Tulsi Gabbard made sure to leave Washington with fireworks.

Just before stepping down as Director of National Intelligence, she dropped a stack of newly declassified documents that suggest the Biden administration buried the truth about COVID’s origins.

Those documents also shine a harsh light on Xavier Becerra, Joe Biden’s Health and Human Services secretary at the time and now the Democrat pick for California governor.

According to the evidence, Becerra played an essential role in censoring whistleblowers who were ready to expose Fauci’s misleading statements to Congress about gain-of-function research.

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The documents reveal a tangled web of bureaucratic coordination aimed at saving Fauci from public embarrassment and keeping the lab leak theory out of mainstream debate.

Gabbard’s release points to a deliberate effort by senior officials to reroute and suppress a whistleblower complaint that could have dismantled the official narrative about COVID’s “natural origins.”

It all happened as Americans were locked down, businesses were dying, and honest scientists were being smeared for questioning Washington’s preferred storyline.

In the third batch of documents made public on June 18, Gabbard included a letter from DNI General Counsel Chris Fonzone.

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That letter detailed how intelligence officials manipulated an investigation into a whistleblower’s report.

The whistleblower claimed that the intelligence community believed COVID came from a leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and that Dr. Anthony Fauci lied about it to Congress.

Instead of pursuing the truth, the matter was sent straight to Becerra, whose office promptly buried it.

The paper trail points directly to the infamous Senate exchanges between Fauci and Senator Rand Paul in May and July of 2021. Everyone remembers those hearings.

Fauci angrily declared, “The NIH has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute.”

Paul called him out months later, asking if he wanted to retract that statement. Fauci doubled down.

It turns out the whistleblower was ready to testify that Fauci’s answers were false.

But his testimony was killed on Becerra’s desk.

That suppression allowed Fauci’s story to stand unchallenged, shielding the administration from accountability.

Instead of transparency, Becerra’s office launched a watered-down “alternative investigation” that accomplished little more than cutting off funding to EcoHealth Alliance and its president, Peter Daszak, the same group that had funneled U.S. taxpayer dollars to Wuhan.

The move looked impressive on paper, but it let every powerful player walk away untouched.

Meanwhile, Fauci faced no repercussions for misleading Congress or the public.

Documents confirm that he even received a pardon signed by Biden, insulating him from any future legal liability tied to his COVID-era actions.

Gabbard’s release suggests this protective circle was deliberate, coordinated through agencies that should have been hunting for the truth but instead acted as political shields.

Now Xavier Becerra finds his own name stamped all over the latest scandal, and not just related to COVID.

His longtime chief of staff, Sean McCluskie, is already facing federal charges for allegedly conspiring with California Governor Gavin Newsom’s former political adviser to funnel money from Becerra’s dormant campaign fund.

Although Becerra claims ignorance, the optics are horrible for a man running for governor in a state struggling under decades of Democrat corruption.

The irony is thick. California Democrats have spent years preaching about “integrity in government” while their leaders appear to operate by backroom deals.

The same Xavier Becerra who cut off Americans’ access to critical information about COVID origins now wants to run a state that saw some of the harshest pandemic lockdowns in the country.

If Becerra helped kill a whistleblower complaint to protect Fauci, Californians deserve to know before they hand him the keys to Sacramento.

Larry Sanger, cofounder of Wikipedia, first flagged the troubling connections buried in the declassified memos.

His independent research aligned perfectly with Gabbard’s claims that senior Biden officials went to great lengths to stamp out dissent within the intelligence community.

Sanger, no right-wing ideologue, simply found what the legacy media refused to touch.

The documents he examined paint a devastating picture of a government more concerned with managing optics than acknowledging the possibility that a U.S.-funded project in Wuhan may have created a global disaster.

Tulsi Gabbard just released four PDFs that, she says, show that Fauci funded the very research that created COVID-19. I fed Claude the four PDFs. 🧵 It uncovered some never-yet-revealed blockbusters. (The following is all Claude—I am just quoting it.) 1. The IC Inspector…

— Larry Sanger (@lsanger) June 19, 2026

Ordinary Americans who were ridiculed online for doubting the official story now have more reason than ever to feel vindicated.

So far, Becerra has stayed silent while the story explodes online.

Silence may not save him this time.

The notion that a sitting cabinet member rerouted a whistleblower’s testimony to protect Fauci would send shockwaves through any honest government.

For Democrats, it is just one more scandal stacked on a mountain of others they hope voters forget by November.

The situation also exposes how far the White House went to coordinate censorship.

By controlling which theories were “acceptable” and which officials would investigate, Biden’s team successfully hid key evidence from Congress and the public.

The result was years of confusion, mistrust, and scientific gaslighting that damaged America’s credibility abroad and freedom at home.

Now with these declassified papers out in the open, the political fallout is only beginning.

Gabbard’s release confirms what many have long suspected, that the COVID narrative was polished and protected by the same people who claimed to “follow the science.”

As one scandal merges into another, Xavier Becerra’s campaign dreams could turn into a legal nightmare.

And if justice still matters in America, he will be looking for a lot more lawyers very soon.

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