Dr. Anthony Fauci deserves to be indicted — but he probably won’t be, because his role in the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic that he fought so hard to cover up opens up a can of worms that nobody wants to confront.
He has his great patron Joe Biden’s blanket preemptive pardon to keep him safe from federal charges. But the recent indictment of his former factotum, David Morens, on federal charges of conspiracy and record-destruction for scheming to cover up Fauci’s role in funding the risky gain-of-function research on bat viruses at the notorious Wuhan lab in China, where the COVID-19 outbreak almost certainly began, has raised hopes that Fauci is still in the crosshairs of the DOJ.
President Trump has declared Biden’s last-minute autopen pardon of Fauci invalid, which would make it possible that he could be prosecuted for perjury over his 2024 testimony to Congress.
The recent indictment of David Morens on federal charges of conspiracy and record destruction has raised hopes that Dr. Anthony Fauci is still in the crosshairs of the DOJ. Nathan Posner/Shutterstock
But even if that gambit doesn’t work, Fauci’s nemesis, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, has been busily building a case to subpoena the slippery scientist for another round of questioning under oath, in which he will have to come clean about his role in funding the dangerous research in the Wuhan lab via an EcoHealth Alliance cutout, and his surreptitious efforts to discredit the “lab leak” theory that would have exposed his culpability.
Any testimony after January 2025 is fair game for perjury charges.
Fauci’s boss, Francis Collins, didn’t receive an autopen pardon, so he also is fair game.
Then there is the bombshell testimony last week from CIA whistleblower James Erdman, who alleged a multi-agency coverup involving Fauci, who was then the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
“Dr. Fauci’s role in the coverup was intentional,” Erdman testified, alleging that Fauci inserted himself into CIA deliberations about the origins of the virus — once on Feb. 3, 2020, and again on June 4, 2021 — to try to influence the analysis away from the lab-leak hypothesis most CIA analysts were leaning toward and instead persuade them to accept the farcical “natural origins” narrative, in which the virus bubbled up from an animal in a wet market fully adapted to infect humans.
According to Erdman, Fauci provided the Intelligence Community with “a conflicted list of curated subject matter experts, public health officials and scientists,” several of whom were involved in publishing the notorious discredited Nature Medicine paper, “The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2,” which dismissed the accidental lab leak theory.
The idea of an accidental lab leak in Wuhan has always been regarded by honest virologists as the most scientifically plausible explanation. As Professor Nikolai Petrovsky from Flinders University in South Australia told me in 2021,