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DAVID MARCUS: Democrats love whistleblowers, unless they attack Saint Fauci

Not a single chair on the left side of the dais was occupied during the explosive Senate hearing on Wednesday

By David Marcus Fox News

Published May 14, 2026 11:04am EDT

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Dr. Fauci's role in COVID cover-up was 'INTENTIONAL,' CIA whistleblower says

CIA whistleblower James Erdman III says the cover-up of the COVID pandemic stemmed from Dr. Anthony Fauci and argues scientists and analysts were skewed from the start.

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It was an amazing sight in the Senate on Wednesday, as the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, led by its chairman, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., held an explosive hearing featuring a CIA whistleblower testifying on COVID origins, and not a single Democrat bothered to even show up.

Every chair on the left of the dais sat empty as high-ranking CIA official James Erdman outlined the duplicity and lies, not just of the government during COVID, but especially of disgraced former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci, which is precisely why the cowardly Democrats took the morning off.

According to Erdman, suppression of the lab leak theory, now widely accepted as how the COVID pandemic began, "was significantly influenced by Anthony Fauci, injecting himself into the IC [intelligence community]."

What followed was a detailed description of how, at every turn, Fauci put scientists in oversight positions in place who not only backed up his wet-market theory, but in some cases were arguably complicit in the creation of COVID and the subsequent coverup.

WHO IS JAMES........

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