Agents Bribed to Lie About Covid?

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POWERLINE by John Hinderaker 11/17/2025

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/11/agents-bribed-to-lie-about-covid.php

This is one of those stories that seem impossible, but are obviously important if true. FBI Director Kash Patel, appearing on a podcast, reportedly suggested that CIA Director Gina Haspel bribed intelligence officers to go along with the Democrats’ theory of covid origins:

    FBI Director Kash Patel dropped a bombshell during a recent interview with Glenn Beck….
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    Patel reminded Beck that the team briefed Trump based on the intelligence they had. Trump listened, weighed the facts, and acted. Then the usual suspects stepped in: “Then enter Fauci and the media. ‘No, no, no. The Chinese would never do this. It’s not about… No, no, it didn’t come from that.’ Then the wet bat thing came out and some other goofy whatever.”
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    Patel then pointed out the bombshell that dropped just weeks ago. According to him, former CIA Director Gina Haspel “authorized six case officers and intelligence analysts to be paid off so that they would change their assessment on COVID originations.”

    “That’s a CIA institutional decision to spend taxpayer dollars to lie to the world where COVID came from because it fit the narrative that Fauci and the media wanted out there, along with Gina Haspel, because she didn’t want Donald Trump to get the credit for reading the intel right and making the hard right decision,” he said.