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About a couple of hours ago, ...
ODNI statement excerpts:
"WASHINGTON D.C. — Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Anthony Fauci, as head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), provided millions in US taxpayer dollars to fund dangerous gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV)—work which is now widely viewed as the source of the unintentional lab leak that sparked the pandemic.
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Fauci’s Relationship With The Intelligence Community Drove Intelligence & Public Narratives
Throughout the pandemic, Fauci and politicized leaders within the IC created a self-serving circular reporting loop. He provided hand-picked NIAID-funded scientists to advise the IC. This input shaped official intelligence assessments, which were then publicly cited as scientific consensus to refute the lab-leak theory.
According to hundreds of reviewed emails, the IC almost always incorporated his recommendations. Fauci promoted a fraudulent paper, whose publication he helped prompt, as legitimate information for Intelligence Community consideration. Senior analysts praised Fauci not as a “policymaker,” but as an unbiased guide to “the real coronavirus experts”—while ignoring experts who might dissent from Fauci’s narratives.
Fauci Lied to Congress
The correspondence released today directly contradicts Fauci’s 2024 testimony to the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. In that hearing, while under oath, Fauci was repeatedly asked whether he spoke to “FBI, CIA, DIA or any U.S. intelligence agency concerning viral research” before, during, or after the pandemic. Fauci repeatedly dodged the questions, before falsely stating, “not to my knowledge about COVID.”"
The "receipts" page:
"Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is releasing never-before-seen communications and documents exposing how Fauci worked with politicized career leadership in the Intelligence Community (IC) to suppress the truth about his actions, the virus’ lab-leak origins, and his role in directing U.S. funding for this dangerous research that caused immeasurable harm and countless lost lives. 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.
The materials released today are a result of DNI Gabbard’s yearlong declassification review in support of President Trump’s maximum transparency mandate.
Next major step, I suppose, is about determining whether Biden's pardon of Fauci passes Constitutional muster. Save some room on your schedule just in case, SCOTUS.
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What I find truly amazing is the allegation that 9/11 happened because of a lack of communication and cooperation between the CIA and the FBI that necessitated the Patriot Act. So now we connect the NIH directly to the CIA without the awareness of the President?
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Has the ODNI hired Steven Spielberg to produce Gabbard's videos? They are very professional. However, she is also very photogenic! Her description of the documentation draws conclusions that might have been better withheld. But it is her last day. I enjoy your input here at Ricochet G. Thanks.
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I regret sounding quite so cynical, but I think the answers to your questions are (in order): "No", "yes", and "yes."
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President Trump and his cabinet have two plus years to look for ways to punish Fauci who probably carried out actions that significantly influenced the 2020 election of Biden. I'm not certain that was all bad since it provided an opportunity to learn so much about exactly what was going on. I'm not sure the globalists would be in as much of an exposure mode now if things were different and Trump had continued in the Presidency.
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