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CIA Whistleblower Testifies Fauci’s ‘Cover-Up’ of Covid Lab-Leak Origin was ‘Intentional’
© 2026 National Review ^ | May 13, 2026 12:42 PM | By Brittany Bernstein

Posted on 05/13/2026 10:11:09 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines

Edited on 05/13/2026 10:15:43 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

The CIA then failed to comply with the DNI DIG’s oversight investigation, refusing to provide necessary information for investigators to understand why analytical standards at the CIA were violated. The CIA also illegally spied on the computer and phones belonging to DIG personnel, along with their investigations and contact with whistleblowers, Erdman alleges.


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Fauci should be in prison and/or tarred and feathered.
1 posted on 05/13/2026 10:11:09 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Fauci will be rotting in hell. He may never face justice on Earth for what he did, but there will be an eternal punishment.


2 posted on 05/13/2026 10:14:19 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Import the third world. Become the second world.)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

We already knew all of that.


3 posted on 05/13/2026 10:17:51 AM PDT by MNnice
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To: Responsibility2nd

He didn’t name any one else.


4 posted on 05/13/2026 10:18:06 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I don’t care about that, I care about him being held accountable now as an example.


5 posted on 05/13/2026 10:18:15 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Unfortunately, Biden made sure that Fauci won’t go to jail. But what he did is criminal. He can be forced to testify truthfully and if he lies, that can be the basis for additional charges. Fauci is a huge lesson in the absolutely massive damage that the Deep State can cause. DOGE was starting to uncover and dismantle it. For some reason, Trump ramped it back. He should have put it into overdrive. If that is all he did in this term, he it would have been a massive accomplishment.


6 posted on 05/13/2026 10:19:37 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
now we know, he's not only a murderer
but a pre-meditated murderer.
7 posted on 05/13/2026 10:22:11 AM PDT by Segovia (https://townhall.com/columnists/kevinmccullough/2025/07/06/fossil-fooled-lives-vs-lies-n2659950)
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To: MNnice

Yeah, but now it’s formally in the congressional record.

That makes it official and SUPPOSEDLY things can now move forward against fauci.....but I have my doubts.


8 posted on 05/13/2026 10:22:20 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America....so great even the people that hate it, won't leave)
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To: V_TWIN

awwwww, really? the most the nadless wonders ever did is investigate and make fund-raising ads....


9 posted on 05/13/2026 10:29:00 AM PDT by Segovia (https://townhall.com/columnists/kevinmccullough/2025/07/06/fossil-fooled-lives-vs-lies-n2659950)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

“The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2”
Nature Medicine
Published: 17 March 2020

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9

“Early appearance of two distinct genomic lineages of SARS-CoV-2 in different Wuhan wildlife markets”
Virological.org
Posted May 2021

https://virological.org/t/early-appearance-of-two-distinct-genomic-lineages-of-sars-cov-2-in-different-wuhan-wildlife-markets-suggests-sars-cov-2-has-a-natural-origin/691


10 posted on 05/13/2026 10:32:40 AM PDT by Pelham (President Eisenhower. Operation Wetback 1953-54)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

no, none of this will ever amount to anything. No one is going to jail. The reason being, if people knew the truth, and they knew that the United States government was responsible, then the government would be hit with a civilization-destroying amount of lawsuits. There isn’t enough money in the known universe to pay those off.


11 posted on 05/13/2026 10:41:03 AM PDT by MarlonRando
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Fauci is one of CHINA’S favorite recruits.


12 posted on 05/13/2026 10:48:28 AM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

More CIA bullshit. There was NO “lab leak”. It was a deliberate release by US deep state/CIA/China.

China and DC desperately needed to stop the Trump economy that was running like a freight train. They say “lab leak” because they HAVE TO. Anyoen saying lab leak is lying to your face.

They tried to tell it is was a natural zoonotic disease, from bats, from bat soup etc. Lindsey Graham was on Hannity every night yammering on about wet markets.
That got proven false and we learned it was invented at Chapel Hill and Eco Health Alliance, it was part of a biological weapons program,... and that Fauci moved it to China where it was beyond any future administration’s regulators.

So when they admitted it was man made and all... what were they going to say? That they deliberately released it? Of course not, so that means all they CAN say is lab leak.

Lab leak is their fallback lie....


13 posted on 05/13/2026 11:28:55 AM PDT by DesertRhino (When men on the chessboard, get up and tell you where to go…)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Of course Covid was intentional, it was created yes CREATED in a Chinese lab on Fauci’s order in order to get rid of Trump..that is why Dems the very first thing they did was pass required mail in voting for ALL elections, that was their priority during a pandemic, THAT, so yeah we all know what was up


14 posted on 05/13/2026 11:49:00 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: DesertRhino

EXACTLY..and I guarantee you this, NO Dem got vaccinated for Covid, I want to see proof that ANY OF THEM were legit vaccinated for Covid, and I guarantee you they ALL had HCQ and Ivermectin in their medicine cabinets..that is why whenever Trump mentioned something that might assist in treating Covid, the media and Dems all were outraged, why, simple, they did NOT want Covid to be cured, not til AFTER the election when they had it in the bag


15 posted on 05/13/2026 11:52:42 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Nobody will be held accountable. Disgusting really.


16 posted on 05/13/2026 12:49:54 PM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: Pelham

From Nature.com Published: 09 November 2015

A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses shows potential for human emergence

https://www.nature.com/articles/nm.3985.pdf

https://www.nature.com/articles/nm.3985

At the second link, note the authors. Two are from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

From the Abstract:

“Using the SARS-CoV reverse genetics system2, we generated and characterized a chimeric virus expressing the spike of bat coronavirus SHC014 in a mouse-adapted SARS-CoV backbone. The results indicate that group 2b viruses encoding the SHC014 spike in a wild-type backbone can efficiently use multiple orthologs of the SARS receptor human angiotensin converting enzyme II (ACE2), replicate efficiently in primary human airway cells and achieve in vitro titers equivalent to epidemic strains of SARS-CoV. Additionally, in vivo experiments demonstrate replication of the chimeric virus in mouse lung with notable pathogenesis. Evaluation of available SARS-based immune-therapeutic and prophylactic modalities revealed poor efficacy; both monoclonal antibody and vaccine approaches failed to neutralize and protect from infection with CoVs using the novel spike protein. On the basis of these findings, we synthetically re-derived an infectious full-length SHC014 recombinant virus and demonstrate robust viral replication both in vitro and in vivo. Our work suggests a potential risk of SARS-CoV re-emergence from viruses currently circulating in bat populations.”

They claim this is not an indication of the Lab origin of the virus, but it sure looks like it, right down to the ACE II attachment point. The Wuhan connection is right there also, in the research team.

I know you can cut yourself on Occam’s Razor, but this looks like the origin of the virus to me.

Implications: This wasn’t a leak, but a calculated release, timed to wreck the economy in an election year and to provide the excuse for remote forms of voting which can easily be manipulated through fraud and packing ballot boxes. Note, too, millions of voters allegedly voted for Biden who have not been represented in vote totals in any other election.


17 posted on 05/17/2026 11:41:44 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (Stand Fast! God knows what He is doing!)
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If the IVM/Doxycycline/Zinc or HCQ/Azithromycin/Zinc protocols had been allowed to be shown as effective treatments, the vaccine manufacturers would have lost their Emergency Use Authorizations.
Billions of dollars hung in that balance, and the regimens were resoundingly smeared in the media (now supported by pharma ads), and the Medical Industry even went so far as to conduct studies (designed to show failure) on late stage patients administering only HCQ to most, and HCQ and Azithromycin to a few.

Since the purpose of HCQ in the regimen was to act as an ionophore to get Zinc into the cells to disrupt viral replication, administering the ionophore without Zinc supplementation was like sending empty boars to the Beach of D-Day.
The Zinc was essential to the regimen, and because numerous elderly patients had been eating ‘healthy’ (a diet deficient in red meat, the main source of zinc in ordinary diets), elderly and institutionalized patients were especially susceptible to the virus.

Studies done since 2005 indicated that Zinc ions were effective in vitro and in vivo at stopping the original SARS virus.
One from 2011: Zn2+ Inhibits Coronavirus and Arterivirus RNA Polymerase Activity In Vitro and Zinc Ionophores Block the Replication of These Viruses in Cell Culture
https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1001176


18 posted on 05/17/2026 12:07:07 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (Stand Fast! God knows what He is doing!)
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To: Smokin' Joe; wardaddy

The first known appearance of SARS occurred in 2002-2003.

A mortality rate of 10%.

Most Americans don’t remember it because it was confined to China and there were only around 8,000 total cases.

The initial cases began among food service workers who handled wildlife. Horseshoe bats were identified as a reservoir of the virus and the likely source of the outbreak.

There were attempts to create a vaccine for it, but they were dropped when the virus died out.

Samples of this virus exist in a lot of labs. If someone wanted to weaponize SARS this would do a lot more damage than SARS-2 with its much lower mortality rate.

American virus hunters had access to information on the first cases of SARS-2 in late 2019. There were already two lineages circulating. The main commonality among the patients was that most shopped at either of two markets that sold live game. Occam’s Razor in that circumstance points to a supplier of live animals to two separate markets.

SARS and SARS-2 are primarily thought of as respiratory, but they are also enteric. The virus gets shed in stools like polio virus does, and you can catch it from poop. Anyone handling infected animals was a potential Patient Zero, whether in food markets or the Wuhan lab.

Here’s a 2004 PubMed paper on that first known SARS episode

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7086556/


19 posted on 05/17/2026 2:48:44 PM PDT by Pelham (President Eisenhower. Operation Wetback 1953-54)
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If you haven’t, read the paper I linked from 2015. Yes, they used SARS (”a mouse-adapted SARS backbone”) and spliced in the spike protein, creating a chimera virus.

I fully believe that virus to be at least the initial form of SARS-CoV-2, and two of the researchers from the team were from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

It was created in 2014 in Chapel Hill, NC, USA, and sent to the Wuhan Institute of Virology when gain of function research was banned here.

That trail is easy to follow and doesn’t require bats passing on and mutating a virus from other critters (a pangolin?) living 600 miles away. Occam’s Razor.

The whole ‘wet market’ story is a smokescreen.

Bottom Line: Our tax dollars bought COVID.


20 posted on 05/18/2026 7:38:39 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (Stand Fast! God knows what He is doing!)
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