CIA Whistleblower Testifies That Agency Covered Up Lab Leak at Behest of Faucihttps://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/05/13/cia-whistleblower-testifies-that-agency-covered-up-lab-leak-at-behest-of-fauci-n3814901James Erdman III is testifying today before the US Senate Homeland Security Committee, and he is blowing the whistle on the CIA's willingness to bow to Dr. Anthony Fauci's insistence that COVID did not originate in lab leak, likely tied to gain-of-function research.
No surprise there, I have to say. At the time, the CIA agreed to withhold its conclusion that the most likely explanation for COVID's spread was a lab leak, although it has subsequently stated that the lab leak was likely.
BOMBSHELL: Here is the entire opening statement from CIA whistleblower James Erdman lll. He testifies that Dr. Fauci's role in the COVID cover-up was INTENTIONAL.
He stacked the intelligence community's analysis with conflicted scientists funded by NIAID who pushed the natural origin lie while obfuscating facts around a lab leak from Wuhan, China.
CIA managers retaliated against analysts who refused to go along with the middle-of-the-night rewrite that buried the lab leak conclusion.
This tale, as far as I can tell, is more about the willingness of bureaucracies to cooperate to cover up their own role in disasters than the CIA's participation in causing this particular one. There is no indication that it played any role itself, but rather that it bowed to political pressure from Fauci et al to cover up their own.
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That cover-up had massive implications, though, that go far beyond the mere fact that Fauci and company were trying to hide their not-so-minor "Oops." It became the basis for a massive, politically motivated smear campaign that poisoned our politics. Out of this cover-up came the deplatforming of millions of Americans, the smearing of Republicans for the political benefit of the Democrats, and the gaslighting of Americans and citizens around the world.
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The CIA is blowing its top, attacking Rand Paul and Erdman for conducting a political stunt, although it's not exactly clear what they are disputing. It's certainly not the basic facts of the accusations, but rather that they are being aired publicly and not behind closed doors. Read their statement, and it is all about process, not denying the specific allegations.
Fauci's NIAID provided $$$$ to an NGO that funded, among other efforts, WIV. The DoD also provided $$$$ to that same NGO. So whatever Fauci's degree of pressure on th CIA, the DoD may also have applied pressure.
The cover-up served three purposes: covering up NIAID's and the DoD's poor judgment that funded a disaster; the Dems' anti-Trump lie that pointing out the truth that, at the least, WIV screwed up, disastrously, was racism and xenophobia; the Dems' later anti-Trump lie that Trump was lying about Covid's origin.
