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Senator Rand Paul@SenRandPaul · Jul 31, 2026

Bill Gates had a Q Clearance and a private editor at NIH. Across nearly twenty years, the Bill & Melinda Gates…

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A journalist releases documents revealing that Bill Gates held a Department of Energy security clearance for seven years, had Anthony Fauci serve as his private editor, and the Gates Foundation maintained close ties with NIH leadership and received briefings on military biological programs—raising questions about the private influence of a philanthropic organization on U.S. government agencies.

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    Bill Gates had a Q Clearance and a private editor at NIH. Across nearly twenty years, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation built a relationship with the federal government that ran on personal access as much as formal partnership. I'm releasing the documents. 🧵

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    Bill Gates held a Department of Energy "Q" security clearance for seven years, including during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. DOE confirmed his clearance "was reciprocally granted on June 11, 2014, and subsequently terminated on December 6, 2021." A "Q" clearance permits access to Top Secret Restricted Data of the U.S. Government.

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    With the help of David Morens, Anthony Fauci served as Bill Gates's private editor. In April 2020, Gates asked Fauci for feedback on his memo "Pandemic I: The First Modern Pandemic." In January 2022, Gates asked Fauci to edit his book before it went to the publisher.

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    Fauci returned tracked changes, then wrote: "I gave the manuscript in close confidence to a trusted colleague who destroyed it after reading it. His name is Dr. David Morens."

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    When the NIH Director asked what his agency's ties to the Gates Foundation were, the answer came back that the foundation had been funding pieces of NIH. Francis Collins emailed Fauci and senior staff: "For reasons I can't currently explain, I need answers to the following: 1) are we giving any grants to BMGF (I assume no) 2) what are our current collaborative projects with BMGF?"

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    NIH's internal review reported the foundation had never applied for an NIH grant, but that "BMGF [(Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation)] has funded various components of NIH." Collins was then called to an Oval Office meeting with no stated agenda. He asked: "Is this coordinated in some way, or is Bill going rogue?"

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    DARPA gave the Gates Foundation a private briefing on four military biological threat programs. On May 3, 2022, DARPA's Biological Technologies Office convened a ninety-minute session at agency headquarters covering INTERCEPT, PREEMPT, Friend or Foe, and ReVector.

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    PREEMPT's stated aim is "targeting viruses in animals before they emerge in humans." Its projects include bat sampling across four countries and a transmissible Lassa vaccine "with internal off switch," listed for potential deployment in Sierra Leone, Guinea, and other West African countries.

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    Collins told Melinda French Gates he had spent his tenure bringing NIH and the foundation closer together. Days after Collins announced his resignation, Collins wrote: "It has been a privilege to work with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation over these 12 years, and I am glad to have had the chance to bring our global health efforts even closer together than ever."

  10. #10

    Americans deserve transparency from the highest level of their government. I obtained these documents and I released them, and I will keep pulling this thread until the full picture is public. Read every document: paul.senate.gov/readingroom/?r…