Sure - A 55 Year Response To An Emergency Use Experimental Biological Agent Seems Above Board
In a society where the government is set upon a structure where, in the ideal, it operates from the premise on Of, By, and For the People, asking and receiving information about its processes in a timely manner allows the people to operate from a basis of knowledge.
However, this government, many have come to refer to as the DEEP STATE seems happy to operate as if the Constitution upon which this country is founded never existed ... especially in this opportunistic and corrupt age of the Wuhan Red Death pandemic known through the moniker COVID-19.
Now - that after nearly two years since the first broad incidences of illness,
kept a secret, in China, and one-year after the development and Emergency Use
approval by the Federal Drug Agency (FDA) on biological agents being given the
name Vaccine - people wish to know just what these agents are made of.
This becomes even more important since these agents are not fully approved as
Vaccines by the FDA so the Pharmaceutical companies are not legally libel if
these agents cause unintended consequences through their use ... or forced
government mandates recommended by the CDC in concert with the FDA.
In terms of foot dragging by the FDA ... follow the corruption found in the
out of control DEEP STATE aided through the Left-Wing Media Complex as the
political leadership of the Uni-Party led by the whole of the Democrat
Political Party with back benching Establishment Republicans.
This excerpted and edited from Reuters -
Wait what? FDA wants 55 years to process FOIA request over vaccine
data
By Jenna Greene - November 18, 2021 - 1:31 PM PST
Freedom of Information Act requests are rarely speedy, but when a
group of scientists asked the federal government to share the data it
relied upon in licensing Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, the response went
beyond typical bureaucratic foot-dragging.
As in 55 years beyond.
That’s how long the Food & Drug Administration in court papers this
week proposes it should be given to review and release the trove of
vaccine-related documents responsive to the request. If a federal judge
in Texas agrees, plaintiffs Public Health and Medical Professionals for
Transparency can expect to see the full record in 2076.
The 1967 FOIA law requires federal agencies to respond to information
requests within 20 business days. However, the time it takes to actually
get the documents “will vary depending on the complexity of the request
and any backlog of requests already pending at the agency,” according to
the government’s central FOIA website.
Justice Department lawyers representing the FDA note in court papers
that the plaintiffs are seeking a huge amount of vaccine-related
material – about 329,000 pages.
The plaintiffs, a group of more than 30 professors and scientists from
universities including Yale, Harvard, UCLA and Brown, filed suit in
September in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas,
seeking expedited access to the records. They say that releasing the
information could help reassure vaccine skeptics that the shot is indeed
“safe and effective and, thus, increase confidence in the Pfizer
vaccine.”
But the FDA can’t simply turn the documents over wholesale. The records
must be reviewed to redact “confidential business and trade secret
information of Pfizer or BioNTech and personal privacy information of
patients who participated in clinical trials,” wrote DOJ lawyers in a
joint status report filed Monday.
The FDA proposes releasing 500 pages per month on a rolling basis,
noting that the branch that would handle the review has only 10
employees and is currently processing about 400 other FOIA requests.
“By processing and making interim responses based on 500-page
increments, FDA will be able to provide more pages to more requesters,
thus avoiding a system where a few large requests monopolize finite
processing resources and where fewer requesters’ requests are being
fulfilled,” DOJ lawyers wrote, pointing to other court decisions where
the 500-page-per-month schedule was upheld.
Civil division trial lawyer Courtney Enlow referred my request for
further comment to the DOJ public affairs office, which did not
respond.
Plaintiffs' lawyers argue that their request should be top priority,
and that the FDA should release all the material no later than March 3,
2022.
“This 108-day period is the same amount of time it took the FDA to
review the responsive documents for the far more intricate task of
licensing Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine,” wrote Aaron Siri of Siri &
Glimstad in New York and John Howie of Howie Law in Dallas in court
papers.
“The entire purpose of the FOIA is to assure government
transparency,” they continued. “It is difficult to imagine a greater
need for transparency than immediate disclosure of the documents
relied upon by the FDA to license a product that is now being mandated
to over 100 million Americans under penalty of losing their careers,
their income, their military service status, and far worse.”
They also argue that Title 21, subchapter F of the FDA’s own
regulations stipulates that the agency “is to make ‘immediately
available’ all documents underlying licensure of a vaccine."
Given the intense public interest in the vaccine, the plaintiffs'
lawyers say that the FDA “should have been preparing to release (the
data) simultaneously with the licensure. Instead, it has done the
opposite.”
Siri declined comment.
To meet the plaintiffs’ proposed FOIA deadline, the FDA would have to
process a daunting 80,000 pages a month. But the plaintiffs note that
the FDA has 18,000 employees and a budget of $6 billion and “has itself
said that there is nothing more important than the licensure of this
vaccine and being transparent about this vaccine.”
To be sure, most people -- including many who sanctimoniously proclaim
“I do my own research” -- lack the expertise to evaluate the
information.
But the plaintiffs, who also include overseas professors from the UK,
Germany, Denmark, Australia and Canada, appear to be well-positioned to
do so.
As Siri and Howe argue, “Reviewing this information will settle the
ongoing public debate regarding the adequacy of the FDA’s review
process.”
U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman has set a scheduling conference for
December 14 in Fort Worth to consider the timeline for processing the
documents.
We, at MAXINE, may have been vaccinated, but we choose to self-identify as
The Unvaccinated. We understand that we have a lot in common with folks who
have been travelling the world over this last year through the
implementation of jet travel vaccine passports who are The Unvaccinated but
choose to self-identify as ... wait for it ... vaccinated. Samey-o, same-o in attitude.
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Unvaccinated, Transparency, Title 21, subchapter F, MAXINE
