Gill

Governance, risk, compliance & ethics | MPhil Public Policy candidate | Ella's mum | Falkirk bairn | Cape Town 🇿🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿@gillnie.bsky.social

[Gill @GillianF]

@mark_keohane @SARugbymag Edwill, surely

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@RyanCoetzee Sounds glorious

[Gill @GillianF]

Good game, the #Baabaas weren't a complete walkover at least #Springboks #Barbarians

[Dr. Angela Rasmussen @angie_rasmussen]

Tony Fauci was in charge of an agency that funded research which allows us to develop vaccines in 10 months.

Kennedy cancelled that research and is responsible for thousands of preventable deaths

[Paola Poot @PootDibou]

Fact-check of DNI Gabbard's Fauci claims

📄"Dr. Fauci provided millions in US taxpayer dollars to fund dangerous gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab." ❌

Not supported. The documents show approximately $600,000 went to the WIV via EcoHealth Alliance. The documents do not establish the research was gain-of-function.

📄 "Fauci worked with politicized elements within the Intelligence Community to suppress the truth about his actions and hide the virus' lab-leak origins." ❌

Not supported. The documents show Fauci attended a CIA briefing and recommended scientists and papers. They do not show coordination to suppress anything.

📄 "These documents expose Fauci's direct role in influencing and manipulating IC assessments on COVID-19." ❌

Not supported. The documents show Fauci was consulted and offered views. They do not show him manipulating assessments.

📄 "Fauci promoted a fraudulent paper, whose publication he helped prompt, as legitimate information for Intelligence Community consideration." ❌

Not supported. No document in the release shows this.

📄 "According to hundreds of reviewed emails, the IC almost always incorporated his recommendations." ❌

Not supported. No document in the release establishes a pattern of the IC incorporating Fauci's recommendations.

📄 Gabbard claim: Fauci stated "not to my knowledge about COVID" when asked whether he spoke to intelligence agencies about viral research, and this was a false statement contradicted by the released correspondence. ❌

The "not to my knowledge" quote comes from Fauci's January 8–9, 2024 closed-door transcribed interview.

> Majority Counsel: "Do you know if NIAID grants go through any type of national security review as part of the process?"
> Fauci: "National security review?"
> Majority Counsel: "So, like, through the National Security Council or -or anyone in the intelligence community -"
> Fauci: "Not to my knowledge."

This is Fauci answering whether NIAID grant applications are administratively routed through the NSC or IC for review.

📄 Gabbard claim: Fauci "repeatedly dodged" questions about whether he spoke to intelligence agencies about viral research, before falsely denying it. ❌

False - he acknowledged it at the June 3, 2024 public hearing.

> Questioner: "Before, during, or after the COVID-19 pandemic, did you speak to the FBI, CIA, DIA, or any U.S. intelligence agency concerning viral research of any kind?"
> Fauci: "I can't give you specifics of it, but back in the time of the anthrax attacks, we certainly had a number of briefings by agencies that were intelligence agencies, I don't remember who they were, it could've been any of the above that you mentioned, about the possibility that there were bioweapons that had fallen into the hands of bad actors."
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> Fauci: "No, you heard wrong. I said I did have communication. I was briefed by the intelligence community multiple times during the COVID issue."

📄 "Fauci's actions caused immeasurable harm and countless lost lives." ❌

Not supported. No document in the release establishes any causal connection between Fauci's actions and pandemic deaths.

[Gill @GillianF]

@AndiMakinana Here for it 🙌

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@BlobWarriorUK Who did you blame for train crashes before there was mass immigration lol

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@Theyetty12 @JamesMelville Lol not really a stadium filler

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@BoomertarianN Lol nostalgia

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@CrazyDaysPoster Deutsche

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@Logically_JC They came up to me with tears in their eyes and said sir, can we have a photo

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@Brendennel So frustrating, every call went against them

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@X22Report Lol whatever

[Gill @GillianF]

@afneil The changes to the Reflecting Pool were purely superficial, what were people expecting lol

[Gill @GillianF]

Um that was a try Mr Ref #Bulls #Leinster #URC

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@DNIGabbard Lol this one

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@Brendennel Why though? They've come undone

[Brenden Nel ⚒ @Brendennel]

Cant blame anyone but themselves in first 30. Everything they shouldnt do they did. 2 yellow cards from World Cup winners. A dropped ball leads to a try from a double World Cup winner. Leinster arent this good...Bulls are imploding.