Within days of its founding in 2021, the Whistleblower Protection Project processed a number of impactful FOIA requests that provided telling insights into the now well-known coverup of the laboratory origins of the SARS-Cov-2 virus (COVID-19) that killed over 7 million people worldwide, and 1.1 million in the United States. At WHIPP we employed a deft and artful combination of whistleblowers, investigators, researchers, legal