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.”
The claim above was that “It’s not that he’s done anything incriminating”. We do not know this. The preemptive pardon makes this even less likely.
It depends how linked he is to his aide
I have made no claim either way.
Please, go ahead and make it more abundantly clear that you don’t know how the US justice system works. If people could be indicted simply because there’s no proof of their innocence, then no one would be safe from prosecution.
Say you work retail and your coworker gets busted for murder. Are you somehow implicated because you work with the person?
Neither has Fauci. That’s what pleading the fifth is.
Read the initial statement.
“It’s not that he’s done anything incriminating”.
It is not “we can prove in court he did something indicatable”. This is not a case of innocent until proven guilty.
If you are a boss and your subordinate does something wrong that is work related, you are either implicated or negligent. Neither are good.
I’m not correcting Fauci. I’m correcting the inital statement above.