For five years, Americans who asked hard questions about Wuhan were told to sit down, stop speculating, and trust the people in charge. Sen. Rand Paul just released a 23-page federal file showing that U.S. border agents were ready to question one of the most important figures in the COVID-origins story when he returned from China. They had built the targeting package. They had scheduled the inspection. They had written the questions. They never got to ask them. According to the newly released records, the FBI’s New York Field Office asked Customs and Border Protection not to stop Peter Daszak when he arrived at JFK Airport in February 2021. Paul is now putting the file in front of the American people: CBP Had Built The Whole Operation The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee says CBP’s National Targeting Center flagged Daszak as an “extremely high person of interest” before his February 5, 2021, arrival in New York. At the time, Daszak was president of EcoHealth Alliance and had just taken part in the World Health Organization’s mission investigating the origins of COVID-19 in China. The committee says the targeting package cited Daszak’s more than 15 years of collaboration with the Wuhan Institute of Virology. It also cited his role as principal investigator on National Institutes of Health grants that funded bat-coronavirus research in China. This was not a casual airport conversation. CBP had scheduled a Tactical Terrorism Response Team examination and planned to determine whether Daszak was carrying electronic media or biological samples when he entered the country. Agents had prepared questions about where he went in China, whom he met at the Wuhan lab, which areas of the facility the WHO team inspected, whether he remained in contact with lab personnel, and whether any samples or other materials had been collected, transported, or mailed back to the United States. Bill Melugin published images from the file and laid out the sequence: Then Came The Stand-Down Paul’s new Reading Room links directly to the federal records. One entry in the file says Daszak was referred elsewhere and that the “FBI requested not to stop subject.” It ends with four words that should bother anyone who wants a complete accounting: “No further NTC action.” Another internal message says the National Targeting Center had rescinded its previous inspection request, while noting that Daszak might be of interest to the FBI. The committee says the New York Field Office’s request arrived three days before Daszak landed. The planned CBP examination did not take place. The questions about the Wuhan Institute, possible samples, travel contacts, and electronic media went unanswered at the border. What the released packet does not explain is why the FBI intervened. It does not say whether the bureau interviewed Daszak elsewhere, whether it was protecting a separate investigation, or whether another operational concern drove the request. The file establishes the intervention; it does not reveal the motive. That gap is the heart of the story. Why Peter Daszak Mattered A 2025 House Oversight Committee announcement says the Department of Health and Human Services later debarred both Daszak and EcoHealth Alliance from federal programs for five years. That action came after a separate congressional investigation into the organization’s handling of taxpayer-funded research and federal grant requirements. According to the committee, HHS cited failures to comply with oversight requests, report research developments on time, and satisfy requirements attached to an NIH grant involving work in Wuhan. EcoHealth’s board had already terminated Daszak as president and CEO, effective January 6, 2025. Those later findings do not prove why the FBI made its request in 2021, and they should not be used to fill a blank the documents themselves leave open. They do show why Daszak’s activities, federal funding, and relationship with the Wuhan Institute remained matters of intense congressional interest. CBP officers understood that importance in real time. Before Daszak’s plane landed, they had assembled a detailed plan focused on exactly the issues lawmakers would spend years trying to reconstruct. The FBI Still Owes An Answer Fox News reported that the documents were released Monday, summarized the questions agents had prepared at JFK before Daszak landed, and said it sought comment from both the FBI and Nature Health Global, the organization Daszak now leads. The report included no explanation from the bureau for the New York office’s request. There may be a legitimate operational reason. The FBI could have been pursuing its own inquiry, protecting a source, avoiding interference with another case, or planning to approach Daszak through a different channel. None of those possibilities appears in the file Paul released. That means the responsible conclusion is not that the documents prove the FBI “protected” Daszak or establish a criminal cover-up. They do not. The responsible conclusion is that a consequential federal intervention occurred, the planned inspection vanished, and the public still has not been told why. If agents questioned Daszak later, the bureau should say so. If the inspection threatened another investigation, it should provide Congress with the records that can substantiate that claim. And if no follow-up occurred, Americans deserve to know who made that decision and on what grounds. Paul says the Reading Room will be updated on a rolling basis as his investigation continues. The next release should include the FBI request behind this stand-down, the officials who approved it, and any record showing what happened after Daszak cleared the airport. Five years later, “do not stop the subject” is not an answer. It is the question. This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here. The post BREAKING: Rand Paul Releases Documents Showing Who Stopped Agents From Questioning Peter Daszak appeared first on 100PercentFedUp.com.