Posted on 05/13/2026 1:12:18 PM PDT by Red Badger
A decorated CIA officer testified before the U.S. Senate on Wednesday that Dr. Anthony Fauci deliberately manipulated intelligence community analyses on COVID-19's origins, steering federal investigators away from the lab leak theory and toward a predetermined conclusion of natural origin. The fix was in from the beginning: Fauci hand-picked the experts, shaped the process, and leveraged a network of grant-dependent researchers to make sure the intelligence community reached the answer he wanted. The hearing confirmed what millions of Americans long suspected: The government lied, and it knew it was lying.
CIA special operations officer James Erdman III, a 13-year Agency veteran, appeared publicly for the first time before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee under a subpoena his own agency tried to block. No Democrats participated — not one. Every Democrat on the committee chose to skip a public hearing about a government cover-up that cost more than a million American lives. Make of that what you will. The hearing was chaired by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY).
"Dr. Fauci's role in the cover-up was intentional," Erdman testified. "Dr. Fauci influenced the analytical process and findings by leveraging his position to ensure the IC consulted with a conflicted list of curated subject matter experts, public health officials and scientists."
Fauci's method was to hand-pick the experts the intelligence community would consult: scientists predisposed to reject the lab leak theory, including authors of the now-infamous 2020 "Proximal Origin" paper. Those authors initially believed the virus came from a Wuhan lab, changed their minds after a Zoom call with Fauci and NIH leadership, and at least one received a $9 million grant from Fauci's agency shortly after reversing his position.
CIA analysts reached the same conclusion repeatedly between 2021 and 2023: a lab leak was the most likely origin. Those findings never reached Congress or the public. Erdman rejected reports of direct bribes but said the outcome was arguably worse: "Six of the seven technical experts say, 'Yep, we still think it's a lab leak.' And they were sticking to their guns. Management changed the analytic line."
That management capitulation didn't happen in a vacuum. It happened because the network was already in place, and the people running the investigation were answerable to the same institutional circles that built it.
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The structural conflict ran deep, and it didn't start with Fauci alone. Fauci's agency funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and Fauci was then invited into classified deliberations to assess whether that research caused the pandemic. Researcher Ralph Baric collaborated with Wuhan's Dr. Zhengli Shi to engineer gain-of-function coronaviruses, then sat on the Biological Sciences Experts Group advising the intelligence community on COVID's origins. Peter Daszak received hundreds of millions in U.S. government funding, worked with Shi on the same experiments, and was dispatched to China with the WHO to investigate the outbreak he may have helped cause. This is the network. The same people who funded the research, ran the research, and partnered with Chinese Communist Party-linked scientists were then handed the keys to the investigation. That isn't independent expertise — it's a closed loop, and it was built that way.
"It was not until after the 2024 election that the outgoing Biden Administration directed the CIA to issue an assessment — not because of new intelligence, but so officials could walk out the door claiming there was nothing left to find," Paul said. "That is not analysis. That is a cleanup operation."
The CIA's response was to attack the process rather than the evidence — calling the hearing "dishonest political theater" and dismissing Erdman as a subpoena witness rather than a truth-teller. It was a classic bureaucratic deflection: Impugn the messenger, ignore the message, and hope nobody reads past the first paragraph. It didn't work. The Agency's own statement contained the line that blew up the whole attack: "As the CIA has already assessed, COVID-19 most likely originated from a lab leak." Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) read it aloud and demanded a public apology from CIA Director John Ratcliffe. He didn't get one — but the contradiction was already on the record, in the CIA's own words.
Erdman further testified that the CIA is withholding up to 2,000 pages of classified COVID origins material in violation of a 2023 law requiring disclosure — and that whistleblowers conducting the review were illegally surveilled by the very agency they were investigating.
More than a million Americans died. Children lost years of education. Businesses were destroyed. Vaccine mandates were imposed under emergency authorities built, according to Wednesday's testimony, on an origins narrative the government had reason to doubt from the start. The American people are owed the complete record — and accountability for everyone who helped hide it.
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:More than a million Americans died.:
Or, had the chinese virus entered as cause of death.
many of us remember all the lies about that to puff up the regime’s pogram.
Motorcycle crash, suicide, yup, chinese virus did it.
No one of consequence will be prosecuted.
And, the band played on…..
Gee, did not even get to number 2.
Unfortunately, President Autopen pardoned Fauci “For any offenses against the United States which he may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 1, 2014, through the date of this pardon arising from or in any manner related to his service as Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, as a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force or the White House COVID-19 Response Team, or as Chief Medical Advisor to the President.”
https://www.justice.gov/pardon/pardons-granted-president-joseph-biden-2021-2025
The only way to prosecute him is either (1) under state law (perhaps in Florida or Texas); or (2) drag him before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee under a subpoena, ands if he refuses, prosecute him for contempt or if he appears and lies under oath, prosecute him for perjury (the pardon is only for crimes committed through January 19, 2025).
Oh, we don't do that any more.
Okay, where are the indictments, arrests, trials, executions?!?!?
Oh, Fauci got a presidential pardon from FJB.
I guess it's "all good", then, eh?
*** SPIT ***
Can we at least get an apology? Maybe a reach-around?
Oh, never mind....
RIP DG, DF, DW, PW
“...in any manner related to his service as Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases...”
What he did was OUTSIDE THE SCOPE OF HIS AUTHORITY, so therefore this ‘pardon’ does not cover that crime.............
The communists' refusal to attend these hearings is a superfluous confession of guilt...
Get Fauci into permanent housing at an African black site...
But, but... Fauci’s science, right?
Check post #5 for the possible ways to still get a smackdown of Fauci in spite of the autopardon. Yelling at everyone on this thread does not accomplish anything, other than being annoying...
Did something change after the first half hour? If not, this is a ridiculous headline! Not a single Democrat Senator showed up to the hearing to ask questions. I watched the first half hour or so, and all Republicans were very respectfully asking serious questions.
I think I remember it was cast as a lab leak early on.why would any agency try to reverse this. Seem a long time ago and I never got covid. Did take the shots though here in the old folks home. I got in the sun whenever I could.
Larry
Fingers crossed, but not glued; I sadly expect it'll come to nothing. Most of the nation still reveres that damn evil gnome.
> Yelling at everyone on this thread does not accomplish anything, other than being annoying...
Granted. I didn't see post #5 until after I'd added my comment; they're only a minute apart. Sorry if you're annoyed by my rant. It wasn't directed at you or other FReepers. "Old Man Yells At Cloud".
We'll take a doomer like you as a substitute.
I’m not annoyed-I was just making an observation. If I’m frustrated, I crank up the heavy metal/rock-it works and no one lives close enough out here to be bothered. I think a clever attorney may be able to at least wring enough money out of Fauci on some state charges to burn his investments to the ground-and maybe his ability to make more from speaking engagements as well-make the process the punishment if all else fails...
The Dems boycotted the hearing. Not a single one showed up.
Add Gates, Gyorgy and Klaus to the list with HerrMengeleFauci to be tried then hanged..
Dear CIA: We fart in your general direction.
Signed congress
bbb
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