Terry Adirim was the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense and one of a number of Department of Defense (DOD) officials responsible for arguably the most damaging crime ever committed against our own military. She issued a one-page memo that violated DODi 6200.02, section 564 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, and 10 U.S. Code § 1107a - Emergency use products. An Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) product could not be mandated on service members without proper informed consent allowing for refusal of EUA per 21 USC 360bbb-3 and a written waiver from the President of the United States.
Her memo claimed that Pfizer BioNtech vaccine was the same formulation as Comirnaty and could be used interchangeably. Comirnaty was never made available for use in the United States during the pandemic, making the only vaccine available to service members, Pfizer’s EUA injection. In the interest of honest discourse, Feds for Freedom spent a lot of time searching for Comirnaty during the pandemic… Not one to be found by April 2022 when our research project was completed and loaded onto to YouTube.
The memo released on 24 August 2021 claimed that FDA guidance allowed them to issue the EUA product and Comirnaty interchangeably for the purpose of vaccinating Service members in accordance with the Secretary of Defense Memorandum, “Mandatory Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccination of Department of Defense Service Members.”
Eric Coulter put out a detailed X post that described how DOD’s leadership and bureaucracy tried to cover up the bait and switch. It was clear that every leader, all the way up to POTUS (assuming he was even coherent) knew they were illegally mandating an experimental product. He also accurately pointed out that the half-hearted effort at a legislative solution with the passage of the 2023 NDAA, never really made soldiers whole, nor did it hold military leaders accountable.
Feds For Freedom would like to shine a little light on the problem and help our military members and the American public see these flaccid excuses for military leaders held accountable.
In March 2023, a F4F volunteer submitted a FOIA to the Office of the Secretary of Defense asking for key Operation Warp Speed (OWS) documents. David Soldow was the Executive Secretary for the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) and he was a key player in execution and implementation of OWS. Every document, every contract, and every decision went through his hands.
We didn’t ask to see everything in his email… Just the OWS documents. Previously, he had information related to his role in OWS included on his LinkedIn profile, but it seems it has been removed more recently. We don’t blame him… I wouldn’t want it on my resume either.
DOD came back with a few clarifying questions in March of 2023, but things went silent for a long time. After corresponding with DOD in March and September 2023, in November 2023 F4F filed in federal court. In December 2023, DOD responded and it was absurd from the beginning. Let me share a particularly laughable section…
Defendant admits that it is a federal agency. Plaintiff’s allegation that Defendant “oversaw key elements of [Operation Warp Speed] is a statement of opinion, which requires no response. To the extent a response is required, Defendant lacks knowledge or information sufficient to form a belief as to the truth of this allegation, given the subjectivity and indeterminacy inherent in the term “key elements.”
Huh? What!?! DOD thinks their alleged role in OWS is just our opinion.
Our attorneys discussed the production requirements with DOD representatives and unfortunately could not come to an agreement. DOD responded with a number of absurd arguments. They described a records search of one individual over a specified period of time as overly burdensome. They also considered our request for OWS records as comparatively voluminous as a request for records on the war in Iraq and Afghanistan during 25 months at the height of the campaign.
OWS was a unique project and should have only involved a tiny percentage of DOD’s entire workforce. It is a public health project vice the execution of combat operations. Furthermore, DOD is huge, arguably the largest employer in the United States. DOD is saying they don’t have the manpower to execute a FOIA request. Our legal team responded, it detailed the absurdity of DOD’s claims, and we are awaiting next steps from the judge.
I have a feeling our FOIA will uncover a whole lot about OWS contracts, legal justification for pushing EUA products, and maybe a little bit about DOD’s involvement in censorship. This isn’t a quick process and even if we get documents, we are probably going to have to continue litigation to ensure they all aren’t just a pile of blacked out pages, but we will persevere.
If you want to help, please donate to F4F. We have one other DOD FOIA that we will look to litigate if we don’t recieve reasonable answers by December 2024. Stay tuned F4F members!