, The Washington Post; We will need a coronavirus commission
"We will need a commission on par with the 9/11 Commission when the immediate emergency is over. The commission will need full subpoena power and access to any government official and document it needs. Among the questions we need answered:
- When was the president briefed?
- What was he told about the coronavirus?
- What steps did he take to prepare for the virus?
- What other officials in the executive and legislative branches were aware of the threat? What did they do?
- Why, until this week, was Trump downplaying the magnitude of the threat?
- What precisely was the sequence of events that held up distribution of testing kits?
- What resources were available that could have been tapped had governors, mayors and ordinary Americans understood the extent of the threat?
- Who, if anyone, in government profited from advance knowledge of the threat?
- What government structures or policies did the current administration make that impacted the response, either positively or negatively?
- Why was the Defense Production Act not activated sooner?
- Why were wealthy and famous individuals given tests when ordinary Americans still could not access them?"
