What I want to know is why was the CIA paying people to lie about where it came from?
The regime brought Fauci over in a series of meetings as part of the process to intimidate analysts into writing what the regime wanted. For any analyst who didn’t play ball it was insinuated that their job performance report would suffer. Write “properly” and you would be rewarded.
Here’s an article in the Aussie press. It’s just the tip of the iceberg.