Inspector general report reveals ‘Washington hasn’t learned any lessons from COVID,’ top GOP Senator says.
How much taxpayer money has the Pentagon sent to Chinese institutions to research deadly viruses such as the one that causes COVID-19? The answer to that is a mystery—even to the Pentagon.
Significant “limitations” in the Pentagon’s internal grant tracking systems have rendered it impossible for the military to determine exactly how much money it has provided to Chinese research laboratories for risky experiments to boost deadly pandemic pathogens, according to a Department of Defense Inspector General report released Thursday. It’s standard practice for recipients of federal research grants to forward a portion of their federal funding to subgrantees, but Pentagon officials told investigators that they are not required to keep track of those subgrantees. […]
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