Bill Gates Held Top-Secret DOE Clearance During 2014-2021 Gain-of-Function Research Era
A Department of Energy letter shows Bill Gates received a Q-level security clearance from 2014 to 2021, overlapping Dr. Fauci’s funding of gain-of-function virus work.
A letter obtained by Senator Rand Paul reveals that Bill Gates was issued a Q-level security clearance by the Department of Energy, granting him access to highly classified information for seven years, from 2014 through 2021. This clearance aligns with the tenure of Dr. Anthony Fauci as head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, during which NIAID funded gain-of-function experiments at a Wuhan laboratory.
In a congressional hearing, Dr. Fauci invoked his Fifth Amendment rights over a hundred times when asked about his role in pandemic policies and the lab’s work. Paul highlighted the overlap between Gates’s clearance and the period of U.S. funding for the controversial research, questioning why a private philanthropist needed such access. The Gates Foundation and the DOE have not provided a response to inquiries. The hearing also touched on communications between Fauci, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Chinese health officials, underscoring broader concerns about pandemic accountability.
Why it matters
It reveals a private donor’s access to top-secret U.S. research, raising transparency questions about pandemic-related science funding.
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