Ex-ABC News correspondent Terry Moran made an explosive claim this week about his former employer and how it allegedly overhauled a report he led on the COVID lab leak theory after running it first by Dr.Anthony Fauci.In an interview published Friday by "The Fifth Column" podcast, Moran recalled a time he said he felt the "heavy hand of censorship" at the Disney-owned network.Moran said in early 2021, he had seen discussions from "smart and serious" people online floating the possibility that COVID had leaked from a lab and that ABC's "Nightline" allowed him to pursue a story about the theory.Moran recalled talking to various scientists and Trump administration officials in a piece that he said did not make any conclusive claims but nevertheless "laid it out."FAUCI'S DIARY SHOWS HE FED QUESTIONS TO JOURNALISTS, BUILT FRIENDSHIPS WITH MEDIA FIGURESFormer ABC News correspondent Terry Moran claimed the network overhauled his report on the COVID lab leak theory after sending a copy to Dr.
Anthony Fauci.(Paula Lobo/Getty)"We broke a little news that that lab had been funded by the Chinese military, despite the 'Bat Lady' [Chinese virologist Shi Zhengli] saying no, it hadn't...
And we kind of laid it out," Moran said."And at the end of the day, my own personal feeling was, you know, it's probably a little bit more likely it's natural.
But if you told me it had leaked from the lab, fine.It's probably not cooked up.
It's probably not a ‘Frankenvirus.’""And the day that it's supposed to air, it gets reviewed, and it comes back to me, and it is incomprehensible," Moran continued."And I had never been angrier.
I'm in the booth–""Are these lawyers?" podcast co-host Michael Moynihan asked."Lawyers, standards and, I was told, Fauci," Moran responded."And I said, 'I can't do this.' And they're going to air and it's a 15-minute piece or whatever.
And I'm cursing and screaming in the the booth."TOP 4 EXPLOSIVE MOMENTS FROM CIA WHISTLEBLOWER'S TESTIMONY ON ALLEGED COVID-1...