The Central Intelligence Agency, whose very existence implies a regime of secrets, has objected to an act of transparency.
According to Bill Melugin of Fox News, the CIA on Wednesday accused Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, Chairman of theSenate Homeland Security Committee, of acting “in bad faith” by issuing a subpoena to an alleged CIA whistleblower who then testified toDr. Anthony Fauci’s“intentional” role in a COVID-19 origins cover-up.
Special operations officer James Erdman III appeared before Paul’s committee on Wednesday.
According to theNew York Post, Paul lauded Erdman III as a former Army Ranger who has worked with the State Department and, more recently, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
None of that endeared the Kentucky senator to Erdman III’s current employer.
“They are not happy with the way this hearing is going down,” Melugin said of the CIA in a clip of a live report from Capitol Hill posted to the social media platform X. “They are accusing Senator Rand Paul and the Senate Homeland Security Committee of, quote, ‘acting in bad faith’ in putting this hearing together.”
Moments later,Meluginread a CIA statement.
“The Committee acted in bad faith by subpoenaing an Agency officer for testimony today without notifying CIA, despite having already obtained closed-door testimony from the individual previously,” the statement began.
“The witness testifying today is not appearing as a whistleblower in pursuit of the truth, but instead in response to the subpoena issued by Chairman Paul,” the statement continued. “This proceeding amounts to nothing more than a dishonest political theater masquerading as a congressional hearing. As the CIA has already assessed, COVID-19 most likely originated from a lab leak, and efforts to undermine that conclusion are disingenuous.”
Then, before the committee hearing, Melugin asked Paul for a response to the CIA statement. The senator replied by touting “transparency” and asserting that “we [the federal government] over-classify everything.”
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