A CIA officer alleging intelligence officials downplayed evidence that COVID may have started in a Wuhan, China, lab and accusing Dr. Anthony Fauci of improperly influencing the government’s review of the virus’ origins testified in front of Congress on Wednesday.
As reported on Thursday’s AM Update, Special Operations Officer James Erdman III appeared, under subpoena, before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee chaired by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY).
Sen. Paul opened the hearing by arguing the COVID origin debate was shaped by a small circle of government officials, scientists, intelligence advisers, and outside experts who he says were presented to the public as independent voices despite overlapping relationships and potential conflicts of interest.
One example? The Biological Sciences Experts Group (B-SEG). The senator argued some of the scientists involved in advising the government had also worked in fields directly tied to the research at the center of the COVID origins fight.
“Dr. Ralph Baric collaborated with Dr. Zhengli-Li Shi in Wuhan to create gain of function coronaviruses. But Dr. Baric was also part of B-SEG and an active consultant to intelligence agencies on the origins of COVID-19 pandemic,” Paul explained. “Likewise, Peter Daszak received hundreds of millions of dollars from the U.S. government and worked with Dr. Shi also on these gain of function experiments. Daszak was even sent to China with the WHO to investigate...
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