Legal watchdog Judicial Watch sues Department of Defense for gain-of-function records

Legal watchdog Judicial Watch sues Department of Defense for gain-of-function records

Senator Rand Paul wrote: “[A]t least 15 federal agencies knew from the beginning of the pandemic that EcoHealth Alliance and the Wuhan Institute of Virology were seeking federal funding in 2018 to create a virus genetically very similar if not identical to COVID-19.”

Judicial Watch Sues Defense Dept for Gain-of-Function Records Predating Covid-19

Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Defense for records on funding proposals submitted to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Biological Technologies Office prior to the Covid-19 outbreak (Judicial Watch Inc. v. U.S. Department of Defense (No. 1:26-cv-00433)). Judicial Watch filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columb…