Direct Link to Rick Bright's Whistleblower Complaint (.PDF)

[Mike 03]

https://www.kmblegal.com/sites/default/files/NEW%20R.%20Bright%20OSC%20Complaint_Redacted.pdf

Excerpt:

Also on January 23, 2020, Dr. Bright attended a meeting with HHS senior leadership across
all agencies to brief Secretary Azar on COVID-19. Anticipating the urgency and magnitude of the
threat and knowing the lead times needed to develop new drugs, diagnostics, and vaccines, Dr.
Bright pressed for urgent access to funding, personnel, and clinical specimens, including viruses,
which he emphasized were all critically necessary to begin development of lifesaving medicines
needed in the likely event that the virus spread outside of Southeast Asia. Secretary Azar and Dr.
Kadlec responded with surprise at Dr. Bright’s dire predictions and urgency, and asserted that the
United States would be able to contain the virus and keep it out of the United States. Secretary
Azar further indicated that the CDC would look at the issue of travel bans to keep the virus
contained. Dr. Bright responded that virus “might already be here. We just don’t have the tests to
know one way or the other.” Dr. Bright’s comments were met with skepticism and were clearly
not welcome. Nonetheless, he continued to press his point that the situation was dire and that
money was urgently needed to develop diagnostics and drugs to combat the virus when it
eventually spread to the United States. Secretary Azar then questioned Dr. Bright about BARDA’s
funding to combat the virus, to which Dr. Bright replied that BARDA had no funds available for
emerging infectious diseases to meet the challenges of this pandemic, and that BARDA would be
forced to re-direct funds from existing projects until new funding was made available. Secretary
Azar also asked the representative from the Assistant Secretary for Financial Resources (“ASFR”)
about availability of funding for the response. It was evident from Secretary Azar’s reaction that
this topic had not yet been raised at senior HHS levels.

Consistent with the attitude of Secretary Azar and Dr. Kadlec, HHS’s public statements at
the time likewise reflected no real sense of urgency. To the contrary, HHS publicly represented
not only that COVID-19 was not an imminent threat, but also that HHS already had all the masks
it would need. On January 23, 2020, an HHS spokesperson stated that “CDC believes that the
immediate risk to the U.S. public is low at this time.” See Gretchen Michael, “Media Key Points”
(Jan. 23, 2020), attached hereto as Exhibit 8. HHS also stated that the SNS “holds millions of
face masks as well as N95 respirators that could be used if needed in responding to a public health
emergency when local supplies are exhausted and aren’t available from commercial suppliers.”11

I've just been skimming it randomly and find it explosive and damning as hell.

NOTE: It's 89 pages.
NOTE: There's a handy list of acronyms at the end of the document.

[DeSmet]

1. Its time.

Time for General Kelly, Preibus, Tillerson, the whole legion of former administration personnel to reflect on what this monster has wrought on the country they love. Step up. Step up now or live with the regret of not doing everthing they could to stop the carnage.

[crickets]

2. K&R for visibility.