The Series

Investigations

Each piece is built entirely on primary documents and holds to a single rule: the record does the talking. Published work is listed first; the rest are in production as the archive deepens.

Published

01Live

Three Days in February

The dated record of the Proximal Origin paper — from a private warning that the virus could "look engineered" to a published conclusion that no lab scenario was "plausible."

Origins & the Lab-Leak Question
02Live

What the Grant Actually Funded

Read from the program's own progress report and the NIH's own admission: the EcoHealth grant, the WIV chimeras, and the humanized mice that "became sicker."

Funding & Gain-of-Function
03Live

The Six-Foot Rule

Six feet governed a year of American life. Under oath, Fauci said the number "sort of just appeared" and "wasn't based on data" — and a careful test of the "made up the rules" misquote.

Pandemic Policy & Communication
04Live

Gain-of-Function, Defined and Redefined

In 2021 Fauci said the Wuhan work "is not gain-of-function." Under oath in 2024 he explained the denial turned on a definition the public never heard — the three meanings of one phrase.

Funding & Gain-of-Function
05Live

Fauci and the Agencies

On 4 June 2021 the CIA's WMD center briefed Fauci on COVID origins. The declassified readouts show he told the spies which scientists to call — and rebut the louder claim of secret HQ visits.

The Intelligence Community Interface
06Live

The Complaint

An IC whistleblower alleged Fauci lied to Congress. It reached the DNI and the oversight committees — and the IC Inspector General could not substantiate it. Why it failed is the story.

Congressional Testimony & the Record
07Live

Schools

"Fauci closed the schools" is the wrong answer — under oath he said he didn't, and urged reopening. The harder truth: the machinery that kept them closed, against the evidence.

Pandemic Policy & Communication
08Live

The Split

Same virus, same classified record — and for three years the US intelligence agencies couldn't agree where COVID-19 came from. By 2023 the DOE and FBI assessed a lab incident; the NIC and four others, natural; the CIA couldn't decide. All agreed it was not a bioweapon.

The Intelligence Community Interface
09Live

The Other Stream

Yes, USAID money reached the Wuhan Institute of Virology — but the GAO's line-by-line audit shows it funded pathogen surveillance and sample sequencing, not the chimeric-virus work, which was NIH's. The auditor draws the line the slogans erase.

Funding & Gain-of-Function
10Live

The Pardon

Biden's last-day pardon of Fauci is real — full, unconditional, reaching to 2014 — and it forecloses any prosecution, which critics are right to weigh. But it is a public document whose author called it no admission of guilt, and a cover-up needs a hidden crime this record never produced.

Accountability & the Record

In production