So, according to a largely ignored

congressional hearing this week, a CIA

whistleblower named James Erdman III

testified under oath before Rand Paul's

Senate Homeland Security Committee that

yes, COVID-19 came from a laboratory.

Intelligence community leaders and

senior analysts downplayed the

possibility that the COVID pandemic

originated as a result of a lab

incident.

Motives are difficult to define given

the scope of the DIGS review.

Intentional or not, the IC's actions

resulted in a cover-up, wasted

resources, and a failure to properly

inform policy makers.

Dr. Fauci's role in the cover-up was

intentional.

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 health officials, and

scientists.

This included some of the authors of the

paper The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2

and other public health experts who have

been in his orbit for the last 20 plus

years.

Some of the scientists were part of the

Biological Sciences Experts Group or the

BSEG,

an office uh an Office of Director

National Intelligence Advisory Body

whose members often receive considerable

funding from NIAID and public health

agencies.

Obviously.

Now,

none of this is new information if

you've been paying attention at any

point over the last 6 years.

However, due to the fact that a lot of

this information was uh very very very

um inconvenient to learn [music]

uh or access, I'm going to just go ahead

and give you guys the SparkNotes version

because I saw people asking for it, and

I guess you apparently still need it.

So,

there was a nonprofit called the

EcoHealth Alliance, run by Dr. Peter

Daszak.

EcoHealth wanted to do gain-of-function

research on coronaviruses. Specifically,

taking highly contagious bat

coronaviruses and engineering furin

cleavage sites into their spike proteins

in order to make them more capable of

infecting human cells.

Are you Are you with me so far? A furin

cleavage site, for the uninitiated, is

what supercharges a virus' ability to

bind to and enter your cells. It's the

thing that made COVID as transmissible

as it was. It has never been found in

any other closely related coronavirus in

nature, [music] not one.

So,

yeah, how do we know they wanted to do

this?

Well, in 2018, uh Daszak, along with

virologist Ralph Baric of uh University

of North Carolina, and researchers at

the Wuhan Institute of Virology, um

from from the virus, uh co-authored a

grant proposal to DARPA called DEFUSE, d

e f u s e.

The Intercept broke this story in

September 2021.

The DEFUSE proposal describes in

specific detail the insertion of furin

cleavage sites into bat coronaviruses um

to create a chimeric human bat virus.

And the molecular structure of the virus

that it described maps basically

perfectly onto SARS-CoV-2, [music]

aka COVID.

Um DARPA rejected it, primarily because,

and I'm kind of paraphrasing the

internal review here, uh it was a

completely [ __ ] insane contagion

risk.

But here's where it gets damning.

The House Select Subcommittee on the

Coronavirus Pandemic spent two years

reviewing over a million documents and

released a 520-page final report in

December 2024.

What they found, among other things,

were internal emails between Daszak and

Baric about the research being conducted

at the Wuhan Institute of Virology under

BSL-2 biosafety conditions.

A lower security level like the one

you'd use for something like the flu,

but not for engineering novel bat

coronaviruses to be more contagious.

[music]

Baric was furious. His response to

Daszak's assurances about the WIV's

setup was, and I'm quoting directly,

"BSL-2 with negative pressure, give me a

break. Don't insult my intelligence by

trying to feed me this load of BS." The

report also found that Daszak internally

noted he intended to downplay the extent

of the WIV's involvement in the project.

Specifically, to avoid scrutiny from

federal funders back stateside.

In other words,

they pitched this idea to DARPA. DARPA

said,

"What the [ __ ] no."

And

>> [music]

>> what they did instead was take it to a

laboratory in China

and do it at a discount.

Now,

why is this being covered in a CIA

hearing in 2026 rather than

I don't know, the International Criminal

Court?

That's a very good question.

Anyways, what Erman testified to is that

CIA scientific analysts concluded

multiple times between 2021 and 2023

that a lab leak was the most likely

origin of COVID-19.

And every time they reached that

conclusion,

>> [music]

>> it got watered down or buried by

higher-ups in the intelligence

community.

He testified that Fauci reached out to

the intelligence community on at least

two different occasions to push the

natural origin narrative. The same

narrative underpinning the proximal

origin [music] paper, which, per the

White House report, Fauci essentially

prompted into existence in order to kill

the lab leak theory in the press.

[music]

As early as August 12th, 2021, CIA was

internally considering publicly calling

it a lab leak. Five days later, that had

changed.

Erman testified he doesn't know why

because that information is in

classified documents, 2,000 of them,

that the Biden administration's

intelligence chief, Avril Haines,

refused to fully declassify [music]

despite a law Congress passed in 2023

explicitly requiring her to do so.

Now, I can't exactly blame you if you're

hearing all of this for the first time.

Yeah, I learned COVID was a lab leak in

April 2020, and that was not a popular

position to hold back [music] then.

Um as recently as 2023, people were

getting deplatformed for this even on

this platform.

The censorship on this was genuinely

extraordinary. That's just the baseline.

That's where we are.

So, we've established a very, very

direct link between, you know, the

EcoHealth Alliance and doctors Baric and

Daszak and the Wuhan Institute of

Virology and the [music] spread of

COVID-19.

However, the question that remains is

why was Dr. Fauci so involved and so

invested in

>> [music]

>> this

proximal origin theory. Like, why was it

so important to him that

you know, it had to be zoonotic.

In May of 2021, he said the following.

The NIH has not ever and does not now

fund gain-of-function research in the

Wuhan Institute of Virology. The problem

with his statement there is that in 2014

the National Institute for Allergy and

Infectious Disease, which he was the

director of at NIH, that was his job,

very, very, very important position.

That center

uh or that institute, NIAID,

issued a multi-million dollar grant to

the EcoHealth Alliance

specifically to Dr. Peter Daszak

to specifically fund research into bat

coronaviruses.

And of that funding, at least $600,000

was passed on to the Wuhan Institute of

Virology.

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