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Tulsi Gabbard said on Friday, her final day as director of national intelligence, that she had declassified and released documents concerning Dr. Anthony Fauci. The records accuse Fauci of directing millions of dollars in U.S. taxpayer funds to gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab and working with the U.S. intelligence community to suppress information about COVID-19 origins.
Gabbard announced the release in a post on X, saying the documents exposed what she described as Fauci's role in funding "dangerous gain-of-function research" at the Wuhan lab, hiding the virus' lab-leak origins and lying to Congress under oath in 2024.
"It's time you know the truth," Gabbard said, directing readers to ODNI.gov.
In the post, Gabbard said Fauci "worked with the Intelligence Community to suppress the truth about his actions and hide the virus' lab-leak origins."
Gabbard said the documents show Fauci worked with what she called "politicized elements" within the U.S. intelligence community to suppress information about his actions and hide the origins of the virus.
"The tactics used to hide the truth are straight from the deep state playbook," Gabbard said, according to a New York Post opinion piece.
The column said Gabbard's release accused Fauci of causing the COVID-19 pandemic, engaging in a cover-up about the origin of the virus in China and lying to Congress.
The column also said Gabbard claimed Fauci's "close relationships" with the intelligence community "shielded him from scrutiny as he wielded outsized influence."
Gabbard said Fauci was a "behind-the-scenes adviser" who, along with his selected experts, pushed the intelligence community to endorse a natural animal-origin theory for the virus.
In the opinion piece, the New York Post criticized The Washington Post for publishing a 9,000-word article about Gabbard two days after the document release, but ignoring Gabbard's Fauci-related document release. The column also noted that other left-leaning mainstream outlets did not cover the release either.
The column said The Washington Post article accused Gabbard of taking instructions from a Hindu "cult leader" described in the headline as her "guru."
The New York Post opinion piece said Republican Sen. Rand Paul had again sent criminal referrals to the Justice Department against Fauci over alleged perjury in 2024.
Paul wants former President Joe Biden's 11-year blanket pardon for Fauci challenged in court, citing its use of an autopen and its retrospective nature.
According to the column, Fauci's pardon stretches back to Jan. 1, 2014, the same date as Hunter Biden's retrospective blanket pardon.
The pardon covers Fauci's oversight of NIH/NIAID funding of gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab through EcoHealth Alliance.
The New York Post column said EcoHealth Alliance, a now-defunct nonprofit based in Manhattan, received millions of dollars in grants from Fauci's organization.
EcoHealth founder Peter Daszak's largest donor was the Department of Defense, which gave him more than $40 million for the purpose of "combating weapons of mass destruction."
The article also cited a former EcoHealth employee, who requested anonymity, as saying in August 2021 that Daszak had been "approached by the CIA in late 2015" to help access the Wuhan lab.
Daszak later told House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer that he had been contacted by the CIA and other intelligence agencies, though he did not say when.
The New York Post opinion piece cited a Harvard Medical School study published in June 2020 that examined satellite images of five Wuhan hospitals.
The study, the column mentioned, found "a steep increase" in hospital traffic volume starting in August 2019 and peaking in December 2019.
The column said the study also found that between September and October 2019, five of six hospitals showed the highest traffic levels, coinciding with increased Baidu searches for "diarrhea" and "cough."
The New York Post column linked the timing to questions about whether the intelligence community knew of evidence of a possible lab leak before the outbreak was reported publicly.
The New York Post opinion piece said Gabbard left the director of national intelligence role because of her husband's illness.
President Donald Trump installed Bill Pulte as her interim successor while the confirmation process for Jay Clayton, Trump's nominee for the role, continued.
The piece also cited Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who described the matter last week as "among the most consequential crimes in human history."
The New York Post article said that despite efforts by Gabbard and Paul, there was a possibility that nobody would be held accountable.
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