I wrote this as a post in April '23, but it seems timely:
The Top 5 Reasons Gavin Newsom Is a Fascistic, Hypocritical Sleazebag—(now) a thread 🧵(1/6)
(2/6) 1. DINED AT THE FRENCH LAUNDRY IN DEFIANCE OF COVID RULES
In November 2020, after implementing some of the strictest COVID-19 “public health measures” in the country (California was the first state to lockdown in the nation, yet still to this day has the most deaths out of any state)(1) Newsom was spotted dining and socializing at the French Laundry, an upscale, three-Michelin restaurant in northern California(2). At the dinner with Newsom were California Medical Association CEO Dustin Corcoran and then SVP of California Medical Association Janus Norman, along with nine other people.
After Newsom and state officials spent months urging Californians not to co-mingle with members of other households—and discouraging families from gathering for the holidays—this action exemplified blatant hypocrisy. At the time, the California Department of Public Health said that restaurant patrons “must wear face coverings” unless “they [were] eating or drinking.” (3) Restaurant patrons were also only allowed to remove their masks if “they [were] able to maintain a distance of at least six feet away from persons who are not members of the same household or residence.”
Nobody at the table with Newsom was masking or “socially distancing” themselves.
Not incidentally, it was also reported at the time that Newsom’s kids were still attending their private school while most public schools remained closed.
(1) Source: worldometers.info/coronavirus/co… (Note that while I wrote this post in April 2023, as of January 2025, CA still has the most COVID deaths of any state in the Union!)
(3/6) 2. SILENCED DOCTORS SPEAKING OUT AGAINST THE BIOWEAPON JABS
A second example of Newsom being an absolute garbage human being comes from his signing legislation that limits the free speech rights of California doctors.
As The Mercury News reported in October of 2022, Newsom signed into law AB2098, which declared that it shall “constitute unprofessional conduct for a physician and surgeon to disseminate misinformation or disinformation related to COVID-19, including false or misleading information regarding the nature and risks of the virus, its prevention and treatment; and the development, safety, and effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines.”(1) AB2098 notes that medical boards are allowed “to take action against any licensed physician and surgeon who is charged with unprofessional conduct.”(2)
Mercury News reported that “Vaccine skeptics and mandate critics were joined in opposition by a number of doctors, health officials and free speech advocates who argued the bill was counterproductive censorship that will further erode trust in health officials.”
On March 31, 2023 California-based physician and PhD Epidemiologist Tracy Beth Høeg called out Newsom for his blatant hypocrisy in this context. When Newsom wrote that the GOP has become “the party that opposes free speech and free markets,” Høeg responded “Wait a minute here [Gavin Newsom,] are you aware of a bill you signed into law [AB2098] that restricts physicians’ freedom of speech which Høeg v Newsom has [a] prelim injunction against?”
(4/6) 3. MADE THE COVID BIOWEAPON INJECTION MANDATORY FOR SCHOOLCHILDREN
Even worse than attempting to silence doctors and destroy their First Amendment right to free speech was Newsom’s decision to mandate the COVID bioweapon injections for children attending public schools in the state.
In October of 2021, California became the first state in the U.S. to add the COVID-19 injection to the list of vaccinations required for students to attend in-person learning.(1) Newsom’s law required children as young as Kindergarten-aged to be “vaccinated” against COVID-19, with the only exceptions being due to personal beliefs or medical concerns. However, the criteria for these exemptions were not explicitly listed, encouraging Democrats within the state’s legislature like state Senator Scott Wiener to call for the removal of “personal belief exemptions.”
For reference, the COVID bioweapon injections are enormously harmful and utterly ineffective.(2)(3) The poison jabs have been linked to blood clotting, myocarditis, shingles, menstrual issues, and paralysis.(4)(5)(6)(7)(8) The injections have also been linked to impaired semen concentration and autoimmune disease.(9)(10) The infection fatality rate (IFR) for people aged 0-17 is also astronomically low, of course. The CDC estimates the IFR of that age group at .002%.(11)
The injections have also been linked to enormous increases in all-cause mortality, and are unequivocally incapable of preventing any kind of disease spread.(12)(13) In fact, they make it more likely that an individual contracts COVID-19.(14)
The same month the COVID injection was added to the list of required “vaccines,” thousands of families went to the state capitol to protest.(15) In February of 2023 The Los Angeles Daily News reported California officials “quietly backed away from plans to require COVID-19 vaccinations for K-12 school students, a move that avoids the prospect of barring tens of thousands of unvaccinated children from the classroom.”(16)
(5/6) 4. URGED A BAILOUT OF SILICON VALLEY BANK WHILE HE HAD ACCOUNTS WITH THE BANK
Newsom again exposed his true, disgusting nature following the March 2023 Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) collapse. Following the sudden collapse of the bank, the California governor urged the Biden administration to bail it out.(1) While he maintained multiple accounts at the bank.
In a March 2023 article titled “Cheering Silicon Valley Bank Bailout, Gavin Newsom Doesn’t Mention He’s a Client,” The Intercept outlined how three of Newsom’s wineries—including CADE, Odette, and Plumpjack—were all listed as clients on SVB’s website.(2) The Intercept also reported that Newsom had “also maintained personal accounts at SVB for years” according to one of his former employees who had insight into the governor’s finances.
The Washington Times also reported that SVB gave $100,000 to the California Partners Project, a charity founded by Newsom’s wife, “at the governor’s request.”
The *most plausible explanation* for the COVID "pandemic" explained:
➡️Not a "virus" release; a deployment of a chemical weapon
➡️The *non-lethal* chem weapon was used to seed "sentinel cases" and stir fear
➡️"Worried well" convinced themselves they were sick
➡️Excess deaths—prior to the release of the COVID bioweapon injections—were driven by hospital slaughter protocols (including ventilators, remdesivir, isolation, etc.) and, to a lesser extent, the shut down of society
This model, described here in part in a recent discussion between Zowe Smith (@Zowe_TKMC) and Sasha Latypova (@sasha_latypova), accounts for many disparate pieces of evidence, IMO. Yes, we've had frontline workers report people developing strange symptoms—e.g. "happy hypoxia"—so *something* novel was introduced. However, no "virus" was ever isolated, including for the CDC's own PCR "test."
Whatever was released was not lethal (or, essentially non-lethal), as we now know 90%+ of excess deaths were due to lethal hospital protocols (including remdesivir/ventilation/isolation/etc.).
I base the above 90% figure on the work John Beaudoin has done looking at death certificates; plus the fact that we have myriad medical whistleblowers who have stepped forward and said that it hasn't been "COVID" killing people, it has been **the COVID protocols themselves.**
Furthermore, as Latypova notes elsewhere in this discussion, "lab leaks" happen all the time—if they could result in "pandemics," we'd be getting a lot more of them.
In this clip, Smith also shows footage of Dr. James Giordano, PhD, a former US Naval officer and the Pellegrino Center Professor in the Departments of Neurology and Biochemistry at Georgetown University Medical Center, who was a member of the Neuroethics, Legal, and Social Issues Advisory Panel at DARPA. Giordano, who has become internet-famous (infamous?) for his talks on various brain-hacking and biotech devices, describes (in essence) a pandemic scare using the deployment of "high-morbidity neural microbiologic agents" or "neural bugs."
(Note: "high-morbidity" not "high-mortality.")
While Giordano explains using, in essence, a gain-of-function "bug" to produce "sentinel cases" for a pandemic scare, note that Latypova says that "most of the things he mention[s] [are] intoxication agents or chemicals." The pharma insider adds, "chemical attacks...are more reliable than biologics attacks...[and] all these [naturally occurring biological agents] no matter what you do with them in the labs...quickly denature outside; or even indoors, exposed to air, and normal circulation and so forth."
Note this is supported by the work of none other than Ralph Baric. Baric, for example, concluded in a now-infamous paper published in 2016, dubbed "SARS-like WIV1-CoV poised for human emergence," that:
"Focusing on the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)-like viruses, the results indicate that the WIV1-coronavirus (CoV) cluster has the ability to directly infect and may undergo limited transmission in human populations. However, in vivo attenuation suggests additional adaptation is required for epidemic disease."
In other words, Baric et al., tried to make a GOF virus, but it petered out too quickly to qualify for "epidemic disease" potential.
Furthermore, note that Giordano doesn't describe a real "pandemic" or even epidemic—he only describes introducing "sentinel cases" at "key sites" (like Des Moines, Seattle, Houston, etc.) and then "[rippling] the sheets of the worried well" in order to "get every hypochondriac running to their physician."
Also, perhaps the most salient point: If the intention behind the COVID scam was to maim/slaughter/sterilize humanity en masse (and of course it was), why rely on a worldwide "vaccination" campaign if massive damage was doable with a GOF "virus"?
The injections are the bioweapons. The GOF "virus" is the scary narrative (seeded with a chemical weapons release) that got people to line up and stick the poison needles in their arms.
Here's a previous clip of Smith describing how remdesivir was used to "[make it] look like there was a deadly, contagious pandemic going on...[when] there was [actually] an epidemic of...doctors murdering people..."
Neil Oliver says it isn't important if there was a novel virus in 2020, "what matters is what was done in the name of it...which is to say, our freedoms were taken."
While this point's key, a quick 🧵 supporting Oliver's assertion "there was [nothing] new or dangerous." (1/17)
This clip is from a recent interview Oliver (@thecoastguy) did with former BlackRock fund manager Edward Dowd on GBNews (@GBNEWS).
The interviewer, Bev Turner (@beverleyturner), asks Oliver, "Neil, how have you come to [the conclusion there was no SARS-CoV-2]?"
Oliver responds: "[There were] so many instances [where] people...weren't calling themselves COVID sufferers unless they'd taken a test. And the PCR tests were utterly bogus." He adds, "from the mouth of their own designer and builder, they were not diagnostic tools. They're forensic tools. They were not supposed to be used in the way that they were being used."
"What kind of a novel virus was it if you had to take a test to find out you had it?" Oliver asks rhetorically. "Is that the best...thing that you could say about COVID-19? That it was so mild that you didn't know you had it?"
Oliver goes on to say: "When you look at, let's say, professor Stefan Homburg in Germany...you can look at the stuff online where he delivers stark information from German government entities and agencies...in Germany, a modern developed western country, hospital bed occupancy in 2019 and 2020 in Germany was at a record low."
"Clinicians saw nothing new. There was nothing clinical that they saw that they were in any way alarmed about. And perhaps most of all, the average age of death was 82 [or] 83, which is at or beyond life expectancy. So there was nothing in Germany, to take Germany as an example, that said to clinicians that there was anything happening here."
(2/17) Here is the quote referenced by Oliver by Kary Mullis, the Nobel Prize–winning inventor of the PCR *technique* (not *test*).
"PCR...is just a process that's used to make a whole lot of something out of something. IT DOESN'T TELL YOU THAT YOU'RE SICK and it doesn't tell you that the thing you ended up with was really gonna hurt you or anything like that.
(3/17) Just as important as Mullis' note about the PCR *technique* is the FACT that the CDC never isolated SARS-CoV-2 for its PCR "test."
Quote: "SINCE NO QUANTIFIED VIRUS ISOLATES OF THE 2019-nCoV WERE AVAILABLE FOR CDC AT THE TIME THE TEST WAS DEVELOPED and this study conducted, assays designed for detection of the 2019-nCoV RNA were tested with characterized stocks of in vitro transcribed full length RNA (N gene; GenBank accession: MN908947.2) of known titer (RNA copies/µL) spiked into a diluent consisting of a suspension of human A549 cells and viral transport medium (VTM) to mimic clinical specimen."
This is *the only realistic way* to get the COVID injections pulled.
HHS Secretary RFK Jr. (@SecKennedy) must revoke the PREP Act liability shield for the jabs—and he can do that NOW, *UNILATERALLY*
If he does not, he becomes complicit in "mass murder" (his quote) (A 🧵, 1/11)
In this open letter recently posted by Sasha Latypova (@sasha_latypova), the retired pharma R&D executive calls on RFK Jr. to "use [his] authority to immediately terminate the PREP Act emergency declaration for the covid pandemic, as there is no such emergency in reality." She notes, "All mRNA injections marketed as covid vaccines today are Emergency Use Authorized (EUA) Military Countermeasures."
Latypova adds that the COVID injections are being given to babies as the jabs are now on the CDC's immunization schedule, and that this means, in effect, that it's RFK Jr.'s opinion—by default—that this is an acceptable practice.
The retired pharma R&D executive goes on to say that the COVID injections constitute "the greatest human tragedy in recorded history" and have also "destroyed public trust in the government['s] health agencies."
Approximate transcription of Latypova's remarks in this clip:
"Secretary Kennedy,
"All mRNA injections marketed as covid vaccines today are Emergency Use Authorized (EUA) Military Countermeasures. The EUA pathway is used only when the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services declares an emergency and issues a PREP Act declaration. Section 564 of the Food and Drugs and Cosmetics Act exempts medical countermeasures from the pharmaceutical regulatory compliance or from the informed consent requirements for the duration of the PREP Act declaration of emergency. While the manufacturers may choose and FDA may ask to undertake some of the activities typically expected from an investigational clinical trial and manufacturing validation process, none of the typical pharmaceutical regulatory standards are applicable in an enforceable way.
"If there is no enforcement of the law, it’s as if the law doesn't exist. Misrepresentations of safety, efficacy or contents of EUA products are allowed by federal law. Thus, claims provided by the federal health authorities or manufacturers cannot be considered reliable sources of information. When these products are pushed onto unsuspecting consumers, claims about safety, efficacy or contents of these products are based solely on the HHS Secretary’s opinion, which requires no supporting scientific evidence. Today, three mRNA shots are listed on the CDC Childhood Vaccination Schedule to be given to 9 months old infants. Secretary Kennedy, are we supposed to think that it is now YOUR opinion that they are safe and effective for babies? I do not believe that, knowing what you know about mRNA injections, you can honestly believe this yourself. Current PREP Act emergency declaration [for covid] was extended by the previous administration by Xavier Becerra and it's now supposed to last until December 31, 2029!
"Real emergencies do not last decades simply based on the opinion of a single public health official. There is no real emergency for covid in the United Sates or worldwide as you are well aware. Continued PREP Act declarations, therefore, defy the observed reality and common sense, and represents a misuse and abuse of the federal law which was intended for declaring short-term emergencies in severe situations such as war or acts of terrorism. This law also did not envision shipping of billions of doses of medical products legally allowed to be adulterated and misbranded. Yet, this is precisely what is transpiring under the current PREP Act declaration today.
"By keeping the PREP Act declaration in place, the current administration continues to contrive a non-existing emergency. This contrivance serves only the interests of pharmaceutical companies and those institutions that still mandate the shots, shielding them from liability for deaths and injuries caused by the falsely promoted inherently unsafe products. Clearly, this contrivance does not serve the interests of the public at all. The continued disregard of the victims of the covid shots under the thorough liability shield of the PREP Act abuses the federal law and destroys any remaining shreds of the public trust in the government health authorities. These products pose severe risk of harm and death to the public due to the absence of any enforceable pharmaceutical regulations.
"The FDA and manufacturers falsely claim that these products are fully approved for age 12 and older as prophylactic vaccines. However, once someone is injured by these vaccines and seeks compensation for their injuries, they are informed that the products are not legally vaccines but countermeasures, and the only avenue available to them is the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program.
"To date this program has denied almost all claims and paid only a few thousand dollars to a handful of victims, making a mockery of them and the unbearable toll of their permanently destroyed health. During your Congressional confirmation hearings you said that a healthy person has a thousand dreams while a sick person has only one dream. Were you sincere about helping the covid vaccine victims? Secretary Kennedy, I respectfully ask you to:
"Please use your authority to immediately terminate the PREP Act emergency declaration for covid pandemic, as there is no such emergency in reality.
"Please also investigate the misuse and abuse of the federal law utilized in the so-called 'pandemic response' and countermeasures that resulted in the greatest human tragedy in recorded history and also destroyed public trust in the government health agencies."
@SecKennedy (2/11) Note RFK Jr. said in a March 2023 discussion that the "clinical trials" for the COVID injections were, quote: "meaningless theater."
RFK Jr. added that the jabs are "a demonstration product, not a medical product" and that "the FDA has no authority over [them]."
(3/11) RFK Jr. said in the same discussion, quote:
"[Regarding the COVID jabs] the only determination [they're safe/effective] is that the Secretary of HHS decides, in his head, with either some evidence, or no evidence whatsoever, that the product may be effective. That's it."
RFK Jr. adds, "even if the evidence then shows that it's not effective, if he can say, 'Well, I still believe it's effective, it stays on the market. Even if there's a mountain of evidence that says it's killing people, it's not effective, he can choose, legally, under his own decision-making, that I'm going to believe that this is effective, no matter what the evidence says, and as long as I believe it's effective, legally, I can essentially mandate it for all Americans."
HYPER-CRITICAL: RFK Jr says the "clinical trials" for COVID jabs was "KABUKI THEATER" -ie FAKE
QUOTE: "IT WAS MEANINGLESS THEATER...IT IS A DEMONSTRATION PRODUCT, NOT A MEDICAL PRODUCT...THE FDA HAS NO AUTHORITY OVER IT"
Saying jab trials were FAKE is part of informed consent!
This is a discussion with retired pharma R&D executive Sasha Latypova (@sasha_latypova) from March 2023.
ALL OF THE FOLLOWING TEXT IS FROM RFK Jr.'s OWN MOUTH (@RobertKennedyJr):
"Let me just give the punch line to what you're about to tell us, which is that, essentially, there were a series of laws put in place that allowed the military to take over distribution of vaccines and under a provision that does not allow any clinical trials and does not allow any safety testing.
"And...essentially, the safety testing that we did see, which was conducted by the pharmaceutical industry, was Kabuki theater put on for the public with no regulatory implications. And that's why they were able to take all these shortcuts because it was meaningless theater.
.........
"Other transaction authority is called OTA. OTA. And which is essentially designed to allow the Pentagon to quickly buy weapons and weapons systems Without paying attention to any any existing regulatory authorities.
"What they've done is they've taken that authority, and they've applied it to the vaccines. So they're purchasing the vaccines under OTA as a demonstration product. It's not a medical product. So it has FDA has no authority over it. CDC has no authority over it. Military is actually manufacturing. They've farmed this out to hundreds of military contractors to do the manufacturing, to do the distribution, to do every aspect of it. And it's all a huge military operation. And the the involvement of the drug companies is kinda window dressing because the Pentagon did not wanna say did not wanna put on the product product. This is a Pentagon made defense department made product.
"They essentially paid the pharmaceutical companies, for their brand name so people would think they were getting something from Pfizer or Moderna.
"But all of the backroom and the, you know, the distribution and manufacturing is done by the military. And the the pharmaceutical companies were brought in to put their name on it and then to pretend to do clinical trials, which have no legal significance."
THIS ISN'T SUBTLE.
Recall that in the COVID-jab contract between the DOD and Pfizer, the former paid the latter $1.95 billion for a "large scale vaccine manufacturing demonstration" of a "prototype." (1)
When Pfizer whistleblower Brook Jackson sued Pfizer over its fraudulent clinical trials, Pfizer itself confirmed that it was only responsible for producing a "demonstration" of a COVID countermeasure that imposed "no requirements related to Good Clinical Practices" ('CGP') or related FDA regulations." (2)
"We have worked with the manufacturers to help them scale up operations in order to produce vaccines and therapeutics. WE HAVE PURCHASED AND SECURED THE SUPPLIES NEEDED TO DELIVER AND ADMINISTER THE DRUG," Perna adds. (Emphasis added.)
"Everything from the vials that hold the vaccine, to the syringes and needles that will be used to put shots into arms." Perna notes that OWS would utilize the DOD's "planning and logistics expertise" and that the department would function "across the supply chains, FROM MANUFACTURING TO DELIVERY." (Emphasis added.)
"But commercial industry, not the military, will physically ship and distribute the vaccines to your local areas," Perna adds, highlighting a "whole-of-America" approach.
The Constitution is still (unlawfully) suspended because of COVID.
Figures like RFK Jr. and Sen. Ron Johnson know COVID was a military operation but are still framing it as a botched public health response. (Tweet 1/5)
Retired pharma R&D executive Sasha Latypova (@sasha_latypova) describes for Sarah Westall (@sarah_westall) how "we're [still] in the Twilight Zone" post COVID, as nearly everyone in government—from both sides of the aisle—are pretending that COVID was a public health event when it was, in fact, a military operation.
"[A] military framework was used [for COVID], and the public was lied to, as if [it was] a public health event," Latypova says. She notes that while figures like RFK Jr. and Senator Ron Johnson are willing to talk about the "botching" of the COVID response, they refuse to address "the castle" of—unlawful—laws surrounding public health emergencies that completely negate the Constitution.
Although Latypova doesn't mention it in this clip, take as one example of the unlawful laws that make up the "castle" of unlawful laws that suspend constitutional rights the PREP Act. The PREP Act, passed in 2005 under George Bush, negates American citizens' right to petition the government for redress of grievances, which is explicitly protected by the First Amendment. I.e. the PREP Act says you can't sue "covered persons" (e.g., "vaccine" manufacturers, doctors, pharmacy personnel) involved in the administration or use of "covered countermeasures" (e.g., "vaccines") in response to public health emergencies.
—> This. Liability. Protection. Is. Not. Constitutional. <—
"We're in the Twilight Zone. Everyone pretends on both sides of the aisle. I'm accusing both Democrats, Republicans, everyone in Congress [of pretending COVID is a public health response instead of a military operation]," Latypova says. "Since...December 2022, we [have] had sufficient evidence to demonstrate this is a military operation. That [a] military framework was used, and the public was lied to, as if [COVID were] a public health event."
"We...compiled this material at the request of Senator Johnson of Wisconsin," Latypova adds. "Senator Johnson, actually, his staffers, set up a Zoom call with me and Katherine [Watt] and a few other people. And he asked us, 'Can you put together a memo for me and, the package of evidence, which we've done?' And it's a two-page memo describing this—what laws have been utilized [for the military operation]... I published all of this and sent it to him in December, 2022. Nothing happened after that."
Latypova adds, "As you know, he held several hearings before and after. And to give him credit, he invited me to one, but I couldn't make the schedule. But he's held several hearings, with very high-profile so-called freedom leaders, discussing how COVID was [a] public health response [that] was botched...[but] this wasn't a public health anything, and he knows it."
"I give him a lot of credit for calling attention to the victims of this [military operation]," Latypova says. "You know, I'm very grateful that he gave any attention to this, but this wasn't a secret. We've published it many times. I gave it to him. I [also] gave this information to RFK Jr. too. I have a podcast with him recorded—two podcasts, actually. And he knows all of this also...But still, the public perception is being managed, and I don't know what he's gonna do about it."
Latypova goes on to say:
'What['s happening] right now is the public opinion is getting managed back into this box of, 'This was a public health event,' and 'This was a public health response. Some mistakes were made, some overreach. Let's fix those things.' But they won't do anything about the castle. The castle is these laws that they're using. These, essentially, military martial law[s] that they have pulled. They suspended the Constitution. They haven't unsuspended it yet. I haven't seen any evidence of this...[And] they've written a mountain of law[s], to do exactly this, starting even maybe in the 1800s.
"My friend, Katherine [Watt], started going back and tracing all these legal changes, specifically around the vaccines, even going back to the 1700s. And you can see how this, like, machine is morphing—meaning the federal government, which the Constitution actually is the document that limits the federal government very severely...But [what] they've done since, you know, the late 1700s or or even, you know, mid 1800s, they've done the complete opposite of it. So now the federal government is everything, pretty much. And what they've done in this last last episode [COVID], is they further merged the power of separate federal agencies that are supposed to be separate, supposed to be separately, you know, constrained and regulated. They're not. So since then, they've merged 11 federal agencies into what's called PEMSI [?]. It's a pandemic enterprise."
(2/5) This thread contains the overwhelming evidence that COVID was a military operation, not a public health response:
You have been lied to about the Elizabeth Holmes/Theranos story. Theranos was a failed Deep State play to get a blood-testing scam in place for diseases like COVID.
Holmes was a patsy. She took the fall for the real players. A 🧵 of the evidence proving these claims (1/29)
(2/29) The story of how Theranos came to a fiery and unflattering end has been solidified in the media: It was the company’s founder, Elizabeth Holmes, who almost single-handedly was able to dazzle/deceive everyone from her investors to her employees to the FDA. A hat trick of fraud she was able to execute thanks to her charm, beauty, and often-touted brilliance.
(3/29) But there are HUGE RED FLAGS with the official story. The biggest being: How did Holmes manage to dupe her board of directors, which consisted of ultra-powerful players in the top echelons of national security/foreign policy, including:
Henry A. Kissinger — former U.S. Secretary of State and national security advisor
George P. Schultz — former U.S. Secretary of State
Gary Roughhead — retired U.S. Navy admiral
William J. Perry — former U.S. Secretary of Defense
Sam Nunn — a former U.S. senator who served as Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee and the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
James N. Mattis — a retired U.S. Marine Corps general (who served as the U.S. Secretary of Defense from 2017 to 2019, after Theranos’ collapse)
William H. Foege — former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
William H. Frist — a former U.S. senator and heart and lung transplant surgeon
Richard Kovacevich — former CEO of Wells Fargo
Donald Lucas Sr. — billionaire venture capitalist
Riley P. Bechtel — chairman of the board of the Bechtel Group Inc., a 109-year-old construction company with $40 billion in revenue that was responsible for “epic” projects such as the Hoover Dam and the Trans-Arabian Pipeline.