CIA subpoenas and whistleblower allegations over COVID-19 origins probe

On 2026-05-13, CIA whistleblower James Erdman III testified before the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee in Washington, D.C. He accused Anthony Fauci of injecting himself into the intelligence community's COVID-19 origins probe and playing an intentional role in scrapping a 2021 lab-leak announcement plan.