BREAKING: Newly Declassified Documents Released By The ODNI Allege Anthony Fauci…

Outgoing Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard used her final hours in office to release what she described as never-before-seen communications and documents alleging that Dr. Anthony Fauci directed millions of dollars in United States taxpayer funding toward gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, actively worked with politicized elements within the intelligence community to suppress the lab leak theory, and lied to Congress under oath during his 2024 testimony before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic.

The document release, published by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on June 18, came on what Gabbard said was her final day in the Trump administration ahead of her scheduled departure at the end of June.

In a statement accompanying the release, Gabbard framed the disclosure as the culmination of a yearlong declassification review conducted under President Trump’s maximum transparency mandate and said the American people had waited long enough to know the truth about how the pandemic began and how their government responded to it.

Gabbard’s announcement on social media was unsparing in its accusations.

She said the newly released materials expose how Fauci provided millions in United States taxpayer dollars to fund what she called dangerous gain of function research at the Wuhan lab, how he worked with politicized career leadership within the intelligence community to suppress the truth about his actions and hide the virus’s lab leak origins, and how he lied to Congress while under oath.

The statement was among the most direct official accusations ever made by a sitting senior intelligence official against a former federal health official.

The ODNI press release accompanying the document dump alleged specifically that Fauci, while serving as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, directed funding through grants awarded to EcoHealth Alliance, the nonprofit organization that served as the conduit for American money flowing to researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

The ODNI’s statement characterized the research funded through that arrangement as now widely viewed as the source of the unintentional lab leak that sparked the pandemic, language that goes considerably further than any prior official United States government statement on the origins question.

Among the documents released was an August 2021 communication referencing a whistleblower complaint that alleged Fauci had provided false testimony to Congress related to the conduct of gain-of-function research at the National Institutes of Health.

The declassified materials also include what the ODNI describes as evidence of a self-serving circular reporting loop in which Fauci’s close relationships within the intelligence community allowed him to hand-pick scientists who advised government assessments on the virus’s origin, with those assessments then being cited as independent scientific consensus against the lab leak hypothesis, even though some of the scientists involved had significant financial relationships with Fauci’s own agency.

That circular structure is not a new allegation.

Congressional investigators, particularly on the House side under former Representative Brad Wenstrup of Ohio, had previously documented much of the scaffolding of this narrative using subpoenaed documents, testimony, and communications obtained through oversight authority.

What Gabbard’s release purports to add is intelligence community material that has never before been made public, including whistleblower accounts from CIA analysts who say they faced retaliation for challenging the official suppression of the lab leak finding within the agency.

The ODNI said several of the whistleblower allegations contained in the released materials have been formally referred to the Intelligence Community Inspector General for review, a step that gives the accusations a procedural weight beyond Gabbard’s own statements and suggests that at least some of the underlying claims will be subject to independent examination even after her departure from the director’s role.

The documents reportedly contradict specific statements Fauci made during his 2024 congressional testimony, in which he denied knowledge of or participation in discussions with intelligence agencies about viral research.

The released communications, according to reporting on their contents, show interactions between Fauci and intelligence community officials that Gabbard’s office argues directly contradict that testimony, providing the basis for the allegation that he lied to Congress under oath, a potentially serious legal matter if referred for prosecution.

Fauci has categorically denied all such allegations throughout the years of congressional and media scrutiny that have followed the pandemic.

His position has been consistent: the NIH funding that flowed through EcoHealth Alliance to the Wuhan Institute of Virology did not meet the regulatory definition of gain of function research, and he has never attempted to manipulate intelligence assessments or suppress any finding regarding the virus’s origins.

Whether the newly released documents change that calculus or simply reframe the same disputed facts in a new light is something that independent researchers and legal analysts will work through in the days and weeks following the release.

The scientific and intelligence debate over COVID’s origins has never been fully resolved, and Gabbard’s release arrives into that unresolved landscape.

The CIA moved in January 2025 to a low confidence assessment favoring a research-related origin for the virus while stressing that both a lab leak and natural zoonotic transmission remained plausible explanations and that no definitive new evidence had driven the shift.

Other intelligence agencies within the broader community have offered assessments ranging from natural origin to lab leak, none at high confidence.

The FBI has leaned toward a lab leak with moderate confidence.

No unified intelligence community conclusion has ever been reached.

What Gabbard’s release attempts to do is shift that contested picture significantly by placing into the public domain material that, if accurate and representative, would suggest the debate was not simply a genuine scientific uncertainty but an actively managed information environment in which the most powerful figure in American public health worked systematically to ensure a specific conclusion prevailed regardless of what the underlying evidence showed.

The timing of the release on Gabbard’s final day in office has drawn comment from observers across the political spectrum.

Gabbard announced in May 2026 that she would step down at the end of June to support her husband Abraham through treatment for a rare bone cancer, a deeply personal reason for departure from what has been an often turbulent and unconventional tenure as the nation’s top intelligence official.

Using her final official day to drop a major document release of this kind ensures that the disclosures will be associated with her name and legacy in a way that might not have been possible through a quieter exit.

Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, who has pursued Fauci relentlessly on these questions for years, praised the release and called on the Department of Justice to open a criminal investigation based on the newly declassified materials.

Paul has long argued that Fauci committed perjury during congressional testimony and that the statute of limitations on certain charges has been allowed to run by agencies that were uninterested in accountability.

Whether the new documents provide the kind of specific, datable evidence of false statements needed to sustain a perjury case is something federal prosecutors would have to assess.

Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri, who also serves on oversight committees that have examined the origins question, called the release long overdue and said the documents confirmed what investigators had suspected for years but were unable to fully establish through the available unclassified record.

Hawley reiterated his call for a broader accountability reckoning that would encompass not only Fauci but the broader institutional response that shaped public policy for years based on what he characterized as a deliberately managed narrative.

The release also arrives against the backdrop of a prior document dump by Gabbard announced on June 12, in which the ODNI claimed to have uncovered evidence of long standing United States government funding for more than 120 biological laboratories across more than 30 countries, including facilities in Ukraine.

That release generated its own controversy and suggested that Gabbard was using her final weeks in office for a series of maximally consequential declassification actions on topics she clearly views as among the most important unresolved questions of the Trump era.

EcoHealth Alliance, the nonprofit at the center of the funding dispute, had its federal grants suspended and then revoked during the Trump administration’s first term, a decision that was itself contested in federal court.

The organization’s president, Peter Daszak, has denied that any research conducted through EcoHealth’s Wuhan partnerships constituted gain-of-function work as defined by federal regulations, a position consistent with Fauci’s own statements but one that a growing body of scientific and congressional opinion has challenged.

The legal exposure Fauci potentially faces from the newly released documents depends heavily on what they specifically show about the dates, content, and context of his communications with intelligence officials relative to the statements he made to Congress in 2024.