Posted on 05/06/2020 8:16:45 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A Trump administration health official said in a whistleblower complaint Tuesday that top officials within the Department of Health and Human Services “pressured” him for years to award contracts based on “political connections and cronyism.”
Dr. Rick Bright, former head of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) — the government’s top vaccine procurer — was removed from his role on April 20 and reassigned to a narrower role at the National Institutes of Health. Bright, who ran BARDA since 2016, initially said his removal stemmed from “clashes with political leadership” over his resistance to the promotion of anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine as an unproven treatment for coronavirus.
In his full 89-page complaint, Bright points to repeated clashes with his former boss, HHS assistant secretary for preparedness and response Robert Kadlec, whom Bright accuses of pushing him to secure contracts for drugs that were “not meritorious” but were personally linked to him. Bright also says he urged his superiors to take up the offer of a major U.S. manufacturer that offered to produce N-95 masks at theoutset of the pandemic, but was rebuffed.
Bright’s lawyers, Debra Katz and Lisa Banks — who also represented Christine Blasey Ford — called Bright’s removal from BARDA “retaliation, plain and simple.”
HHS said in a statement Tuesday that Bright’s transfer was for a “critical” role on testing.
“Dr. Bright was transferred to NIH to work on diagnostics testing — critical to combating covid-19 — where he has been entrusted to spend upwards of $1 billion to advance that effort,” HHS spokeswoman Caitlin Oakley stated. “We are deeply disappointed that he has not shown up to work on behalf of the American people and lead on this critical endeavor.”
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Pure politics, this law firm is making an industry out of the fake whistleblowers. One would think after the Ford fiasco they would be shamed.
They have no shame. They are idiots.
You’ve seen the crowd at Trump pressers. For the most part the are mush-brained Millenials under 30.
Whistleblower, Dr. Rick Bright Complaint Claims HHS Pushed ‘Political Connections and Cronyism’ in Doling Out Drug Contracts
This is to be expected isn’t it? $$$$$$$$$$$
So he was transferred and rather than show up for work he called some liberal ambulance chasers.
Alien face Paula E.T. Reid couldn't do a report if she couldn't trash Trump and couldn't use the word "but".
Whistleblower, Dr. Rick Bright “
Yeah right.
So did he quit? Hopefully he resigned so we don't have to support this loser. He didn't get fired, so he better not apply for unemployment benefits.
Another fake whistleblower, either recruited by, suborned by, or in league with, Schiff-for-Brains.
Mr Not So Bright was also on WHO’s advisory board.
It doesn’t make sense though.
If he was removed for resistance to HCQ, there are multiple suppliers of HCQ and its a cheap drug with no money in it.
I’m not surprised if there was HHS cronyism in the past. But this particular instance sounds like he was overly committed to bureaucratic processes. He was unwilling in the face of an unprecedented crisis to be flexible and use European studies as a basis for allowing a much needed treatment.
So he stood on the tracks as the Trump Train was coming and now wonders why he got run over.
I thought that whistleblowers are supposed to remain anonymous. That is what we were told by the politicians during the Ukrainian call hoax and everybody trembled in fear of pronouncing his name.
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