Tulsi Gabbard, serving as the U.S. Director of National Intelligence (DNI), has initiated an official investigation into Dr. Anthony Fauci’s role in funding research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, specifically focusing on so-called “gain-of-function” research and its possible connection to the origins of covid.
This probe is being conducted by a newly established team within the intelligence community called the Directors’ Initiative Group (DIG). Gabbard is working alongside National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Jay Bhattacharya and Health and Human Services (HHS)Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on this matter.
In an interview Thursday on former Fox News host Megyn Kelly’s podcast, The Megyn Kelly Show, Gabbard also said she wants to end so-called gain-of-function research in which scientists alter pathogens to make them more transmissible or deadly so they can study them.Gabbard, like many in the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress, believes the pandemic was caused by a laboratory accident in Wuhan, China, rather than by the virus spilling over from animals to people, as many virologists say is more likely.The administration last month launched a web page making the case that the pandemic originated in a Chinese lab and accusing former NIH official Anthony Fauci of covering it up.
The intriguing interview with Kelly touched on a wide array of important issues related to the origins of Covid:
It appears like Fauci is going under the microscope.
Megyn Kelly: If that’s true, if it was Peter Daszak’s research with the Wuhan so-called bat lady that caused this pandemic, then we did fund it… Anthony Fauci helped fund the pandemic, a charge he denied over and over to Senator Rand Paul’s questioning.Tulsi Gabbard: That’s right. Under oath. Exactly…
Gabbard also warned that gain-of-function research continues in biolabs worldwide, including those funded by the U.S. in Ukraine. She recounts being criticized for raising these concerns at the start of the Russia-Ukraine war, emphasizing the ongoing risk of future pandemics if such research is not halted.
“We are working with Jay Bhattacharya, the new NIH director, on this, as well as Secretary Kennedy, looking at the gain-of-function research that, in the case of the Wuhan lab, as well as many others around the world, many of these other biolabs were actually US-funded and led to this dangerous kind of research that, in many examples, has resulted in either a pandemic or some other major health crisis….”I got attacked, and I think you saw this, we’ve probably talked about on your show before, when I warned against US-funded biolabs in Ukraine when the Russia-Ukraine war kicked off, for this very reason—who knows what kinds of pathogens are in these labs, and if released, could create another COVID-like pandemic…. “And for that, I was called a Russian asset, you know, trumpeting Putin’s talking points, all of this nonsense, simply for speaking the truth and stating facts that, by the way, are still on the US Embassy Ukraine’s website today about how the US has funded these biolabs in Ukraine.”
Kelly inquired why the U.S. intelligence community was slow and divided in acknowledging the lab-leak theory, a topic I have covered extensively for Legal Insurrection. Gabbard attributes this to the politicization of intelligence, where conclusions are sometimes shaped to fit policy objectives rather than facts.
Kelly: Why was the intelligence community so reluctant to just say that? Under Joe Biden, they were split. The FBI eventually said, “Well, we kind of think it was the lab,” and Department of Energy said “lab,” but then the other agencies were like, “No, we think more natural origin,” long past the point when it did not look like natural origin…Gabbard: It’s a good question and I don’t have a specific answer to it, but I want to point to the contrast of how in some cases they are very unwilling to express a view or a certain opinion on something, and in other cases, even if they don’t have decisive or conclusive evidence, they’re very quick to come to an assumption. This gets to the real heart of the challenge here and the problems that we’ve seen: the politicization of intelligence to meet a certain objective or to influence a certain policy…
Brave of Kelly for asking solid questions, and to Gabbard for being transparent. I look forward to seeing what DIG digs up, especially related to Fauci and his attempts to hide the likely gain-of-function origin. We may see exactly how good the Biden 14-year pardon is.
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