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Ridley answers every question you ever had about the COVID virus, its origins, and the cover-up.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ODNI News Release No. 11-26
June 18, 2026
WASHINGTON D.C. — Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Anthony Fauci, as head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), provided millions in US taxpayer dollars to fund dangerous gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV)—work which is now widely viewed as the source of the unintentional lab leak that sparked the pandemic.
Today, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is releasing never-before-seen communications and documents exposing how Fauci worked with politicized career leadership in the Intelligence Community (IC) to suppress the truth about his actions, the virus’ lab-leak origins, and his role in directing U.S. funding for this dangerous research that caused immeasurable harm and countless lost lives. These documents expose Fauci’s direct role in influencing and manipulating IC assessments on COVID-19, and how Fauci lied to Congress in 2024, when under oath he denied knowledge of or participation in discussions with intelligence officials about viral research.
You can view the communications and documents HERE.
“The COVID-19 pandemic caused tremendous hardship and pain for millions of our fellow Americans and for countless people around the world. After years of lies, censorship, and cover ups, the American people deserve transparency, truth, and accountability,” DNI Gabbard said. “The tactics used to hide the truth are straight from the deep state playbook: politicized self-serving leaders like Dr. Fauci covered up their own wrongdoing and abuses of power, manipulated intelligence, lied to Congress, and undermined a duly elected President by restricting his access to vital facts needed to keep the country safe. It’s time the American people learn the real story.”
The materials released today are a result of DNI Gabbard’s yearlong declassification review in support of President Trump’s maximum transparency mandate. During this process, ODNI officials gathered testimony from multiple IC whistleblowers who reported retaliation for challenging the IC’s manipulation of intelligence on the virus’ origins. This unveiled a clear pattern of suppressing dissent, silencing critics, and burying evidence that undermined IC integrity and disserved the American people.
Fauci’s close IC relationships enabled him to assume three key roles during the pandemic that shielded him from scrutiny as he wielded outsized influence.
Fauci’s Relationship With The Intelligence Community Drove Intelligence & Public Narratives
Throughout the pandemic, Fauci and politicized leaders within the IC created a self-serving circular reporting loop. He provided hand-picked NIAID-funded scientists to advise the IC. This input shaped official intelligence assessments, which were then publicly cited as scientific consensus to refute the lab-leak theory.
According to hundreds of reviewed emails, the IC almost always incorporated his recommendations. Fauci promoted a fraudulent paper, whose publication he helped prompt, as legitimate information for Intelligence Community consideration. Senior analysts praised Fauci not as a “policymaker,” but as an unbiased guide to “the real coronavirus experts”—while ignoring experts who might dissent from Fauci’s narratives.
Fauci Lied to Congress
The correspondence released today directly contradicts Fauci’s 2024 testimony to the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. In that hearing, while under oath, Fauci was repeatedly asked whether he spoke to “FBI, CIA, DIA or any U.S. intelligence agency concerning viral research” before, during, or after the pandemic. Fauci repeatedly dodged the questions, before falsely stating, “not to my knowledge about COVID.”
Retaliation Against Truth-Seekers
Testimony from multiple whistleblowers reveals intelligence analysts who challenged Fauci’s COVID-origin conclusions faced threat of retaliation, were marginalized, and often suffered career setbacks. This silenced dissent and fostered a culture where truth was sacrificed to conformity and credible evidence was buried.
The following are examples from whistleblower accounts that Director Gabbard has referred to the Intelligence Community’s Inspector General.
Nix died in 1972, and his granddaughter continued her late dad’s legal war to recover his film — which she’s convinced is worth more than $900 million as it may hold the key to exposing one of history’s biggest cover-ups.
Now a federal judge has ruled that the battle over the film can go forward — and the footage might finally see the light of day.
The Nix film captured first lady Jackie Kennedy climbing on the back of the presidential limo immediately after her husband was shot — and a view of the fence.
The film could reveal evidence that gunman Lee Harvey Oswald didn’t act alone — thanks to new optic technologies and AI, according to Scott Watnik of Wilk Auslander LLP, a lawyer for Nix’s granddaughter, Linda Gayle Nix Jackson.
“It’s really the only one that is known to have captured the grassy knoll area of Dealey Plaza right as the assassination occurs,” Watnik told The Post, noting that the film could bolster a 1978 House Select Committee on Assassinations report that found Kennedy “was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy.” That panel obtained the Nix film and played a role in the legal saga over its return.
“If we subjected the camera-original film to optics technology of 2026, we can certainly capture details in the film that we never could have captured when … the committee had the film in 1978,” he said.
The FBI, in its own 1980 analysis, found inaccuracies in that report, which relied on acoustic analysis to try to pinpoint the location of a potential second shooter.
During the last six decades, the Nix film has been held by the FBI, news outlet United Press International, Congress, and a private firm called the Aerospace Corporation in Los Angeles, which analyzed it and says it handed it back to the National Archives.
The National Archives in 1988 said it had only a copy of it — and the legal discovery process set forth by Court of Federal Claims Judge Stephen Schwartz in a Jan. 15 order gives lawyers a chance to try to force the government to reveal information about its stewardship.
The family’s case rests on the 5th Amendment, which states that the government shall not take property without providing “just compensation” in return.
But the 1992 JFK Records Act law granted the government ownership rights to JFK assassination evidence, while setting up a process for release of records to the public.
But the family’s massive monetary demand could run into trouble — given that an arbitration panel valued the Nix film’s more famous counterpart, the 8mm film shot by dress maker Abraham Zapruder, at $16 million back in 1999, calling it “a unique historical item of unprecedented worth.”
Lawyers for Nix’s granddaughter cite that value as a benchmark for what Nix’s film might have been worth back then — but want their client to get a whole lot of interest, based on the government’s longtime possession.
“If one were to say this film is worth what that one is worth as of ’92, and you apply 32 years of compound interest at a quarterly compound basis, you start to get numbers in the many, many hundred of millions,” Watnik said. One “preliminary estimate” his team reached was $930 million.
It’s not just about getting money to Nix’s heirs — Nix’s son, Orville Nix Jr., died in July, slowing proceedings.
Lawyers for Nix Jackson say they want to use the court case and potential trial that would come if no settlement is reached to force new information from the government about how and where it has stored materials, including fragments of JFK’s brain, and recordings of internal communications by Dallas cops the day of the shooting.
“This is evidence of a murder, after all, of our nation’s president,” said Watnik. “So it’s even more important that we know where these records are.” The Nix family’s lawyers aren’t willing to take the government’s responses at face value. Among the Kennedy records they say have become “unlocated” over the years: the original copy of the supplementary autopsy report of the president, up to three photos taken at the autopsy, and Kennedy’s brain.
The National Archives and Records Administration did not respond to a request for comment.
The 1964 Warren Commission report concluded that Oswald acted alone in killing Kennedy from the Texas School Book Depository as the president’s motorcade drove past, but conspiracy theorists have long dismissed its conclusions.
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