I know they knew of each other since it is not exactly a huge club - but until I can see evidence of an actual link between the two - I will reserve judgement.  Running down some leads on whether Fauci may have given funding approval for research on behalf of DoD. It is not outside of the realm of possibility for a department such as the DoD to have someone within NIH to get approval for projects that need to be removed from under the DoD umbrella. Not a good idea for sure especially if Fauci approved funding for an illegal chimeral viral research project on behalf of the DoD. I believe George Webb is looking into the same thing.