Peter Daszak, FBI stand-down, Wuhan lab

Newly released federal records show Customs and Border Protection prepared a formal examination of EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak when he returned from the World Health Organization’s COVID-origin mission in China.

CBP officers planned to question Daszak about his contacts at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, his travel inside China, Chinese government officials and whether he collected, carried or mailed biological samples.

Then the FBI’s New York Field Office intervened with one instruction: do not stop the subject.

The documents do not explain why.

Senator Rand Paul has separately requested an investigation into whether Daszak or coronavirus researcher Ralph Baric was ever used as a confidential source or informant by the FBI or another Justice Department component. That inquiry is not proof such a relationship existed—but it makes the FBI’s missing explanation impossible to ignore.

Tonight, we follow the documents, expose the unanswered questions and separate what the records prove from what investigators must still uncover.