OPINION:
No bureaucrat has caused more harm to the American people than Dr. Anthony Fauci, formerly director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who led the initial federal response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sen. Roger Marshall, Kansas Republican and one of four physicians in the Senate, has urged the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel to investigate Dr. Fauci’s role in the alleged COVID-19 cover-up. Another physician, Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican, spent the Biden years demanding Dr. Fauci’s firing.
Mr. Marshall’s move is based in part on documents released June 19 by outgoing Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. They show that former intelligence officials shielded Dr. Fauci from whistleblower complaints that he had repeatedly lied to Congress about the origins of COVID-19 and his department’s support for China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology, likely source of the coronavirus.
Over the course of a decade, the National Institutes of Health (the parent body of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) provided millions of dollars to the Wuhan Institute through grants to a company called EcoHealth.
To this day, Dr. Fauci insists that COVID-19 originated in bats sold at a wet market in Wuhan, not at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which was conducting gain-of-function research to develop superviruses.
Of course, it is just a coincidence that among the first COVID-19 victims were workers at the institute, which was supported by Dr. Fauci.
No wonder he has gone bats on the theory of the virus’ origins.
It is also not surprising that, as he was leaving office, President Biden gave Dr. Fauci a pardon for everything he may have done going back to 2014, though doubts have been raised about the pardon’s validity.
It is difficult to fully assess the impact of COVID-19. In the United States, 1.2 million died. The economy suffered trillions of dollars in lost productivity. Kindergarten children were forced to wear face masks on the playground, and elderly nursing home patients died alone, denied the comfort of their families. Workers had to either submit to vaccination or lose their jobs.
As Mr. Biden’s chief medical adviser and head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Fauci helped shape these draconian policies (too bad he could not diagnose age-associated memory loss).
When questioned at a congressional hearing in 2022, Dr. Fauci was heard muttering that Mr. Marshall was a “moron.” The doctor charged that critics were responsible for the death threats he was receiving at the time.
There is a lot for a special counsel to investigate. Because Dr. Fauci is 85, time is wasting.
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