Tulsi Gabbard didn’t wait for Rand Paul’s investigation to start building the case against Fauci. On her final day as Director of National Intelligence, she released it herself. “Today, on my final day as Director of National Intelligence, I’m releasing never-before-seen communications and documents exposing how Dr. Fauci provided millions in U.S. taxpayer dollars to fund dangerous gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, work which is now widely viewed as the source of the unintentional lab leak that sparked the pandemic,” Gabbard said.
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She Accused Him of Lying Under Oath
Gabbard didn’t stop at the funding question. She went straight at Fauci’s own congressional testimony. “Now Fauci didn’t stop there,” she said. “He blatantly lied to Congress under oath during his 2024 testimony to the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, denying that he ever spoke to any intelligence agency about COVID. Now, the correspondence I’m releasing today directly contradicts his sworn testimony.”
That’s about as direct as an accusation gets from a sitting director of national intelligence. Gabbard wasn’t speculating about Fauci’s motives. She was pointing to specific communications her office had spent months searching through intelligence community holdings to locate, records she says show a documented conflict between what Fauci told Congress and what actually happened.
Whistleblowers Say They Paid a Price Too
Gabbard didn’t limit her release to Fauci’s own conduct either. She described a pattern of retaliation against intelligence analysts who dared to push back on the official COVID origin story. “The tactics that were used to hide the truth are straight from the deep state playbook,” she said, describing whistleblowers who faced marginalization and intimidation for supporting the lab-leak theory rather than the natural-origin narrative officials preferred.
That’s the part of Gabbard’s release that connects directly to what Rand Paul’s committee would later uncover in Fauci’s own diary. Paul’s team found entries showing Fauci privately entertaining doubts about COVID’s natural origin as early as January 2020, doubts he spent years publicly dismissing with total confidence. Gabbard’s intelligence community whistleblowers were describing the institutional machinery that kept those doubts from ever reaching the public. Two separate investigations, working from two completely different sources, arrived at strikingly similar conclusions.
To Be Fair, Not Everyone Agrees With Her Characterization
It’s worth noting that Gabbard’s framing of the 2024 hearing has faced real pushback. Legal analysts at Lawfare argued that the transcript of that hearing doesn’t fully support Gabbard’s claim that Fauci “repeatedly dodged” questions before falsely denying any intelligence agency contact. That’s a legitimate point of dispute, and it deserves acknowledgment rather than getting brushed aside.
What that pushback doesn’t erase, though, is the broader documented pattern. Even setting aside the specific wording dispute over one hearing, Gabbard’s underlying claim, that Fauci funded gain-of-function research now widely linked to COVID’s likely origin, and that internal communications conflict with parts of his public testimony, lines up with what multiple separate investigations have since found, including Paul’s own diary release months later.
A Case That Kept Building After She Left Office
Gabbard’s decision to release these documents on her literal last day in office wasn’t a farewell gesture. It became the opening chapter of a much longer reckoning. Fauci has since pleaded the Fifth Amendment 111 times before Paul’s Senate committee, an extraordinary retreat from a man who had testified before Congress more than 250 times over his career without ever needing that protection.
Gabbard saw the pattern early and put her name on it while she still had the authority to declassify the evidence. What’s followed since, from Paul’s diary release to Fauci’s own courtroom silence, reads less like a coincidence and more like the same story continuing to unfold exactly the way she said it would.
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