The Fauci diaries
There have been a lot of news stories about revelations contained in Fauci’s diaries of the COVID years. For example, there’s this about how much he had to say about himself and his newfound fame:
A surprising recurring theme throughout the diaries is Fauci’s growing awareness of his own public profile during the most intense months of the pandemic, which ultimately claimed more than 7 million officially reported lives worldwide, including roughly 1.2 million in the United States.
On April 7, 2020, after recording the latest pandemic developments, Fauci wrote: “Press still hot and heavy about me. Multiple stories per day directly or indirectly involving me.”
Why would that be a surprising theme? I suppose it would matter if that topic completely dominated the diary, or if he was writing things like, “I am one of the most wonderful people of all time.” But merely noticing that he’d become a celebrity isn’t all that strange. The fact is, he was one of the most famous people in the world at the time, and it happened rather suddenly.
However – and it’s a big “however” – the diaries certainly reveal other extremely disturbing things about Fauci. But maybe the word “reveal” isn’t quite right, either, because they are mostly things we already knew. So perhaps the correct word would be “underline.”
[Fauci was] A man who claimed Covid had a mortality rate of a flu in his diary.
[Fauci was] A man who claimed Covid had a mortality rate 10X of a flu under oath in front of Congress.
Or the fact that Fauci was telling us not to have family gatherings because of the possibility of the spread of COVID at the same time he himself was having social dinners with none other than Jake Tapper.
It was released today that Anthony Fauci was dining with Jake Tapper at his home during a federally imposed quarantine.
We already knew, long ago, that most of our “betters” were defying the restrictive rules they were setting down for us peons. We already knew that they were allowing the 2020 demonstrations in the streets when all other gatherings were forbidden. We already knew they made up most of the rules with almost no scientific backing, and we already knew they strongly suspected a lab leak was the cause of the pandemic long before they admitted it.
That doesn’t mean it’s not still infuriating and destructive. But it’s no surprise at all.
I also see in the comments of most posts and articles on the subject some variation of the following: “Fauci should be arrested, tried, and sentenced, but the GOP doesn’t care.” Well, that’s absurd, because Biden gave Fauci a blanket pardon. Whether he could be tried for perjury if he lies at the Congressional hearings that will be forthcoming – in other words, whether the pardon will extend to future offenses involving his past behavior that has already been pardoned – I’m not 100% certain. But there can’t be any federal prosecutions for his previous alleged crimes.
Why was his diary released now?
A small, petty little man, Fauci reminds me of Richard Rich from “A Man for all Seasons”. In the afterlife, may Fauci reap all the ‘rewards’ he so richly deserves.
Not entirely certain, Sennacherib, but think it’s tied to Fauci’s pending appearance before a Senate committee.
Find a country with the death penalty like Japan.
Extradite him to be tried for crimes against humanity. Hopefully, he will be found guilty and executed by hanging.
Chases: Hanging? If we’re gonna extradite him to Japan, have them hand him a short, sharp knife, and tell him he has the opportunity to commit seppuku or visit some bat-filled caves.
I’m wondering how his ‘diary’ came to be a public document. Has anybody seen a description of it? The picture of a leather-bound book with a lock, sitting on a dresser doesn’t seem to fit. Was it some kind of official office diary or something? If so, his entries are rather indiscreet, reflective of questionable judgment.
My gut had been telling me that he was lying through his teeth from the get-go. Everybody with any common sense knew in their heart that this didn’t come from any remote cave, to be transmitted across species in a wet market before finding humans, not with an advanced virus lab down the street. And the fact that the Chinese were welding doors and gates shut, jailing people in their own apartment buildings was the kind of ruthless desperation you see in contagion disaster movies featuring Curtis LeMay type army characters, when a dangerous bioweapon escapes.
Good for Rand Paul.
F, the Japanese execute by hanging.
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@ Neo > ” But there can’t be any federal prosecutions for his previous alleged crimes.”
I have seen some suggestions that states can go after him, because he was directly responsible for deaths of their citizens, and lied to the governors via his public pronouncements.
I am all in favor of trying him in every possible venue, because his actions killed people in every city in America.
And yes I am still angry about that.
The idea of states prosecuting Fauci for lying to state officials is interesting. If he’s called to testify in Congress, his only option will be to take the Fifth and say nothing.
Besides the economic damage from his policies, the damage to children from school closures, and the deaths, he destroyed faith in public health officials. Who will listen to “the experts” again?
Jesse Michaels points out that when scientists start to approach various major breakthroughs they often mysteriously also start to die or to disappear.
The story about the missing or dead U.S. scientists who had been working on classified defense programs seems to have dropped off the radar.
Jesse Michael points out that something similar has happened before, this time in England when–between 1982 and 1990–25 engineers and computer specialists who had been working for GEC Marconi (and apparently on a cooperative SDI program with the U.S.) one by one, suffered bizarre supposed suicides, unlikely deadly accidents, or they just disappeared, with many of the circumstances surrounding their bizarre and statistically improbable and unlikely deaths pretty obviously pointing to foul play.*
• See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWJUkEBHrtU&rco=1er
Make that “Michels,” who says that no one was ever prosecuted, and that all of these cases were eventually closed.
So, is someone, some country, or some Agency taking out our scientists, in order to retard progress in certain critical areas?
And the tin foil hats never want for a new speaker.
The beginning of my conversation with Grok earlier today:
I am going to go out on a limb and posit that Fauci thought his behavior was a positive thing. That lying would be seen as the right thing to do. Hence he wasn’t worried about them coming out. I think that sort of personality quirk is the easiest explanation. People seldom think they are doing bad things.
I needed an explanation of why Fauci wouldn’t hide such material. Indeed, I suspect he was proud of it.
I don’t expect to see Dem villains frog-marched to federal prison in orange jumpsuits. Sob!
But I do want to see the record made clear. Even leftists gave up on defending Julius Rosenberg after the USSR Venona decrypts came out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venona_project
I asked my A.I. to look into where this ‘Dear Diary’ stuff came from, and it concluded with this:
…’The material is presented by Sen. Rand Paul as Fauci’s own contemporaneous daily notes/journal from his time as NIAID director, released through the Senate Homeland Security Committee’s oversight investigation just before Fauci’s subpoenaed July 29 testimony — but the specific chain of custody (how the committee physically obtained the diary from Fauci or NIH) has not been disclosed by Paul’s office, and no news organization has independently confirmed that detail….‘
Rand Paul is hopping mad, and clearly has been for a long time, when it comes to Dr. Anthony Fauci. He’s just put this out a couple of days in advance of Fauci’s testimony, setting him up just like bowling pins.
Related…and even uglier (if one can believe it…though I expect that one most likely can):
“Flashback: Fauci Funded Technique To Hide Evidence Of Genetic Engineering According To RFK Jr.”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/flashback-fauci-funded-technique-hide-evidence-genetic-engineering-according-rfk-jr
— AesopFan
I have little use for him either. But it’s not entirely clear exactly what laws he broke, either. I’m sure we could make a case for some, but you can do that for almost anyone in public life if you try hard enough.
This business of tit for tat prosecutions is extraordinarily dangerous. Yes, if we try hard enough, we can probably find some technical way around the pardons. State prosecutions, sneaky loopholes, something. But this is precisely the sort of thing that turned the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire, too.
I would settle for discrediting him and his so completely that he can’t get a booking on Radio Podunk at 2:00 a.m. Given his immense ego, that might be worse punishment than jail.
Well, after all is said and done, it IS the Liberal Media…
“Fauci’s diary shows he fed questions to journalists, built friendships with media figures;
“Jake Tapper, Dana Bash, Chuck Todd, Andrea Mitchell, George Stephanopoulos were among those he grew chummy with behind the scenes“—
https://www.foxnews.com/media/faucis-diary-shows-he-fed-questions-journalists-built-friendships-media-figures
+ Bonus…
“Biden’s classified docs narrative crumbles amid release of ghostwriter tapes: ‘Be careful’;
“Recordings between Joe Biden and memoir ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer reveal halting speech and memory struggles during the 2017 sessions”—
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bidens-classified-docs-narrative-crumbles-amid-release-ghostwriter-tapes
— neo
Make of this what you will, but this is (real as far as I know) a picture of Fauci’s home office during the whole mess.
https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/fauci-home-office-feat-image.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024
Note giant portrait of himself.
Democrats, and their useful idiots, never let a crisis go to waste. The high-profile Congressional committees do just enough to expose a little scandal but never seem to get up the gumption for much more. Weren’t the Clinton’s subpoenaed to testify but never did?
Democrats seem to know how to use power more “effectively” in a Mafia sort of way. I wonder if I can get some “bleach bit” from the Hillary website in case Democrats win the Majority.
I do think there is a very good chance Fauci will totally screw up at these hearings. He no doubt thinks whatever he does will be covered by the Deep State and his followers.
Allow me to burst a bubble, viz., that Fauci will somehow be forced to “come clean” at the hearing tomorrow. I suspect he will either 1) claim the Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination or 2) produce a lot of “I don’t recall” or “That is what I believed to be the case at that time” responses. Probably a mix of all three. Although the pardons would ostensibly remove the Fifth Amendment privilege, he could credibly argue that he is unprotected against prosecutions by state authorities, especially given the large number of people who have suggested that. Even if his claim of privilege is unfounded, he can still make it and fight subsequent efforts to pierce it, which would take years to resolve. At his advanced age, he is more likely to die than be prosecuted. Also, his chumminess with so many “journalists” assures a dearth of stories about the testimony or anything else having to do with his egregious misbehavior. So far, only Fox seems at all interested in publishing anything about Fauci. Remember, “journalists” perceive it to be their duty to cover any story not conforming to their chosen narrative, with a blanket, until it dies.
If you look at a chart of the mortality rate for covid, you have to conclude its not much of a killer, except for the old. When I had covid, it was almost asymptomatic.
https://swprs.org/why-covid-19-is-a-strange-pandemic/
The whole COVID mess—an exercise, one of whose purposes was apparently to see just how much public obedience could be coerced from a largely credulous population, willing to give up many of their Rights in the name of “science” in an “Emergency”—exposed stupidity and corruption all the way down.
From what reporting I’ve seen, Fauci was also deeply involved in the funding and facilitating of highly dangerous “gain of function” research–both here in the U.S. and at the lab in Wuhan–and, then, he apparently made strenuous efforts to cover his involvement in this whole deadly mess up.
Along the way, of course, Fauci and his cast of characters also managed to destroy a lot of the credibility which had traditionally been attached to the ideas and pronouncements of our public health, medical, and scientific establishments.
Why, one wonders, was it so urgent and necessary for Biden to grant Fauci a blanket pardon as Biden left office?
I’ve seen it reported that–in the last days of the Biden administration – Fauchi was frantically begging the Biden White House for a pardon.
Talk about “consciousness of guilt.”
What else has Fauci been involved in that the Biden WH knew about?
Geoffrey,
But for Wales……
But not for The Great Orange Whale!
At the end of May, Jeffrey Tucker laid out the breadth and depth of the Fauci conspiracy (11m). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HuaQBFEbuQ
Fauci feared that a global pandemic he and others caused would be blamed on them. Ergo, their motive to cover-up the lab leak origins, and instead.
These “shenanigans” created motives to perpetuate a cover-up on the people and the world. It began evolving. The added motive grew to continue lockdowns through summer and fall to foil any Trump re-election
Tucker gives us a strangely and alarmingly coherent explanation of this coup d’tat conspiracy on a justly elected President, and the “treatment of the people used as lab rats.”
Malevolence unleashed to preserve a secret and prevent accountability. No wonder Biden’s henchmen arranged a blanket pardon for him.
— Steve
Yep. Pretty much this.
The fantasy of throwing your political enemy in a jail cell may be satisfying, and s/he may well deserve it. But it’s rarely ever possible and even less often is doing so actually a good idea even when you could potentially do it.
The good news is that even though most of the Old Media will ignore anything negative about Fauci, the story will still mostly get out. Their power is only a shadow of what it once was.
Yes the tide is running against them.
Om,
Right you are!
Our friend Mike K offered his exasperation at being subject to ‘doctors who hadn’t treated a patient in 40 years’. Please note Dr. Atlas’ account of the indifference of Fauci, Birx, and Redfield to the studies being conducted (copies of which he brought to meetings) and the subsequent revelation that F, B, and R were colluding to resign en bloc if Trump fired one of them. These people were bureaucratic operators, not physicians or scientists.
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One thing which strikes one as odd is how Fauci was left in place for 37 years and remained in place for more than a decade past the point when faculty members typically retire and when senior clinical faculty typically downshift and relinquish consequential leadership positions in favor of consulting roles more apposite for emeritus faculty. Why did no one to whom he reported during the course of six administrations think to tell him it was time to shuffle off? There was a man named Robert Ball who was Commissioner of Social Security for 12 years; that was at the time an exceptionally long tenure for a federal bureau chief and I believe it still is. How did Anthony Fauci acquire untouchable J-Edgar-Hoover / Hyman-Rickover status?
The fantasy of throwing your political enemy in a jail cell may be satisfying, and s/he may well deserve it. But it’s rarely ever possible and even less often is doing so actually a good idea even when you could potentially do it.
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Okey doke. Cannot help but notice that Herbert Porter, Donald Segretti, Dwight Chapin, Charles Colson, Jeb Magruder, Herbert Kalmbach, H.R. Haldeman, John Erlichman, John Mitchell, and John Dean all did time, several of them them for process crimes, penny ante offenses, and vague offenses you find in the U.S. Code. Not to mention the J6 defendants. Not to mention the legal counsel for Trump who have been disbarred for no good reason….
So the conspiracy theorists can say, yet again, “We were right all along.”
Art Deco:
Kaboom!
How soon some forget what has been done to Republicans by “our betters.”
Fauci hid a bad reaction to a vax. I think this SOB is a dead man walking. Mass murdering war criminal.
— om
I certainly haven’t forgotten. Not to mention the bogus charges against Trump and the treatment of Giuiliani and so on.
But it doesn’t change anything. If we don’t manage to break this cycle, then this cycle is going to break America.
In practice, what do you gain by throwing Fauci in a cell, even if you can? His supporters will see a victim and rally to him and look for paybacks. Most of the rest of the country just wants to forget him. It won’t have any meaningful political benefit on election day. A wash at best.
It might feel good for a little while, but that would be it in terms of real world benefits.
Plus, you probably won’t be able to do it in the first place.
As Steve noted, odds are good he’ll just ‘forget’ or otherwise deflect and nothing much will follow. Frustrating, I agree, but it’s by far the most likely scenario.
Worst case scenario is some hotheaded idiot or mentally ill person shoots him or something and hands the Dems a martyr.
HC68:
“Pour encourager les autres”
Voltaire figured it out in the 18th century. Those old timey days. How quaint; actions and consequences.
HC68 is right.
Just spotlight and highlight, over and over IN GRAND and GLORIOUS DETAIL, the good doctor’s (and wifey’s) consistent and oh-so-efficient death-and-destruction antics together with his extraordinary clever efforts to cover up those
shenanigansmultiple CRIMES (with the help of a most conscientious DPOTUS and MEDIA, but I repeat myself); and then talk about the lovely couple’s resulting (hard-earned!) stash of millions upon millions upon millions of dollars—is American a great country or what!!; and then, mentioning in passing the FAUCIAN bargain he received from “Biden”, let all this fascinating information drip, drip, drip down, doing its gentle, subtle…INEXORABLE work…Oh, wait…
Good morning. It’s 0730 here on the west slope of the Sierra Nevada. Fox is covering the Fauchi hearing live. I switched to local news (to see if it was shooting or stabbing day) after witnessing Fauchi’s 5th invocation of the 5A, or is it 6th invocation. Anyway he’s not talking.
That tells me a couple things: 1) he believes state level prosecution threats are real; and 2) he is not confident that the pardon from Dementia Joe will hold up.
The “court of public opinion” does not like people invoking the Fifth.
Remind me, how can one continually plead the 5th if one has all the immunity one needs (and then some) till one arrives on the doorstep of Perdition?
Are you certain he pleaded the 5th and didn’t merely “forget”?
@ HC68: from om: “Pour encourager les autres”
Because the Democrats never suffer ANY consequences, not even humiliation (the press covers for them), loss of jobs or benefits (the Russia-Russia few who were punished had them restored!), or anything else, never mind jail or (for mass murderers!) hanging.
@ Barry > “and then talk about the lovely couple’s resulting (hard-earned!) stash of millions upon millions upon millions of dollars”
The US taxpayers ought to at least get their money back from these grifting, thieving, lying murderers.
Yes, I am still angry.
My grandson shot himself because of (IMO) acute depression from being separated from school and friends, and possibly medical complications of the vaccine.
Yes, I am still angry.
— Another Mike
— Barry Meislin
The State prosecution is one potential issue. Another is that the pardons don’t cover Federal offenses committed subsequent to the pardon. As far as I know that’s not legally possible.
Which if my understanding is correct means that it Fauci were to demonstrably perjure himself during these hearings, that would be prosecutable, at least in theory.
— Aesop Fan
I don’t blame you at all.
I (and Steve and others) are not saying you’re wrong to be angry, or that Fauci doesn’t deserve that anger. We’re saying that it’s probably not going to be satisfied, and there’s a good chance that trying to make it happen would backfire.
We saw it happen to the Dems just two years ago. Their bogus prosecutions ended up strengthening Trump. Prosecution of Fauci might not be bogus, but there’s no guarantee it would end well from our POV, either legally or politically.