Dan Crenshaw Instagram – Earlier this year, local officials discovered that a Chinese national was running an illegal biolab in California. This lab was packed with nasty stuff like dengue, COVID-19, HIV, malaria, tuberculosis. We also have reason to believe that this individual was stealing American intellectual property for the Chinese Communist Party. If the government found deadly pathogens lying around a hidden lab, you’d assume this would be addressed immediately, right? Well, when they called the CDC, they hit a wall. California state and local officials told @repgallagher and @committeeonccp that the CDC was slow to respond, and only launched an official investigation after months of dragging their feet.  The CDC Director couldn’t give me an answer on why they didn’t test all the samples right there on the spot, as per the explicit request of state and local officials. We just had a pandemic that wreaked havoc worldwide, possibly originating from a lab in China, and our own CDC is claiming they lack the authority to fully test a hidden biolab? This is EXTREMELY concerning. This exposes gaping holes in our oversight of risky research. Our federal government is flying blind, with no game plan to identify or tackle this looming threat. We have to get to the bottom of this.