Adam Andrzejewski, founder and CEO of Open the Books, was the only reporter to expose the fact that Dr. Anthony Fauci is the highest paid government employee and rakes in a yearly income of well over $1.7 million.
In a just world, his efforts would be lauded as a prime example of the power of the First Amendment. Fauci is one of the most powerful government officials, and the American people deserve to know how rich he's become "serving the public."
Instead, Andrzejewski was fired from his position as a contributor at Forbes. Why? Because the NIH pressured Forbes' leadership.
Andrzejewski outlines the whole story in a shocking new post on the Open the Book Substack.
After Andrzejewski published several exclusive articles detailing Fauci's finances, top officials at the NIH sent an email to the big wigs at Forbes. They characterized their complaints as mere "corrections," but their true intent was clear. They wanted Forbes to get rid of Andrzejewski.
Two directors, two bureau chiefs, and two top PR officers didn’t send an email to the Forbes’ chief on a Sunday morning because they wanted to correct the record about Fauci’s travel reimbursements.
They sent that email to subliminally send a message: We don’t like Andrzejewski’s oversight work, and we want you to do something about it.
Unfortunately, Forbes folded quickly.
Within 24 hours of the NIH email to Randall Lane, my regular Forbes editor called and announced new rules. Forbes barred me from writing about Fauci and mandated pre-approval for all future topics.
Then, Forbes went silent and terminated my column roughly 10 days later on January 28.
This is exactly the kind of bureaucratic overreach a Convention of States was designed to address. These NIH officials believe they're so powerful, so untouchable, that they can pressure a newspaper to fire a contributor without fear of consequences.
Bureaucrats at the NIH aren't elected, so we can't hold them accountable at the next election. But we can hold them accountable with an Article V Convention of States.
A Convention of States is called and controlled by the states and has the power to propose constitutional amendments that limit the power, scope, and jurisdiction of the federal government. These amendments can shrink the alphabet soup of federal agencies by clarifying that the feds have no business in the economy, energy, education, and of course, healthcare.
These amendments will significantly reduce the size and scope of federal agencies like the NIH -- or eliminate them altogether.
We'll see if public health bureaucrats are so confident when they're looking at the dissolution of their entire agency.
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