Gabbard Claims U.S. Funds 120 Biolabs Across 30 Countries, Names Fauci

Summary

Tulsi Gabbard, in one of her final acts as Director of National Intelligence, announced Friday that her office had identified more than 120 U.S.-funded biological laboratories operating across more than 30 countries, including Ukraine. Her office described the findings as 'never before seen' intelligence, framing the scope of America's overseas biolab network as something that has never been fully disclosed to the public. Gabbard went further than the raw numbers, naming Dr. Anthony Fauci specifically and alleging that the Biden administration threatened individuals who attempted to expose these facilities or the gain-of-function research she claims was conducted there. The Ukraine angle is not new territory: intelligence officials flagged those particular labs as security vulnerabilities when Russia invaded in 2022, and questions about their funding and oversight surfaced repeatedly during that period. What is new, at least in Gabbard's framing, is the assertion that a deliberate cover-up reached the highest levels of the previous administration. The claims arrive without independent corroboration in the cluster, and the characterization of the intelligence as previously unseen is itself unverified by outside parties. The announcement lands at a politically charged moment, combining longstanding conservative grievances about Fauci and pandemic-era science with broader skepticism about U.S. Biological research programs abroad.