Based on the emails and the report that The Intercept recently released, it looks more like a money-laundering operation in which the NIH laundered money through non-profits to reduce culpability.

Everyone knew that when Francis Collins, Fauci's boss at the NIH, resigned a week or two ago that something was coming. They just weren't sure exactly what it was going to be. The journalists who are allowed to think for themselves were talking about it. If you want to maintain that this was all on the up-and-up, then by all means do so, but do so knowing that more is on the way.

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