BOMBSHELL: The Biden Administration Buried a Whistleblower Complaint From…

The cover-up is often worse than the crime.

That axiom has rarely been more apt than in the story that emerged this week from the final document dump of outgoing Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, a story about how the Biden administration deliberately strangled a formal intelligence community whistleblower complaint accusing Dr. Anthony Fauci of lying to Congress, routing it away from independent investigators and into the hands of Fauci’s own political allies before it could go anywhere near a prosecutor.

This is not a theory.

This is not a conservative talking point.

This is documented in internal government memos, signed by Biden administration officials, and released this week under official ODNI letterhead.

If even a fraction of what those documents reveal had occurred during a Republican administration, the press corps would have called it the scandal of the decade.

The sequence of events begins in August 2021.

An intelligence community official filed a formal whistleblower complaint alleging that Fauci had provided false testimony to Congress about whether the National Institutes of Health had funded gain of function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Acting Intelligence Community Inspector General Tamara Johnson put the complaint in writing and sent it to Biden’s Director of National Intelligence, Avril Haines, on August 1, 2021.

The complaint stated plainly that Fauci had misled the American people and congressional oversight.

The testimony at the center of the complaint was Fauci’s May 11, 2021, statement to the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, where he said without qualification that the NIH has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute.

He repeated virtually the same claim at a second HELP Committee hearing on July 20, 2021.

Both statements were on the record, both were under oath, and according to the intelligence community whistleblower who filed the complaint, both were false.

Federal law on this is straightforward.

Lying or misleading Congress is a crime.

It is punishable by up to five years in prison.

When such a complaint is filed against a senior official, the standard procedure is to forward it to the congressional committee before which the false testimony was given and to the relevant Inspector General for a formal criminal investigation review, which could then be referred to the Department of Justice for prosecution.

That is what the law requires.

That is not what happened.

What happened instead is what Gabbard’s documents lay out in precise, damning detail. Within days of receiving the complaint, DNI Haines met privately with HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra, Fauci’s direct boss in the Biden cabinet. The DNI’s own general counsel then sent Haines a set of draft talking points on August 16, preparing her for conversations with either Congress or Becerra. Three days later, on August 19, the General Counsel sent a follow-up email recommending that Haines forward the whistleblower complaint not to the HHS Inspector General, not to the Senate HELP Committee, but to Becerra himself.

The email’s stated reasoning makes the coordination explicit. It told Haines that forwarding the complaint to Becerra was appropriate because what we’ve seen is consistent with the point that Secretary Becerra made to you: that this is something they’ve considered and that Dr. Fauci has a point he’s repeated about the NIH not funding gain of function at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Read that again. The DNI’s office was recommending that the disposition of a criminal whistleblower complaint be determined by whether it aligned with the position already stated by the accused official’s own political superior.

The complaint was never forwarded to the Senate HELP Committee. It was never sent to the HHS Inspector General. It was never referred to the Department of Justice. A draft letter to Congress was prepared by the DNI’s office but addressed to the intelligence committees, not to the HELP Committee, the body before which Fauci had allegedly lied and the one that would have had the most direct interest in pursuing the matter. That misdirection, whether intentional or not, ensured the complaint would land before lawmakers with no direct stake in the specific testimony at issue.

The complaint then sat, buried in the political machinery of the Biden administration, for nearly four years. Nobody went to prison. Nobody was charged. Nobody was even formally investigated by an independent body. Fauci continued his appearances on Sunday shows, collected awards, signed book deals, and eventually, on the last day of the Biden presidency, received a sweeping preemptive pardon from Joe Biden himself, a pardon that his legal team had reportedly pushed the White House for aggressively in the final weeks and hours before Trump was inaugurated.

Biden claimed at the time that the pardon was about protecting a loyal public servant from politically motivated harassment. His statement said the pardon should not be mistaken as an acknowledgment that any individual engaged in any wrongdoing. What we now know, courtesy of the documents Gabbard released, is that Biden’s own DNI had received a formal complaint from an intelligence professional alleging that Fauci had committed a federal crime and that the Biden administration’s response was to route that complaint through channels specifically designed to prevent it from reaching independent investigators. In that light, the subsequent pardon looks considerably less like protective generosity and considerably more like the closing of a loop.

The documents also reveal additional and separately damning details about the relationship between Fauci and the intelligence community during the pandemic. A July 2021 internal email reviewed by ODNI officials described Fauci as a subject matter expert with a wealth of knowledge who probably knows better than most who the real coronavirus experts are and documented that intelligence officials used Fauci’s own recommendations to determine which scientists they would consult during the Biden administration’s 90-day COVID origins review. The very process that was supposed to independently assess how the pandemic began was being seeded with experts chosen by the man whose funding decisions were at the center of the inquiry.

This is what a self-serving circular reporting loop looks like in practice. Fauci’s handpicked scientists advised the intelligence community. Those assessments were cited publicly as independent scientific consensus. That consensus was used to discredit the lab leak theory. And when an intelligence professional filed a formal complaint saying Fauci had lied about his role, that complaint was buried by the people who had let him shape their assessments in the first place.