Dr. Anthony Fauci on Friday declined a request to appear voluntarily before a second Senate panel after majority Republicans on the Homeland Security Committee voted along partisan lines last week to hold the longtime infectious disease expert in contempt.
In a pointed letter to Sen. Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican, a lawyer for the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said any effort to compel him to appear before a Senate subcommittee, after a contentious July 29 hearing, would be to "impermissibly harass or degrade Dr. Fauci for political purposes.”
If they caused the problem it is relevant.
Leaked Grant Proposal Details High-Risk Coronavirus Research This research plan was rejected inside the US, so abroad is the likely place where this could be done.
The point is that fauci’s associates were deliberately keeping communications a secret. Literally a conspiracy.
Maybe they want to hide that they funded the gain of function research that lead to millions of deaths.
To find out exactly what research Wuhan was doing for Niaid, and who authorised it. This would lead to even stricter controls on gain of function research worldwide.
I doubt they would. Most likely the virus was accidentally “walked out of the lab”.
I don’t care who cracks down. I don’t want dangerous viruses to be artificially mutated to make them even more dangerous for humans.
Are you under the impression that Dr. Anthony Fauci worked at the research lab in Wuhan?
This is like wanting to arrest a fire fighter because you suspect someone else burned down your house. You went in too deep on the anti-vax conspiracy theories, bud.
No. Are you? However, he may have been (ultimately) responsible for authorising funding for the research in Wuhan that created Covid.
Do you think Fauci intended for the Wuhan lab to release a virus?
Not at all. I think it’s highly likely everyone involved was working for the betterment of mankind.
However, no person, group, institution or country wants to be shown to be responsible for Covid so it’s in the interests of the Chinese to destroy all physical evidence and for the Americans to destroy all financial records.
The American financial records were not destroyed… how else do you think it’s known that the Wuhan lab got US grant money.
And sure the Chinese probably would destroy records. What do you think Fauci could do about that? Do you think he would know about activities China? He didn’t work for the CIA.
So what is the point of getting testimony from a retired doctor about records being potentially destroyed records in China? What’s the point of putting him in jail for something that happened in China?
This isn’t about holding the government to account. It’s about getting revenge on Fauci because people foolishly blame him for the pandemic. Arresting the fireman because you suspect arson in another country.
The Gmail conversations used to avoid FOIA disclosure point to a conspiracy.
Yes, because he (probably) approved funding for the gain of function research that lead to Covid.
Agreed. And his pardon should protect him.
But we still can’t claim that he has not done anything incriminating.
If you order a product to be delivered to your house and the driver of the delivery truck runs over a kid, then it can be proven that you approved funding an activity that resulted in the death of a child. So what should happen next? Should you go to prison?
You’re arguing from emotion and there’s no logic to anything. Whatever happened in China was clearly not intentional. There may or may not have been an accident. If there was an accident and there was US funding involved, it doesn’t matter if Fauci personally approved the funding. Just like it wouldn’t matter if you approved funding for something and then an accident happens, you wouldn’t go to prison.
See when you go too deep into conspiracy theory land you start thinking everyone is 100% competent, there are no accidents and people do malicious things fro no reason. If you think about it rationally, US sent a grant to a research lab to do… you know… research. There may or may not have been an accident at the lab. Even if we assume there was an accident at the lab, that does not indicate there was anything criminal happening.
Other than the concept of innocent until proven guilty. Fauci wasn’t proven guilty of anything.
Going down this route, I can’t prove that you’ve never done anything incriminating. So is it fair for me to assume you’re a criminal?
Well. If you ordered the driver to go as fast as possible, take the fastest route by the schools and run every red light, then needlessly excessive risks were taken and the ability for you and your successors to make similar orders should be severely curtailed. If you then tried to hide evidence that any enquiry would be interested in, then that would be illegal and should be lawfully punished.
Quite the opposite. I’m saying it is logically impossible to claim the negative that Fauci had not done anything incriminating. In fact, given that a blanket pardon was granted, it is highly likely that something undisclosed occurred.
Legally irrelevant but reputationally devastating. More than enough reason for illegal cover ups.
The blanket pardon nullifies this argument. Fauci may have done any number of incriminating acts prior to 2024, but none will ever be proven in court. It is not possible to claim there weren’t any.
Now you’ve got it. This statement can’t logically be made.
You are not in a position to claim I am not a criminal.