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The Role of the Military
In the onslaught of new terms and cultural norms, Americans lost sight of a simple question:
There were debates about the influence of Fauci and the tension between state and federal initiatives.
Right- and left-wing media distracted the citizenry with sensational headlines about proles killing grandmas, celebrities singing John Lennon, and nurses choreographing dance routines.
Amid the manic news cycles, nobody seemed to know who was responsible for the mass mobilization of government resources.
At its core, the Covid response was a military operation.
Contingency plans involved martial law, not nationalization of hospitals.
The first White House official to advocate for overturning American society was not Anthony Fauci; it was Deputy National Security Advisor Matthew Pottinger.
Taken as a whole, the military apparatus overthrew the civilian government.
The CIA's Role from the Outset
In January 2025, journalist Seymour Hersh revealed that a CIA spy worked at the Wuhan Institute of Virology through 2019 and 2020. According to Hersh,
In 2019, the spy warned that,
As Dr. Fauci led the movement to publish the "proximal origin" paper, he also used the power of America's clandestine services to silence potential critics.
Fauci began taking secret meetings at CIA headquarters,
Fauci had long bridged the worlds of public health and American spycraft.
After the terrorist and Anthrax attacks of 2001, the United States became preoccupied with biosecurity to protect against bioweapons, pandemics, and chemical attacks.
At Fort Detrick, Maryland, which historian Stephen Kinzer describes as,
The FBI later determined that the 2001 Anthrax attacks came from a lone, disgruntled Fort Detrick scientist named Bruce Ivins (though law enforcement did not charge him until after he committed suicide in 2008).
That theory has faced intense scrutiny from figures across the political landscape, including, But all agreed that the Anthrax came from inside the United States Intelligence Community.
Francis Boyle, a professor of law at the University of Illinois who drafted the 1989 Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act signed by President George H.W. Bush, argued that a full review of the evidence from the 2001 Anthrax attacks would have,
...specifically citing potential involvement from the Pentagon, the CIA, and public-private partnerships.
Rather than reform, however, Congress chose to grow the bioweapons machinery.
Following 9/11 and the PATRIOT Act, Fauci received a 68-percent pay increase (making him the highest paid federal employee in the country) to,
In 2002, he spearheaded a multi-billion expansion of Fort Detrick.
Meanwhile, Fauci and the US Government continued to funnel money to foreign groups pursuing gain-of-function research, such as the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where it is now known that the Intelligence Community implanted spies.
Until 2020, the concept of a clandestine, supra-national bioweapons program would have sounded far-fetched to even conspiratorial minds.
But the emergence of Covid threatened to unveil the illicit programs run by spymasters and the public health apparatus. In a desperate attempt to evade accountability, the Intelligence Community joined the cover-up of the lab leak.
The CIA offered bribes to scientists to bury findings refuting the "proximal origin" thesis led by Fauci, Farrar, Andersen, and Holmes, according to a whistleblower.
The House Oversight Committee explained:
Then, however, the whistleblower reported that the,
Meanwhile, scientists in the Department of Defense compiled significant evidence that suggested a lab leak.
Like others, they analyzed the "furin cleavage" site and evidence stemming from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. But when they went to deliver their findings to the White House, President Biden's Director of National Intelligence, Avril Haines, banned them from presenting their evidence or participating in a discussion on the origins of the virus.
In January 2025, following President Trump's second inauguration, John Ratcliffe, the recently installed head of the CIA, announced that the agency believed that a lab leak was the most likely source of Covid.
As outlined in "The First Amendment Versus the U.S. Security State," the Intelligence Community was integral to the nation's censorship crusade.
CISA, an agency within the Department of Homeland Security, was responsible for dividing the workforce into labels of "essential" and "nonessential" during lockdowns and then implemented a program known as "switchboarding," where CISA officials dictated to Big Tech platforms what content was permissible or prohibited speech.
Their contempt for free speech was indisputable.
CISA Director Jen Easterly testified in Missouri v. Biden,
Unrelenting, the Department of Homeland Security announced in April 2022 that it would establish a "Disinformation Governance Board," which was to be headed by Democratic activist Nina Jankowicz.
According to Politico, Biden's Ministry of Truth was charged with "countering misinformation."
The Ministry of Truth was only discontinued when the absurdity of its chief censor, Jankowicz, caused sufficient blowback from the public.
Further, the Intelligence Community's influence extended to the highest levels of the White House. Beginning in January 2020, there was an insidious usurpation of the chain of command, and the civilian government was overtaken by a rogue band of military officials.
That coup reached the National Security Council through a little-known official named Matthew Pottinger.
Matthew Pottinger and the National Security Council
Matthew Pottinger began his career as a journalist for the Wall Street Journal before enlisting in the Marines in 2005.
He worked a series of assignments in Asia and later reflected,
In 2017, he joined the Trump Administration as deputy national security advisor, and Politico described him as,
In 2020, as deputy national security advisor, he helped usher in a military junta that showed Americans what a nondemocratic country can do to its citizens.
On January 14, Pottinger breached protocol by unilaterally calling the first interagency meeting on the coronavirus. On January 27, he again summoned officials in the White House Situation Room to address the coronavirus.
While others called for measured responses, Pottinger advocated for travel bans and lockdowns.
In Nightmare Scenario, Washington Post reporter Yasmeen Abutaleb writes:
The following day, Pottinger instructed his wife to text her friend Deborah Birx to meet him in the West Wing.
Three days later, Pottinger suggested lockdowns on the American public.
He raised concerns of asymptomatic spread after reading Chinese social media sources. From the outset, he suspected the virus was the result of a laboratory leak, though his colleagues in the Intelligence Community publicly denigrated that thesis as "conspiratorial."
When health experts responded that there was no history of coronaviruses spreading through asymptomatic carriers, Pottinger increased his calls for drastic measures.
Without any scientific basis, Pottinger advocated for universal masking, saying the policy had no "downside."
According to Abutaleb, Pottinger asked,
In "The Talented Mr. Pottinger," attorney Michael Senger details the enormous control Pottinger had over the early response to the coronavirus, especially with respect to,
While media sources and government officials berated critics to "trust the experts," the leading proponent of lockdowns in the White House was a military alarmist with no understanding of epidemiology and a disregard for the chain of command.
He was perhaps the most influential spreader of disinformation from the onset of the pandemic.
Senger summarizes Pottinger's influence on the American response to Covid as a "singularly outsized role:"
Beyond his influence within the White House, Pottinger and similar actors sowed panic over the novel coronavirus through the media.
On March 7, 2020, Tucker Carlson drove to Mar-a-Lago to warn Trump of the disastrous effects of Covid, information he received from a,
Ten days later, Carlson explained his trip to Palm Beach to Vanity Fair:
During his trip to Mar-a-Lago, Carlson warned President Trump that he could lose the election over Covid and that sources with connections in China insisted that the virus was far more devastating than had been previously reported.
Carlson's source matches an exact description of Pottinger.
Jeffrey Tucker writes:
And just before that alarm reached the public, the Intelligence Community and its liaisons positioned themselves to triumph amidst the forthcoming chaos.
In February 2020, Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) was the Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, one of the most powerful and sought-after positions in Washington. His perch gave him access to information that remained classified to nearly all of his Senate colleagues.
On February 13, 2020, as Burr received intelligence on the coronavirus (a full month ahead of lockdowns), he placed a 50-second phone call to his brother-in-law, Gerald Fauth.
Within minutes, Fauth called his stockbroker to begin liquidating his portfolio.
Meanwhile, Senator Burr delivered public assurances that the country was,
Behind closed doors, however, Burr prepared for economic and national disaster.
After receiving nonpublic briefings on the emergence of the virus and the nation's planned response, Senator Burr sold $1.6 million of stock from his retirement portfolio.
Around the same time, Senator Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) and her husband sold $20 million in stocks after attending a confidential briefing on the coronavirus.
At the same time, they purchased stocks, including health care equities, that proved very successful in the coming months.
On February 20, 2020, the worldwide economic downturn began.
And so an illicit cycle of activities began at the behest of the Intelligence Community.
Those with access to the levers of power sought to profit or advance their careers, and their incentive was to induce alarm and subservience from the citizenry.
It is now clear that a cabal, led by the National Security Council,
It prompted the largest violation of civil liberties in American history, and it is traceable to the highest levels of the nation's military.
That junta then overtook the Covid response and the American government without anyone seeming to take notice.
The Military Takes Over the Covid Response
Weeks before the first stay-at-home order, the military ordered standby orders,
In February 2020, three contingency operations called upon the military to administer government operations by circumventing the US Constitution.
Military commanders would be placed across the United States, and General Terrence J. O'Shaughnessy would lead the country as "combatant commander."
Dictator O'Shaughnessy never came to power, but the military community took charge of the Covid response behind the scenes.
Beginning in March 2020, the National Security Council and the Department of Homeland Security replaced the Department of Health and Human Services as the lead actors in the domestic efforts against Covid.
Their roles were not ceremonial; the military agencies were inseparably tied to the leading public health bureaucrats.
Pottinger and the NSC were responsible for appointing Deborah Birx to the Covid response team.
Without any announcement, the country's leading military officials overtook the most widespread suppression of civil liberties in American history.
Government documents from March 13, 2020, showed that the National Security Council had taken control of the nation's Covid policy.
Five days later, President Trump invoked the Stafford Act, which made FEMA, a branch of the Department of Homeland Security, the "Lead Federal Agency" (LFA) in the pandemic response, replacing the Department of Health and Human Services.
From then on, HHS (including the CDC, NIAID, and the NIH) had no official leadership role in the response to Covid.
The week that the military replaced the health apparatus as the leaders of the Covid response coincided with the beginning of lockdowns on March 16.
Representative government had ceased to exist in the United States.
With hindsight, it was a clear and deliberate military operation.
The United States, meanwhile, had completed the construction of the first federal quarantine camp in over a century in January 2020, which the New York Times described as,
The Pentagon later announced that it would expand the facility, located in Omaha, Nebraska, in coordination with a slew of other federal entities, including the Department of Homeland Security.
In July 2020, the CDC published plans for nationwide quarantine camps, in which the US Government, led by the armed services, would forcibly isolate patients, ban them from social contact, and strip them of all physical access to the outside world other than the delivery of food and cleaning supplies.
Underpinning this plan was the strength of the US military, which was charged with carrying out the Covid response.
Thus, the existing government used the military to quietly restructure society, abolishing its constitution and its longest-standing freedoms. The results were tyrannical, nonsensical, and devastating.
Soon thereafter, the military led the next crusade in the Covid coup.
The Department of Defense and Vaccines
In 1958, the US Department of Defense established the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to promote research and development of military-level technology following the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik the previous year.
In the ensuing decades, DARPA devised technology that laid the foundation for,
In Imagineers of War - The Untold Story of DARPA, Sharon Weinberger writes that DARPA's,
Following the 2001 terrorist and anthrax attacks, the Department of Defense began investing tens of billions of dollars into vaccines and medical initiatives.
The Lancet explains:
In 2003, Dr. Anthony Fauci articulated his biodefense vision:
The 9/11 response also paved the way for "emergency use authorization," a designation from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that allows unapproved medical products to be used during a public health emergency.
Harvard Law's Bill of Health explains,
In the ensuing 20 years, the United States invested over $100 billion in the biodefense industry, including programs called "ADEPT" and the "Pandemic Preparedness Platform," which provided the capital for the initial development of mRNA technology.
In 2013, DARPA provided the initial investment in Moderna.
In September 2019, President Trump signed an Executive Order on "Modernizing Influenza Vaccines," which directed government agencies, including the Department of Defense, to develop a,
Six months later, the pandemic response took center stage, and the Pentagon prepared to weaponize its biodefense infrastructure.
Later that year, the US Government entered into a vaccine manufacturing agreement with Pfizer and BioNTech. By July, the agreement encompassed a minimum of 100 million doses of a "vaccine to prevent COVID-19" and a payment of at least $1.95 billion.
The agreement also allowed for the future procurement of hundreds of millions of additional doses.
Investigative journalist Debbie Lerman writes:
In the following months, "Operation Warp Speed" only increased the role of the military in an initiative that ostensibly came from the private sector.
In November 2020, the New York Times described how,
The article recounted how the Defense Department acquired facilities, raw materials, permits, and medical supplies for the vaccine manufacturers and orchestrated supply chain management, distribution initiatives, and,
Pentagon planners considered every potential disruption to the project, but the government deliberately hid the involvement of the military from the public.
The Chief Operating Officer of Operation Warp Speed, Four Star General Gustave F. Perna, had to manage disgruntled public health officials who complained,
But the Defense Department's influence was not limited to procurement or logistics; it was central to the approval and dissemination of the shots.
The Harvard Law Bill of Health explains that for emergency use authorizations,
Debbie Lerman writes:
Thus, the Department of Defense used the infrastructure of emergency war powers stemming from the PATRIOT Act to evade traditional testing and safety protocol.
Once Secretary of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar invoked the PREP Act, the Department of Defense and the FDA were able to begin vaccine rollouts under emergency use authorization.
This had critical downstream effects. Notably, the FDA did not require any safety efficacy data from clinical trials to authorize the EUA, and any clinical trials related to the EUA process were not required to comply with any regulatory standards.
Coupled with the nearly all-encompassing immunity granted to vaccine manufacturers, every incentive encouraged rushing a flawed shot to the market.
By June 2021, the United States Vaccine Adverse Effective Reporting System (VAERS) reported 4,812 deaths from the Covid vaccine as well as 21,440 hospitalizations.
In January 2023, VAERS exceeded one million adverse events reported from the Covid vaccine as well as 21,000 deaths (four times as many deaths as VAERS has recorded from all other vaccine reports combined since 1990), with 30% of those deaths taking place within 48 hours of vaccination.
In the following years, regulatory agencies and studies belatedly acknowledged vaccine injuries, including, American citizens felt it from the beginning; some sense that normal law was no longer in operation.
The whole of society, in many countries, was experiencing something closer to martial law. There were only orders, not legislation. The orders were often cast as recommendations but enforced as mandates.
The lines of authority were scrambled and confusion reigned throughout, with fear replacing rational judgment.
It was always unclear precisely who was in charge, and that became more apparent when the President Trump himself started posting wishes for a return to normalcy on his social media accounts.
Was he not in charge?
In many ways, no:
Of all features of the Covid response, this is the one that remains least explained, least explored, and least understood.
That is because vast amounts of the documentation, from the lockdowns to the countermeasures called vaccines, still remain cloaked under the cover of being classified.
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