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.”
Rat Face fauci didn’t care that he was destroying families and businesses with his experiment. He made millions while the rest of us suffered, and hundreds of thousands died. He didn’t care. All his assets should seized and then slam him into a maximum federal prison with hard core criminals for the duration of his life.