Updated · Office of the Director of National Intelligence · Jun 19
Gabbard Releases 100s of Fauci Emails, Accusing Him of Lying to Congress
Updated
Updated · Office of the Director of National Intelligence · Jun 19
Gabbard Releases 100s of Fauci Emails, Accusing Him of Lying to Congress
3 articles · Updated · Office of the Director of National Intelligence · Jun 19
Summary
Hundreds of newly declassified emails and documents released by DNI Tulsi Gabbard allege Anthony Fauci shaped U.S. intelligence on COVID-19’s origins and falsely denied such contacts in 2024 congressional testimony.
The ODNI says Fauci, while leading NIAID, steered intelligence officials toward a natural-origin narrative by supplying hand-picked experts and promoting a paper the release calls fraudulent, despite U.S. funding for Wuhan bat coronavirus research.
Multiple whistleblowers told ODNI analysts who backed the lab-leak hypothesis were threatened with retaliation, sidelined or fired; Gabbard referred those accounts to the intelligence community inspector general.
The release caps a yearlong declassification review under President Trump’s transparency order and expands earlier disclosures about Fauci’s role in COVID-origin reviews and U.S. support for more than 120 foreign biolabs.