“Your Government Lied to You”: Gabbard Drops Biolabs Report

With only half a month left in her stint as director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard dropped a report on Friday that accuses the United States of funding more than 120 biolabs around the world, a significant portion of them in a warzone.

“These biolabs include labs in places like Ukraine, which could be at risk of compromise due to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war,” Gabbard said in a video announcement of her report. “In fact, the intelligence community had previously warned that a U.S.-funded biolab in Ukraine likely housed dangerous pathogens and remained vulnerable to longstanding threat of Russian attack, seizure, or damage.”

Based on a four-page report released by Gabbard’s office, 24 biolabs were, or still are, in Ukraine, with a number of them in territory now occupied by Russia. The labs contain anthrax, SWINE fever, ebola, MERS, SARS, the plague, rickettsia, tularemia, and others. This all flies in the face of several mainstream reports and even official U.S. statements denying the existence of these dangerous labs in Ukraine.

Intentional Coverup

Gabbard said the government has “lied repeatedly” about these biolabs. In an accompanying statement, she said:

The information surrounding the existence, history, locations and funding of these US funded biolabs has been intentionally covered up by powerful people falsely claiming that they do not exist and accusing anyone who says otherwise to be foreign assets and traitors to America.

She names one of the officials she accuses of lying. Gabbard:

Despite the obvious potential for catastrophic global impact research on dangerous pathogens in biolabs can have, politicians, so-called health professionals like Dr. Fauci, and entities within the Biden administration’s national security team lied to the American people about the existence of U.S.-funded and supported biolabs, and threatened those who attempted to expose the truth.

Before resigning as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Fauci denied in congressional hearings that the U.S. was involved in gain-of-function research. Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) went after Fauci, accusing him of lying. Out of frustration, Fauci once famously responded to Paul, “You do not know what you’re talking about.”

Interestingly, Fauci received a preemptive pardon “for any offenses against the United States he may have committed or taken part in” between 2014 and 2024. Paul tried to convince the Justice Department to prosecute Fauci, but the statute of limitations expired last month.

On Sunday, in response to Gabbard’s announcement, Paul shared a social-media post from Jeffrey Tucker, an author and columnist for The Epoch Times. In his post, Tucker puts Gabbard’s biolab report in the context of Covid-19. Tucker notes that “Paul’s committee has released the receipts concerning US funding/backing of the manufactured SARS-CoV-2 virus/vaccine as part” of the biolabs program; that Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) “produced definitive evidence that US public health agencies knew of the grave dangers of the [Covid] shot to everyone but said nothing”; and that “many officials are privately admitting/proving that the whole point of lockdowns was to preserve population immunity for the shot and block other avenues toward wellness.”

Fauci wasn’t the only purveyor of lies, assuming Gabbard’s report is accurate.

“Conspiracy Theory”

As soon as Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, concerns about biolabs emerged. But in a March 9, 2022 press release, the U.S. State Department said any rumors of foreign biolabs were Russian “conspiracy theories” and “Russian disinformation.” Around the same time, mainstream media was hard at work magnifying the State Department’s position. “Fact check: False claim of US biolabs in Ukraine tied to Russian disinformation campaign,” blared a USA Today headline. “There are no US-run biolabs in Ukraine, contrary to social media posts,” Politifact told us the exact same day as USA Today published its article.

The interesting thing is that the previous day, then-Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland said during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing that Ukraine had biolabs. She didn’t specify whether those biolabs were funded by the United States, but it was understood that way.

Former CIA analyst Larry Johnson believes the Ukrainian biolabs were set up to eventually target Russia. He recently told Russian state media organ RT, “The evidence that has come out shows the overwhelming focus of this program was on Russia.” He also said the labs were established “at the initiative” of Washington and that the experiments conducted in them “has no role in the defense of a country.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin said shortly after the Russian invasion of Ukraine that part of the impetus was to address those biolab threats.

Catastrophic Risk

Dr. Robert Malone, who worked with biodefense research teams at USAMRIID, DTRA, and MIT Lincoln Lab, wrote extensively about the biolabs on his Substack at the time of the Russian invasion. His response to Gabbard’s report was frustrated relief, saying, “The story of censorship, vilification, targeted delegitimization, followed by eventual vindication is getting a bit old.” Malone said a U.S. Army officer told him “the labs were intentionally destroyed using US fighter/bombers to destroy the evidence due to the risk of being overrun by Russian forces.”

Gabbard’s report also shows a link between the biolabs and several U.S. entities, including the CDC, the USDA, and a number of U.S. universities. She said these experiments pose a “catastrophic global impact” risk. She has given intel agencies new orders to gather more information on these labs around the world.

But not all are convinced. Social media influencer and self-proclaimed investigative journalist Laura Loomer, who has bragged about her connections to and influence over the White House, accuses Gabbard of “directly peddling Russian government propaganda.” She said Gabbard’s staff “recycled published propaganda of the Russian Government in an attempt to spread false narratives while falsely claiming the slideshow she released this week is an original work product of US intel agencies.” Gabbard’s intent, according to Loomer, is to “conflate the biological safety work being done to prevent dangerous uses of Soviet era pathogens (which has been publicly disclosed since 2005 as the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction framework) with bioweapons production.”

Nevertheless, Gabbard says her office will continue looking to locate more of these labs. Her four-page report does not specify what other countries the ODNI believes other U.S.-funded labs are in.

When asked why Gabbard released this report, Johnson posited she’s “taking out the trash before she goes.”