Former DNI John Ratcliffe says the CDC Director, the Secretary of State, and the Director of National Intelligence agreed that COVID-19 was most likely created in the Wuhan lab, but Dr. Anthony Fauci labeled the lab origin as a "conspiracy theory" because he funded the lab:

"You had the top diplomat, the top of the intelligence community, the top public health official all telling you with some confidence level that the most likely origin of this was a lab leak...

Some of those individuals, including Dr. Fauci, were promoting the idea that this was natural origins, and notwithstanding the language which was read, they were referring to this publicly as a conspiracy theory in certain conversations and interviews...

The best evidence of that is their own conversations, which say that they didn't want unwanted attention to the relationships that were taking place between Western virologists and those working within the Wuhan Institute of Virology and funding sources for some of that research."

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The former Director of National Intelligence agrees with the former CDC Director that Dr. Anthony Fauci lied to Congress under oath about funding gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab:

"Some of Dr. Fauci's testimony is inconsistent with some of the intelligence that we have that remains classified as well as inconsistent with some information that is publicly available."

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Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State David Feith says gain-of-function research poses a species-level risk to human life:

"Gain-of-function technologies of the kind that emerged in the last 10-15 years where the deadliest viruses can be fused with the most infectious ones appear to pose a species-level risk to human life...

Once a virus of sufficient infectiousness and deadliness escapes a lab, there may be nothing humanity can do to stop it...

This is the stunning tragedy of those experts who stigmatized even the notion of a lab leak..."

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Shot:

Chaser:

Sounds like the stories of Rove, Bushies et al being behind DeSantis may have some meat on those bones.