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unbiased your favorite source of unbiased news and legal analysis welcome back to unbibiased politics. Today is Thursday, May 14th. Let's talk about some news. If you're watching on YouTube, you will see. I have a bandage on my nose. I did have to get Mo's surgery. I know a ton of you have had Moes surgery before. You wrote to me on social media telling me everything will be okay. Everything is okay. I'm happy

to report. But yeah, my face just hurts a little bit. It's a little swollen and I have a bandage.

So that's what that is. Don't forget to go get your skin checked. Very, very important.

Okay. Let's jump into the news. Yesterday, a CIA whistleblower testified before a Senate committee about the origins of

COVID, and more specifically whether parts of the U.S. intelligence community downplayed or

buried evidence that pointed toward a possible lab leak. So the whistleblower's name is James

Erdman, the third. He's a senior operations

officer in the CIA. And if I had to sum up his testimony in one sentence, it would be this.

Despite the lab leak theory being labeled a conspiracy theory in the early days of the pandemic,

it was actually taken much more seriously

inside parts of the intelligence community than the public was led to believe. So he essentially

said that inside the intelligence community, there were analysts and experts who from the beginning

thought that COVID more likely resulted from a lab leak than natural origins. But these

analyses were either buried or rewritten by other experts. So they never reached the public. And

Erdman said that a major reason for this, a major reason that they were buried or rewritten,

had to do with the role of Dr. Fauci, who not only served as the director of the

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, but had close ties and access to the

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