While reading this article on the Fauci / Trump Administration debacle in WaPo, I ran across this:
Many FDA career scientists and doctors see the White House criticism of Fauci as an effort to bully him — to make it clear that no one should consider crossing the president in the months leading up to the election, according to people familiar with the scientists’ thinking.
“To see an NIH scientist and a doctor attacked like that, the feeling is, ‘Oh, my God, that could just as easily be me,’ ” said a former FDA official, who like some others interviewed spoke on the condition of anonymity to be candid without risking retribution.
Biden, the presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee, should issue a statement that runs along these lines:
“To all American bureaucrats who fear telling the truth to the Trump Administration or the American public could lead to career difficulties or job termination, stop worrying. If I am elected President, I will see to it that you will get your job back and have your career restored.”
We should never have to read a statement such as the one issued by the anonymous former FDA official. That is an absolute scandal.
