Just before Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard left her position to care for her dying husband, she declassified evidence that the United States government funded more than 120 biological research laboratories across 30-plus countries — including Ukraine — conducting research on hazardous and highly contagious pathogens, including Gain-of-Function research. On June 12, 2026, the DNI's office released the whole thing. Slides, receipts, the works.
That's a whole lot of "misinformation" turning out to be true.
Remember 2020? 2021? 2022? If you so much as typed the words "U.S. biolabs" on social media, you got slapped with a fact-check label, shadow-banned, or nuked off the platform entirely. You were a conspiracy theorist. A Russian asset. A danger to public health. Turns out you were just early.
Gabbard said that "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." Not "misled." Not "provided incomplete context." Lied.
Dr. Fauci — America's favorite "so-called health professional" — spent years telling us there was nothing to see here. No biolabs. No Gain-of-Function. No taxpayer dollars flowing to foreign laboratories playing with deadly pathogens in countries where oversight is, let's say, optional. Every single one of those denials just aged like milk in July.
President Trump signed Executive Order 14292 on May 25, 2025, directing the Intelligence Community to dig into this. Gabbard delivered. Her office has now issued new guidance for increased IC collection on overseas laboratories, including details on clinical trials being conducted in these facilities. We're not just learning that the labs exist — we're finding out what they were actually doing in them.
The declassified materials identified labs in Ukraine specifically, where the Intelligence Community warned that at least one U.S.-funded biolab likely housed dangerous pathogens and remained vulnerable to Russian threats during the ongoing war. So we were funding labs full of deadly bugs in an active war zone. Spectacular planning.
Here's what drives me up the wall. The same people who screamed "trust the science" for three straight years were actively covering up a global network of 120-plus laboratories doing exactly the kind of research that could spark the next pandemic. They didn't just get it wrong — they got it wrong and then punished everyone who got it right.
The revelation confirms what was previously dismissed wholesale as conspiracy theory. The U.S. government ran these labs under programs like the Cooperative Threat Reduction initiative, and officials maintained for years that it was all just routine public health and disease surveillance work. Nothing to worry about. Just 120 labs in 30 countries doing Gain-of-Function research on hazardous pathogens. Totally normal.
Gabbard called the cover-up what it was — deliberate. Officials dismissed critics as "foreign assets and traitors" rather than answer basic questions about where American tax dollars were going. That's not science. That's a protection racket.
Every single person who got banned, censored, or called a lunatic for asking about U.S.-funded biolabs is owed an apology they'll never get. But at least now we have the receipts — 120 of them, spread across 30 countries.
