mallory, OAN Staff
Wednesday, August 21, 2024 5:18 PM

New documents from animal rights groups show the Biden administration was aware of NIAID’s cover-up of cruel and revolting dog experiments.

advertisement

In 2021, reports of highly inhumane experiments on beagles rocked a Tunisian research center and Dr. Anthony Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

Daily Caller The outlet received Freedom of Information Act documents from the White Coat Waste (WCW) Project showing that Fauci and the agency tried to hide their funding for the beagle experiments on the same day that the Tunisian lab privately and publicly acknowledged NIAID as the source of funding.

“Tunisia has laws to protect animals, but these laws have not been enforced for years,” human rights lawyer Delsaf Shoaib said in 2022.

moreover, Animal Reader “Tunisia has no specific legislation to protect stray animals,” this year’s report said.

In June, Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia showed a harrowing photo at a congressional hearing of a beagle’s head stuffed into a bag full of sandflies, outraging animal lovers across the U.S. and around the world.

In October 2021, the hashtag “#ArrestFauci” became popular on Twitter (now X) after the revelation of inhumane experiments on beagles funded by NIAID.

The sandfly research took place at the Institut Pasteur in Tunisia, which has no regulations protecting animals used in experiments and is not subject to any oversight by the NIH, according to WCW.

Emails documenting the social media protests revealed that animal rights groups in Tunisia had advocated for the protest outside the Pasteur Institute in a specific Facebook group dedicated to exposing cruel experiments.

The “Beaglegate” hashtag also spread in October 2021, and according to the documents, on October 24th^NumberState Department and Tunisian Embassy officials shared internal videos about WCW’s activities.

Tunisian dog researchers contacted the U.S. Embassy on October 25.^Number And he confirmed that the experiment was funded by the National Institutes of Health.

Radio appearance on October 25th^NumberIn 1999, a U.S. embassy official told then-Ambassador Donald Blom, who was CC’d on numerous emails, that the institute’s director had confirmed that Fauci’s NIAID had sponsored the facility.

“Hekmi Rouzir, director of the Pasteur Institute, said in an email that the research was funded by the NIH and the UK-based Wellcome Trust.” The Daily Wire Reported.

According to documents obtained by WCW, Fauci told employees that they were “under fire” for animal testing. Later that day, Fauci and his team sent misleading information to corporate media outlets, including the Washington Post, in an effort to discredit the story.

“#FauciLiedDogsDied is not a slogan on Donald Trump Jr.’s T-shirt, it’s the truth about Beaglegate. In 2021, WCW is following the money Dr. Fauci’s Tunisian dog labRecords obtained through FOIA litigation Proof that he provided funding “We have conducted experiments in which we drugged beagles, locked them in laboratory cages and fed them alive with blood-sucking flies,” said Anthony Bellotti, founder and chairman of WCW. “Fauci and his team Fabricating and spreading false information They deny that they provided funding and that Fauci broke federal law. Used personal email to evade Beaglegate FOIA requestsAnd now it has emerged that even a Tunisian laboratory admitted to the US embassy and the media that Dr. Fauci was funding the barbaric beagle experiments there.”

“Mr. Fauci epitomizes government corruption and Congress must hold him accountable for his misconduct with criminal penalties, including fines and imprisonment,” he continued.

Republican politicians also publicly revealed the news.

“The truth is clear: Dr. Fauci funded experiments on dogs overseas and misled the public, the press and Congress. We have relentlessly held Dr. Fauci and the NIH accountable, and now we are leading the bipartisan PAAW Act to end funding for the remaining painful experiments on dogs and cats that Dr. Fauci approved during his tenure at NIH,” said Rep. Nancy Mace, Republican of South Carolina.

In a subsequent announcement later in 2021, NIAID tried to argue that it had only funded a different, less cruel study vaccinating dogs against leishmaniasis, and further stated that the dogs were allowed to roam freely in “enclosed open spaces during the day.”