COVID-19 killed more than 2,700 Granite Staters. But when a CIA whistleblower appeared before the Senate Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday to testify about an alleged cover-up of the virus’s origins, New Hampshire U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan was a no-show.
Hassan joined the committee’s other Democrats in boycotting the hearing chaired by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) CIA whistleblower James Erdman III recounted his evidence that the federal government helped bury intelligence pointing to a laboratory accident as the likely origin of the virus.
“Intelligence community leaders and senior analysts downplayed the possibility that the COVID pandemic originated as a result of a lab incident,” Erdman testified. “Intentional or not, the IC’s actions resulted in a cover-up, wasted resources, and a failure to properly inform policymakers.”
Paul said Erdman’s testimony shows CIA scientific analysts repeatedly concluded between 2021 and 2023 that a laboratory leak was the most likely origin of COVID-19, but that those conclusions were “buried, softened, or withheld from Congress.”
“The American people have never received a full accounting of where it came from, what our government knew, or why they had to fight their own government to find out,” Paul said in his opening statement.
COVID-19 killed more than 7 million people worldwide. In New Hampshire, the official toll is 2,758 deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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