"I haven't gotten the latest COVID shots, and I'm not going to… there's mixed evidence about if it really does anything," says Raja Cholan, Chief of the Health Data Standards Branch at the U.S. National Library of Medicine for The National Institutes of Health.
Cholan, who defines the strategy for health data standards at the NIH, raised concerns about vaccine risks, particularly for younger individuals: "For people that are 30 or under, it really increases your risk for heart conditions. The data does show that... I’m close enough to 30 to where I don’t want to have a heart attack." He added, "I probably shouldn’t be saying this out loud," acknowledging the sensitivity of his statements around vaccine safety.
He also expressed doubts about the vaccines’ effectiveness, adding, "I don’t even know if these vaccines stop you from getting COVID. They don’t."
Cholan linked the NIAID to the funding of vaccine research, alleging, "There is some evidence out that the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases… they might have funded Wuhan, a lab in Wuhan, China, to make COVID," referencing Anthony Fauci and his role in global health initiatives. "That’s where Fauci was the director. Like they might have funded some labs to do vaccine studies and disease, like to prepare for an outbreak."
Criticizing the expedited vaccine approval process, Cholan explained, "The measles vaccine requires several rounds of approval, but the COVID-19 vaccines were accelerated through the approvals for all of us to get our boosters." He also highlighted the financial motivations behind the vaccines, saying, "Pfizer and Moderna are just getting a bunch of money from it."
Cholan also commented on the difficulties of implementing reform, even under an administration led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., adding, "Anything that RFK would want to do probably would just, like, wouldn’t happen,” pointing to the entrenched relationships between federal agencies, pharmaceutical companies.
O'Keefe Media Group contacted Cholan for comment but did not receive a response. Prior to the release of the NIH Tapes, Cholan deleted his LinkedIn account.
“When my granddaughter is old enough to ask, ‘Tata, what were you doing back then?’ I want to look her in the eye and say, ‘I tried. I did my best,’” says Aaron Veckey, a former U.S. Border Patrol agent turned whistleblower.
He describes wrestling with fear, public criticism, and his own imperfections, and still choosing to speak the truth.
“Just because I haven’t been perfect doesn’t mean I shouldn’t try to do better. I can’t sit by. My conscience has to be clean.”
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“You could have somebody cutting through the wall… and you can’t launch a pepper ball in his direction. Apparently, at that time, you couldn’t do anything.”
Aaron Veckey, former Border Patrol agent, says “all these refugees and all these asylum seekers… weren’t even allowed to come in through the right way” and were “funneled… through holes in the fence into the Border Patrol.”
James O'Keefe asks, “You don’t really enforce the law, do you, anymore?” Veckey responds: “At that time, we weren’t.”
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“They think it’s funny… but I’m a law enforcement officer and a Christian first. It’s not my job to punish these people for coming here illegally.”
Aaron Veckey, a former Border Patrol agent, describes walking into a freezing cell with 60 men piled together, “intertwined, hugging each other… to try to stay warm,” after agents failed to turn on heaters or provide blankets. Some agents, he says, laughed and told him, “Well, this is what they get for coming here.”
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This follows OMG’s reporting that Choi dated the daughter of a senior CCP official, admitted “She could have been a spy,” and refused to report her.
A senior State Department official says they will “ensure our national security is protected” and hold accountable “any employee who puts America’s safety in jeopardy.” We will continue to update as the story unfolds.
