‘How Many Times Were We Lied To?’ Fauci & Top Officials Under Fire Over COVID-19 Claims
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Jack Fowler: OK, Victor, just to torture people further with the sound of my voice, here’s the headline: CIA whistleblower alleges cover-up of COVID-19 lab leak intelligence by scientists who repeatedly concluded that a lab accident caused the COVID-19 pandemic, but more senior bureaucrats watered down and suppressed their conclusions.
A CIA senior operations officer testified to Congress on Wednesday. His name is James E. Erdman III. He described under oath, in a hearing called by Rand Paul on Wednesday, a pattern of obstruction that promoted the conclusions of a tight-knit group of virologists close to Anthony Fauci, while downplaying the conclusions of the intelligence community’s own biological experts.