EXCERPT:
GABBARD: "Before the Covid pandemic, Dr. Fauci as head of The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases provided millions in U.S. taxpayer dollars to fund dangerous gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, work which is now widely viewed as the source of unintentional lab leak that sparked the pandemic. Now, in support President Trump’s maximum transparency mandate, today, on my final day as Director of National Intelligence, I am releasing never before seen communications and documents that expose exactly how Fauci worked with politicized career leadership in the intelligence community to suppress the truth about his actions, the virus’s lab leak origins, and his role in directing U.S. funding for this dangerous research that caused immeasurable harm and countless lost lives. Now, 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 discussion with intelligence officials about viral research. 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.”
