A two-decade veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency told the Senate on Wednesday that Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former White House COVID-19 adviser, was involved in pushing the national security community into publicly saying the COVID-19 pandemic had a natural origin instead of coming from a lab leak.
James Erdman, a career CIA operations officer, told the Senate homeland security committee that Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, was involved in shaping the intelligence community report on the virus’s origin to fit the narrative that it had a natural origin.
More than 1 million Americans died during the pandemic following the emergence of the novel coronavirus from Wuhan, China, in late 2019.
Republicans in Congress, particularly Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chairman Rand Paul (R-KY), have investigated whether the virus originated at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China as a result of a lab leak, as opposed to China’s official narrative of an animal-to-human spillover event.
No Democrats participated in the hearing, which was called by Paul and the Republican majority.
Much of the hearing revolved around Fauci’s role in developing the 2021 Intelligence Community Report, in which findings from multiple intelligence agencies were synthesized to yield slight but conflicting conclusions toward a lab-leak event.
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