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Exclusive | DNI Tulsi Gabbard probes US funding to more than 120 biolabs abroad

Nypost · · 912 words · By Josh Christenson
Political Accountability/Administration Conflict National Security and Biosecurity Gain-of-Function Research Ethics
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13 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is investigating more than 120 biological laboratories abroad that were funded by US taxpayer dollars for decades”
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While evidence confirms Tulsi Gabbard is the DNI as of 2025, there is no evidence in the provided search results confirming an investigation into 120 biological laboratories.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of episodes for The Daily Show, a late-night talk and satirical news television program airing on Comedy Central, during 2025 (the series' 30th season). Jon Stewart serves as host once …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Daily_Show_episode…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Senate Intelligence Committee report on Russian interference in the United States presidential election, officially titled Report of the Select Committee on Intelligence United States Senate on Ru…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senate_Intelligence_Committee_…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — During Donald Trump's second presidency, the Trump administration took a series of actions using the government to target his political opponents and civil society. News outlets described his actions …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Targeting_of_political_opponen…
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“President Trump’s executive order on so-called “gain-of-function” research”
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Multiple web search results confirm the existence of Executive Order 14292, 'Improving the Safety and Security of Biological Research,' which restricts funding for dangerous gain-of-function research.
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web search NEUTRAL — By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose. Dangerous gain-of-function research on ...
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/05/impr…
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web search NEUTRAL — On May 5, the Trump administration issued Executive Order 14292, "Improving the Safety and Security of Biological Research," which effectively ends federal funding for "dangerous gain-of-function rese…
https://www.lathropgpm.com/insights/trump-executive-order-re…
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web search NEUTRAL — Sec. 3. Stop Dangerous Gain-of-Function Research. (a) The Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), in coordination with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and t…
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-14…
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“the foreign labs extend into more than 30 countries”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of general information about the United States and unrelated Wikipedia entries; no specific data on the number of countries with US-funded labs was found.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Israel Alexander Englander (born September 30, 1948) is an American billionaire hedge fund manager. In 1989, he founded his hedge fund, Millennium Management, with Ronald Shear. The fund was started w…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Englander
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — U.S. Route 30 or U.S. Highway 30 (US 30) is an east–west main route of the United States Numbered Highway System, with the highway traveling across the Northern U.S. With a length of 3,112 miles (5,00…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Route_30
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — U.S. Route 30 (US 30) is a United States Numbered Highway that runs east–west across the southern part of Pennsylvania, passing through Pittsburgh and Philadelphia on its way from the West Virginia st…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Route_30_in_Pennsylvania
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“several had received funding in the past through a Department of Defense program that sought to dispose of weapons of mass destruction after the end of the Cold War”
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Wikipedia and official DTRA/State Department sources confirm the Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) program was designed to secure and dispose of WMDs following the end of the Cold War/dissolution of the Soviet Union.
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web search NEUTRAL — When some is used without a number, most commentators feel that somewhat is to be preferred. Their advice is an oversimplification, however; only when some modifies an adjective, usually a comparative…
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/some
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web search NEUTRAL — It'll be some time before we meet again. It was some years later when they next met. We discussed the problem at some length.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/some
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web search NEUTRAL — You use some to emphasize that a quantity or number is fairly small. For example, if something happens to some extent, it happens a little.
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/some
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“More than 40 of the biolabs under review are located in Ukraine”
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The search results mention 'ODNI 2.0' reducing bloat by 40%, but do not provide evidence regarding the number of biological labs in Ukraine being reviewed.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2019 Trump–Ukraine political scandal arose primarily from the discovery of U.S. president Donald Trump's attempts to coerce Ukraine into investigating his political rival Joe Biden and thus potent…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Trump–Ukraine_scandal
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Daniel Patrick Driscoll is an American politician, businessman, lawyer, and former military officer who has served as the 26th United States secretary of the Army since 2025. He also served as the act…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_P._Driscoll
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud (born 31 August 1985), also known as MbS, is the de facto ruler of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, formally serving as Crown Prince and Prime Minister. He is the heir apparen…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_bin_Salman
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“The research, which is part of the Defense Department’s Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) Program”
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Official sources from DTRA and the State Department, as well as Wikipedia, confirm that biological threat reduction and research are part of the Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) Program.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) is both a defense agency and a combat support agency within the United States Department of Defense (DoD) for countering weapons of mass destruction (WMD; ch…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Threat_Reduction_Agenc…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) is a counterproliferation program of the United States government, initially aimed at the post-Soviet states. As the dissolution of the Soviet Union appeared immine…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nunn–Lugar_Cooperative_Threat_…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Soviet Nuclear Threat Reduction Act of 1991, 22 U.S.C. § 2551, was chartered to amend the Arms Export Control Act enacting the transfer of Soviet military armaments and ordnances to NATO marking the c…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Nuclear_Threat_Reductio…
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“The Biden administration denied the existence of US-owned or US-operated “chemical or biological laboratories in Ukraine,” dismissing the claims as Chinese and Russian propaganda in a March 9, 2022, statement”
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Multiple web search results indicate that the Biden administration denied the existence of US-owned or operated biological labs in Ukraine in early 2022, characterizing such claims as propaganda.
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web search NEUTRAL — Are there biological research labs in Ukraine or not? The Biden gang admitted to the existence of biolabs on Tuesday but then changed their story on Wednesday.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/not-fast-biden-gang…
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web search NEUTRAL — The Biden administration denied any involvement whatsoever in the programme.In January 2022, Ukraine purchased more than 50 similar devices that can be used to apply biological formulations and toxic …
https://sputnikglobe.com/20220415/ukraine-labs-bioweapons-ca…
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web search NEUTRAL — the Biden Admin and MSM coordinated.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/11/how-right…
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“Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland... said: “Ukraine has biological research facilities which, in fact, we are now quite concerned Russian troops, Russian forces, may be seeking to gain control of.””
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of results for Queen Victoria and a TV show; there is no evidence of testimony from Undersecretary Victoria Nuland in the provided set.
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web search NEUTRAL — Victoria is a British historical television drama series created and principally written by Daisy Goodwin, starring Jenna Coleman as Queen Victoria. The series premiered in the United Kingdom on ITV o…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_(British_TV_series)
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web search NEUTRAL — Victoria was the daughter of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (the fourth son of King George III), and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. After the deaths of her father and grandfath…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Victoria
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web search NEUTRAL — Victoria: Created by Daisy Goodwin. With Jenna Coleman, Tommy Knight, Adrian Schiller, Jordan Waller. The early life of Queen Victoria, from her ascension to the throne at the tender age of 18 to her …
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5137338/
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“Last May, Trump signed an executive action to ban all federal funding for the gain-of-function research in China, Iran or other nations that don’t exercise proper oversight”
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“more than $1.4 billion being spent on such experiments outside the US between 2014 and 2023”
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“Between 2014 and 2021, US-funded experiments on bat coronaviruses at the now-infamous Wuhan Institute of Virology were also found by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to have violated grant terms by making the viruses 10,000 times more infectious”
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“Dr. Anthony Fauci... wrote in a 2012 scientific paper titled “Research on Highly Pathogenic H5N1 Influenza Virus: The Way Forward.””
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“Secretary of War Pete Hegseth”
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