Gabbard declassified documents on U.S.-funded biolabs, reviving a fight over whether the long-denied program was ever really secret.

• Former intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard released documents showing the U.S. funded over 120 biolabs in more than 30 countries, including 40+ in Ukraine.
• The labs handle dangerous pathogens — anthrax, Ebola, the plague — and some did risky gain-of-function research with little oversight.
• The big worry is Russian forces seizing or damaging Ukrainian labs during the war, or a lab leak sparking another pandemic.
• Critics call it recycled Kremlin propaganda and say the labs were never secret — while also having long dismissed them as a conspiracy theory.
• The argument here is the labs are dangerous on their own, separate from Russia's reasons for invading.

Outlook: Expect more partisan fighting over the documents, but no sign the overseas biolab funding program itself changes soon.