India, June 19 -- Tulsi Gabbard, on her final day as US Director of National Intelligence (DNI), levelled serious accusations against former Chief Medical Advisor to the US President, Dr Anthony Fauci.

She claimed that Fauci funded 'gain-of-function' research at China's Wuhan Institute of Virology, influenced intelligence assessments on the origins of COVID-19, and misled the Congress when under oath. Notably, the outbreak from Wuhan spread across the world and became the COVID pandemic as we know it today.

"Today, on my final day as Director of National Intelligence, I'm releasing never-before-seen communications and documents exposing how Dr. Fauci provided millions in US taxpayer dollars to fund dangerous gain-of-function research at...