On her last day as Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard released documents exposing how Dr. Anthony Fauci provided millions of taxpayer dollars to fund gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab.
“These documents expose Fauci’s direct role in influencing and manipulating IC assessments on COVID-19, and how Fauci lied to Congress in 2024. When under oath, he denied knowledge of or participation in discussions with intelligence officials about viral research,” Gabbard said in a video statement. “We also received testimony from multiple intelligence community whistleblowers, who reported retaliation for challenging the intelligence community’s manipulation of intelligence on the virus’s origins, once again revealing a clear pattern of suppressing dissent, silencing critics, and burying the truth.”
She explained that Fauci “became the nation’s pandemic pundit, and he publicly pushed lies, disinformation, and censorship using every platform available.”
“We received statements from multiple whistleblowers revealing that the intelligence analysts who dared to challenge Dr. Fauci’s COVID origin conclusions faced threats of retaliation, marginalization, and many suffered career setbacks. For example, a contractor was terminated just days after coming forward to ODNI as a whistleblower. Another example, those who advocated for the lab leak hypothesis or expressed dissenting views were reminded by their managers that leadership would determine which analysts would be promoted and which would not. The message was clear: go along or be punished.”
According to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Fauci’s relationship with the intelligence community (IC) allowed him to be protected from scrutiny during the pandemic. This relationship materialized in three roles: funding coronavirus research, advising the IC, and becoming the nation’s pandemic “pundit.”
The materials released by Gabbard contradict Fauci’s 2024 testimony before Congress.
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) recently shared a timeline of Fauci’s activities with the IC leading up to the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to the timeline produced by Paul, Fauci’s feedback on SARS was included in a National Intelligence Council paper in 2003. That November, he received a CIA report titled, “The Darker Bioweapons Future,” which warned that pathogens could be genetically engineered to have greater risks. These events signify Fauci’s link to the national security and intelligence communities.
Nearly two decades later, Fauci’s links to such communities allowed him to “steer the early COVID-19 origins debate through NIAID-funded experts,” the timeline argues. In March 2020, Nature Medicine published “The Proximal Origin of SARS-COV-2,” which concluded that COVID-19 was “not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus.”
