Stuff on Jeff Sessions and possibly Mitch McConnell related to bio "defense" contracts/lobbying:
(Info from second link)
2008 - 2009: Southern Research Institute lobbied the US Congress and U.S. Department of State for “issues related to research and development for US intelligence” and “defense-related research and development”. The lobbying activities coincided with the start of the Pentagon projects on bio-labsin Ukraine and other former Soviet states.It paid $250 thousand for lobbying Senator Jeff Sessions at this time when the institute was awarded a number of federal contracts. For a 10-year period (2006 - 2016) Southern Research Institute paid $1.28 million for lobbying the Senate, House of Representatives, the State Department and the Department of Defense (DoD).Senator Jeff Sessions’ aide on Capitol Hill – Watson Donald, was a Senior Director at Southern Research Institutewhen Sessions was the AG.
But there's more:
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has invested $100 million in vaccines production from tobacco plants. The companies involved in the project are owned by the biggest American tobacco companies – Mediacago Inc. is co-owned by Philip Morris andKentucky BioProcessing(see first link below) (could Mitch McConnell be involved???), a subsidiary of Reynolds American which is owned by British American Tobacco.Currently they are producing Flu and Ebola vaccines from tobacco plants. The $100 million program Blue Angel was launched as a response to the H1N1 pandemic in 2009. Medicago being awarded $21 million to produce 10, 000 million doses of an influenza vaccine within one month. Blue Angel program manager Dr. John Julias explains: “Although there are multiple plant species and other organisms being explored as alternative protein production platforms, the US Government has continued to make an investment in tobacco-based manufacturing.”
It is not clear why the Pentagon chooses to invest in vaccines produced from tobacco plants amongst all other plant species, which they explored. Medicago, co-owned by Philip Morris, paid $495,000 for lobbying the Department of Defense, the Congress and The Department of Health and Human Services for “funding to advance technology to support public health preparedness applications”. The Pentagon-funded tobacco companies to develop new technology and to profit from vaccines.
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2022/02/24/us-bioweapons-labs-in-ukraine-what-will-russia-find-in-the-labs/
https://govtribe.com/award/federal-contract-award/definitive-contract-hdtra114c0120