On her last day as DNI, Tulsi Gabbard declassified intelligence documents showing that internal dissent about the lab-leak hypothesis existed — and was never communicated to the public. What the documents contain, and what it means.
On May 13, 2026, CIA officer James Erdman III testified before the US Senate: Fauci had intentionally influenced the intelligence community’s COVID origins analysis. The CIA responded with a statement calling the hearing ‘political theater’ — and in the same sentence confirmed that COVID ‘most likely’ originated from a lab. Erdman names February 3, 2020 as the first date of influence on the intelligence community. Two days after the February 1 conference call.
