In the wake of revelations that former Director the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci may have knowingly lied to Congress in sworn testimony, U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is asking the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation.
Paul has asked U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C., Matthew Graves to open an investigation into testimony Fauci made to the United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) on May 11, 2021, in which Fauci denied funding research at viral laboratory in China where the COVID-19 virus reportedly originated.
“The NIH has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology,” Fauci said under oath in May.
But a month later a June 14, 2023, Government Accountability Office report concluded the Wuhan Institute of Virology did receieve NIH funding.
There are concerns the COVID-19 virus “may have been genetically engineered because gain-of-function research was taking place in Wuhan before the pandemic,” Paul reports.
Now Paul wants to determine if Fauci's statements were illegal.
“I warned Dr. Fauci of the criminal implications of lying to Congress and offered him an opportunity to recant his previous statement,” Paul wrote in a letter to Graves. “Dr. Fauci's testimony is inconsistent with facts that have since come to light.”
“Before Congress, Dr. Fauci denied funding gain-of-function research, to the press he claims to have a dispassionate view on the lab leak hypothesis, and in private he acknowledges gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology to his colleagues. His own colleagues have acknowledged Dr. Fauci's inconsistency. A congressional hearing, however, is not the place for a public servant to play political games – especially when the health and well-being of American citizens is on the line,” Paul writes.
Under 18 U.S.C. § 1001 it is a federal crime to make “any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or representation” as part of “any investigation or review, conducted pursuant to the authority of any committee, subcommittee, commission or office of the Congress, consistent with applicable rules of the House or Senate.”
The penalty for an offense includes criminal fines and imprisonment of up to five years.
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well rand i support you 100% going after fauci. but as it seems asking the present DOJ to go after fauci is alot like getting the fox to protect the hen house
Yes & others: Birx, WHO, UN, colleges
Never mind the rhetoric of ‘an investigation’ which often leads to, as history has proven, republicans making nothing more than fund raising news clippings and no justice for the American people. democrats destroy good people using them as warnings to others who dare try to correct corruption. Establishment & lower level democrats continually flaunt their abuse of power, failure to follow rule of law & oaths of office but only in exceptionally rare cases, are there any punitive actions. And even those amount to insults to citizens more than to their party of thieves. These people ARE felons undeserving to be making multi millions of dollars from never ending salaries, pensions & platinum benefit packages. Step one, prosecute. Two remove from office, Three Jail time & four- have them pay fines & costs of whatever legal actions against them. Robbing the people then having the people pay for their defense is a double kick in the ass for all taxpayers. Better believe Trump isn’t getting free legal aide for all the perjures they concocted against him.
Why does it take so blasted long to get anything done about these rampant little dictators, despots, perverts, grifters, fraudsters, etc., etc., that infect our form of government? They screw up the country in no time at all, and by the time anybody gets ready to do something about it, well…………. nothing gets done about it.
Ooh Rah.
Oh, I’m sure they’ll go after one of their dearest friends…unhunh.
The DOJ won’t investigate Fauci, no way. They only investigate Conservatives. Fauci is quite safe.
Well, Sen. Dr. Rand Paul, whom I greatly respect for his knowledge and his bravery, can ASK the DOJ to investigate Dr, Falsie all he wants. The question is: will they?