"Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul wants the Justice Department to investigate whether President Biden’s top medical adviser, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, committed the crime of lying to Congress when he claimed that the National Institutes of Health (NIH), in which he’s a senior official “has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV)” in China.
And if I was Fauci, who is also the long-time director of NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, I would be lawyering up.
...Before I explain why, it’s important to specify what Paul’s charge is not about.
- It’s not about whether the grants given by Fauci’s agency to the WIV funded any research that went into actually creating the CCP Virus specifically...
- Nor is Paul’s charge about whether these U.S. government agencies financed such research in defiance of a three-year pause on such activity mandated by the Obama administration in October, 2014.
- Nor – and this is crucial – does Paul’s charge have anything to do with the controversy among virologists about defining gain-of-function research.
But what Paul is claiming is that
- Fauci lied in contending that NIAD and NIH never funded activity that is defined explicitly by the U.S. government.
- That matters because as a federal official, Fauci presumably is required to use this definition as his definition.
...the evidence demonstrating that NIAD and NIH funded work that matches now looks pretty cut and dry to me – especially since Paul last week gave Fauci a chance to climb down from his claim, and since new evidence has emerged...
...Moreover, Fauci himself should welcome the probe, for if conducted properly, it could lift this cloud over his head once and for all.
...Moreover, Fauci himself should welcome the probe, for if conducted properly, it could lift this cloud over his head once and for all.
Opposing an investigation, by the same token, can only fuel suspicions that he has something to hide...Read all
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