TheyLied: CIA Whistleblower on COVID: "there is a much larger meta problem sitting on top of COVID"

"we are repeatedly lied to by these people, lied to and lied to and lied to."

May 14, 2026

“You don’t need a formal conspiracy when interests converge” ~ attributed to George Carlin.

“The reason COVID is so important is because what we did find is that there is a much larger meta problem sitting on top of COVID.” ~ James Erdman III, CIA Whistleblower

“We don’t have a democracy anymore, because we the people aren’t in charge. These people are in charge, and they’re lying to us every single day … they then violated the law again by withholding thousands and thousands of pages that they had at the time and knew were covered by the law. The conclusions, so-called, they released to the public are false. If that is not a cover up, I don’t know what is.” ~ Senator Josh Hawley

“The COVID-19 pandemic was one of the most consequential events of our lifetime — and to this day, the American people have never received a full accounting of where it came from, what our government knew, or why they had to fight their own government to find out.
For years, Americans were told to trust the experts, trust the agencies, trust the intelligence community, and trust the officials who assured us they were following the science.
Today we will expose a system in which the same small circle of officials, scientists, grantees, and intelligence advisers moved from agency to agency, meeting to meeting, and briefing to briefing — reviewing one another’s work, shaping one another’s conclusions, and presenting those conclusions to Congress and the public as independent judgment.
Only, it was not independent. It was a circle.
For example, Dr. Ralph Baric collaborated with Dr. Zhengli Shi in Wuhan, China, to create gain-of-function coronaviruses. But Dr. Baric was also part of the Biological Sciences Experts Group (BSEG) and an active consultant to intelligence agencies on the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Likewise, Peter Daszak received hundreds of millions of dollars from the U.S. government and worked with Dr. Shi on gain-of-function experiments. Daszak was also sent to China with the WHO to investigate the origins of COVID.
So, the scientists commissioned to investigate COVID origins were, in some cases, the very scientists who were complicit in the gain of function experiments that may have created COVID.
We owe the American people a complete record. We owe every family harmed by this pandemic a government that does not hide behind secrecy, conflicts, and curated science when the stakes are life and death.” ~ Rand Paul, U.S. Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman

Click here to watch the hearing (or read the transcript):

or click here to watch on the Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs website.

The Church Committee - Jan. 27, 1975

“Frank Church led one of the most important oversight investigations ever undertaken by Congress into covert operations by the U.S. intelligence community. His work began on January 27, 1975, when the Senate voted 82-to-4 to form the U.S. Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities; it would come to be called the Church Committee, after its chair.
The 16-month investigation, which included 126 committee meetings, 40 subcommittee hearings, 150 staff members, and 800 witness interviews, uncovered shocking facts and intelligence operations that had been unknown to both Congress and the public:
Attempted assassinations of foreign leaders;
COINTELPRO;
Project Mockingbird;
Project MINARET;
Project SHAMROCK;
HTLINGUAL;
Project MKUltra;
Project MKNaomi.”
Senator Church commented, “The trouble is, the watchdog committee never really watched the dog.”
“Now, why is this investigation important? I’ll tell you why: because I don’t want to see this country ever go across the bridge. I know the capacity that is there to make tyranny total in America, and we must see to it that this agency and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision so that we never cross over that abyss. That is the abyss from which there is no return.” Click here to read more and watch the videos.

Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities (The Church Committee)

“Intelligence agencies have undermined the constitutional rights of citizens,” the final report concluded, “primarily because checks and balances designed by the framers of the Constitution to assure accountability have not been applied.”

Click here to read more about the Church Committee or download the final report.

Florida’s Grand Jury Reports on COVID-19

February 9, 2024 - “Florida rejected the prevailing orthodoxy regarding non-pharmaceutical interventions, but in reality, just followed pre-COVID pandemic response guidance, which elite bureaucrats tossed aside as fear and hysteria took over,” said Governor Ron DeSantis. “Florida preserved freedom and blocked mandates. The grand jury has now confirmed what we knew all along – Florida got it right.” Click here to read a brief summary of the report.

On Feb. 9, 2024, Governor Ron DeSantis and State Surgeon General Dr. Joseph A. Ladapo met with members of Florida’s Public Health Integrity Committee (PHIC) to discuss the First Interim Report released by the Florida Statewide 22nd Grand Jury on the harmful impacts of mask mandates and lockdowns. Click here to watch the roundtable discussion.

Click here to read the First Interim Report published Feb. 2, 2024. Major highlights of the report include:

On nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs): “To be clear, scientific research into NPIs and their consequences did not begin with the outbreak of COVID-19. A wealth of contemporaneous scientific information already existed in major publications that could have informed a much more robust and meaningful response with respect to NPIs, but much of it was ignored or even attacked by mainstream public health and media entities in the early months of the pandemic, for reasons that are not always clear. In short, this was not an ‘information’ problem, it was a ‘judgment’ problem.”
On lockdowns: “Lockdowns were not a good trade. Comparative data showed that jurisdictions that held to them tended to end up with higher overall excess mortality. This is especially evident when compared to jurisdictions that targeted their protective efforts towards the highest-risk groups instead of mandating large-scale, extended periods of quarantine for everyone.”
On safety and efficacy: “It should also be apparent that establishing the ‘safety’ of a biological product necessitates a comprehensive, meaningful and accurate evaluation of the risk presented by the disease that product is designed to address.”
On masking: “We have never had sound evidence of their effectiveness against SARS-CoV-2 transmission” and “there have always been legitimate questions around the impracticality of individual adherence to mask recommendations, but once it became clear that the primary transmission vector of SARS-CoV-2 was via aerosol, their potential efficacy was further diminished. Public health agencies failed to adequately explain this important distinction to the American public in favor of a broad mask recommendation that did not make nearly enough distinction between the types of masks available and put at risk those it sought to help. Well-financed federal agencies chose to fill the discourse with flawed observational and laboratory studies, hiding behind their conclusion of ‘no equipoise’ to avoid the potential embarrassment of the public health advice they championed being invalidated by evidence.”
On hospitalization risk: “We know for a fact that this happened because numerous federal and state health officials have publicly stated that they did not ask or require hospitals to distinguish cases where someone was admitted with incidental SARS-CoV-2 infection versus cases where someone was so sick with symptoms of COVID-19 disease that he or she required hospitalization. Thus, it is highly likely that the CDC’s number of total hospitalizations is inflated to some degree with asymptomatic or minor SARS-CoV-2 infections that were classified as ‘hospitalizations’ in order to financially benefit the hospital.”
On collateral consequences: “Somehow, because of panic, hubris, ineptitude or some unfortunate combination of the three, this widely rejected idea not only made its way back into scientific discourse in 2020, it became the law of the land in most of the United States between 2020 and 2022. It is clear to this Grand Jury that whatever benefits inured from these mandates, they were not worth the price.”