The Reading Room

July 25, 2026 – Fauci’s personal diary reveals that as early as January 31, 2020, he was told by top virologists that the virus’s furin cleavage site raised real doubts about a natural origin, with about half the scientists on that initial call believing it looked “constructed.” Despite this early private uncertainty, Fauci spent the following years publicly and confidently dismissing the lab leak theory while insisting the science was settled. The diary also documents his private frustration and defensiveness over gain-of-function funding questions tied to EcoHealth Alliance and the Wuhan Institute of Virology — even as he told Congress under oath that no such research had occurred.

July 24, 2026 – Records released today reveal that Dr. Anthony Fauci, the highest-paid federal official in the U.S. government, stacked up cash prizes worth hundreds of thousands of dollars during COVID, with NIH’s number two official serving as his personal awards manager and his taxpayer-funded staff writing the nominations for him. Some of the prizes came from American institutions, but the largest came from a foreign institution that wired him $900,000.

July 24, 2026 – Undeclared coronavirus materials moved between U.S. and Chinese labs as far back as 2018 — years before COVID-19. A courier was caught twice, three years apart…first with a few hidden vials, then with 132 more and a laptop that wasn’t his.

July 23, 2026 – On April 10, 2026, Dr. Ralph Baric sat for a voluntary transcribed interview with Chairman Paul’s staff. Dr. Baric, of the University of North Carolina, is one of the scientists behind the DEFUSE gain-of-function proposal, a key contributor to NIAID funded projects in Wuhan, a member of the Biological Sciences Experts Group, and one of the world’s preeminent coronavirologists. He confirmed the furin cleavage site insertion was his job. He confirmed he ran an experiment that undercuts the core scientific defense of natural origin. And he still can’t explain how he ended up on the February 1, 2020 call with Dr. Fauci and the authors of “Proximal Origins.”

July 22, 2026 – Internal NIH emails, stemming from a PETA lawsuit over the agency’s comment-hiding practices, show officials admitting they used keyword filters to erase public comments referencing the Wuhan Institute of Virology and ivermectin, and discussing “neutral” filters broad enough to suppress conversation about “COVID vaccinations generally.”

July 21, 2026 – Newly released Slack messages from the authors of “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2” show the scientists privately debating the evidence central to their public conclusions, assigning real odds to a lab origin, and coordinating with U.S. intelligence, while the NIH promoted their paper publicly. Kristian Andersen put the odds of a lab leak at 30%; Eddie Holmes estimated 20%, later revised to 10%. As the DEFUSE proposal leak broke, the group discussed the need to “stay off email” and “carefully curate” messages for FOIA records.

July 21, 2026 – On April 15, 2025, Chairman Rand Paul formally requested that the DOJ Inspector General investigate whether Peter Daszak and Ralph Baric were ever designated, used, or compensated as confidential human sources or informants by the FBI or any other DOJ component. 

July 20, 2026 – Newly released documents show CBP built a formal targeting action to question President of  EcoHealth Alliance, Peter Daszak on his return from the WHO’s COVID-19 origins mission — before the FBI stepped in and asked agents to stand down.

June 6, 2026 – Newly released documents trace Dr. Anthony Fauci’s connections to the national security and intelligence apparatus back to 2003, showing his involvement in reviewing CIA and National Intelligence Council reports on bioweapons threats years before COVID-19. The release includes the email exchange in which Fauci directed Kristian Andersen to report furin cleavage site concerns to the FBI and MI5, records of classified national security briefings provided to Fauci in 2021, and a Marine Corps DARPA fellow’s inspector general memo alleging that a 2018 EcoHealth Alliance DARPA proposal — never publicly disclosed — describes the origins of SARS-CoV-2.

June 5, 2026 – Newly released documents show a decade of warnings and workarounds preceded the January 2026 monkeypox smuggling attempt by NIH virologists Vincent Munster and Claude Kwe, who were charged in June with conspiracy to smuggle monkeypox into the United States and making false statements to federal law enforcement.

October 30, 2025 – Newly obtained records show the CIA and ODNI reached out to Dr. Ralph Baric in September 2015 to discuss a “possible project” on coronavirus evolution and natural human adaptation — contact that predates his role in the 2018 DARPA DEFUSE proposal and a January 2020 request that he brief ODNI’s secretive Biological Sciences Experts Group on the emerging outbreak, where he raised the possibility of a lab origin weeks before that theory was publicly dismissed. Chairman Paul’s letter to Director Gabbard includes both emails as attached exhibits.