By Greg Piper | Just the News
“We don’t want Montana to be the next Wuhan,” Big Sky Country senator says, asking inspector general to probe federal lab after RFK Jr. confirms whistleblower allegations. NIH has dribbled out details on pathogen accidents.
The ABC political thriller Scandal ran for six seasons. If it were a reality show, The Real Scandals of Rocky Mountain Laboratories might be getting renewed for a ninth season.
Sen. Tim Sheehy, R-Montana, urged Department of Health and Human Services Inspector General March Bell to immediately investigate “safety, security, and personnel practices at RML,” a BSL-4 facility on the west side of Montana near the Idaho border that conducts federal research on the most dangerous pathogens in the world, including newly resurgent Ebola.
He cited a whistleblower complaint alleging employee misconduct and the National Institutes of Health’s acknowledgment of “theft, loss, or release of a pathogen” twice in the past year at RML, part of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, warning that “even small lapses could put Montana communities at risk.”
“We don’t want Montana to be the next Wuhan,” Sheehy wrote on X this week, referring to the suspected geographic origin in China of COVID-19. The IG’s office didn’t answer a query for its response to Sheehy.
Sheehy’s interest was piqued two weeks ago by President Trump whisperer Laura Loomer’s interview with Justin Goodman of the anti-animal testing White Coat Waste Project about an “NIH cover up involving biological sabotage and Ebola infected monkeys in Montana,” as alleged by an anonymous tell-all received by WCW.
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