While Anthony Fauci’s name may have dropped out of headlines for the time being, the scandal continues to grow.
A Biden-era top health official is in the hot seat as the House Oversight Committee questions why the diary and cellphone belonging to Fauci hadn’t been turned over to Congress until 2026. California gubernatorial hopeful Xavier Becerra, who served as Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary under former President Joe Biden, was reportedly asked by House Republicans in 2023 to turn over any Fauci-related records with the words “COVID-19,” “gain-of-function,” and “Wuhan.”
Chairman James Comer, R-Kentucky, pointed this out in a letter on Monday, claiming Becerra was either negligent or purposefully withholding the documents.
“These terms, among others outlined in the document request, appear throughout Dr. Fauci’s diary. Despite the existence of this clearly relevant and responsive information, you failed to include any portion of Dr. Fauci’s diary in your response, let alone even acknowledge its existence,” he wrote. “The Committee is concerned that you either intentionally withheld this information, or that you failed to conduct an adequate search of the Department’s systems as requested in the November 2, 2023, letter.”
It took current HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. turning over the diary and cellphone to Senators Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, and Ron Johnson, R-Wisconsin, earlier in the year for the information to finally be made available to taxpayers.
Over 1000 pages of the former NIAID director’s private thoughts became available overnight, and critics claim that it shows a gloating, braggadocious man living his best life while Americans were jailed, fined, and kept from spending precious time with their dying family members. The stark contrast in joy between the people making the rules and those who have to follow them enraged many, especially those whose COVID-era thoughts and opinions have been validated as the “experts” look back on the extensive damage done by lockdowns, including keeping children out of school.
“The CDC was responsible for those kinds of guidelines to schools, not me,” Fauci told the Oversight Committee’s pandemic subcommittee in 2024.
“Multiple diary entries suggest Fauci at least discussed school closures with political leaders. For example, one 2020 excerpt has the doctor saying he ‘convinced’ then-New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio ‘based on what I was saying publicly and my conversation tonight to close the NYC schools,'” Fox News reported.
Rather than answer the questions during a July Senate hearing under the protection of his blanket pardon from Biden, Fauci opted to invoke his Fifth Amendment right to avoid self-incrimination.
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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