Dr. Anthony Fauci has declined a request to appear voluntarily before a second Senate panel

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.”

  • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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    4 days ago

    Well. If you ordered the driver to go as fast as possible, take the fastest route by the schools and run every red light, then needlessly excessive risks were taken and the ability for you and your successors to make similar orders should be severely curtailed.

    Are you implying that Fauci ordered the Wuhan lab to take unnecessary risks? Where is the evidence?

    In fact, given that a blanket pardon was granted, it is highly likely that something undisclosed occurred.

    Or it’s evidence that Biden believed that the DOJ would be weaponized and they would target Fauci. Events have proven Biden to be correct in this assessment.

    You are not in a position to claim I am not a criminal.

    You are also in no position to claim Fauci is a criminal. You haven’t provided me evidence you are not a criminal, your “logic” says that because you can’t proved you haven’t done anything incriminating, I should assume that you are a criminal.

    When are you going to provide me evidence that you aren’t a criminal? Or will you admit that you only emotionally feel Fauci did something criminal and you have no evidence, and you’re trying to pass your emotions off as “logic”?

    If Fauci has to prove he’s not a criminal, then so do you. So where’s your proof that you weren’t involved with creating covid?

    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      Are you implying that Fauci ordered the Wuhan lab to take unnecessary risks? Where is the evidence?

      Gain of function research is an unnecessary risk that, by design, creates more dangerous versions of existing viruses. Darpa refused to fund the research.. Instead it was outsourced to Wuhan, funded by the US and approved by Fauci.

      Events have proven Biden to be correct in this assessment.

      Because it seems there is actual fire under the smoke.

      You are also in no position to claim Fauci is a criminal.

      I’m not calling him a criminal at all. I’m saying he may have done incriminating things, which have now been pardoned.

      your “logic” says that because you can’t proved you haven’t done anything incriminating, I should assume that you are a criminal.

      Not quite. You cannot assume I am not a criminal. We cannot assume Fauci did nothing incriminating.

      When are you going to provide me evidence that you aren’t a criminal?

      I don’t need to. Whether I am or not has no relevance.

      Or will you admit that you only emotionally feel Fauci did something criminal

      Fauci has means, motivation, opportunity, conspiracy accused colleagues and a blanket pardon. If the US did fund research that lead to covid, he is right at the top of responsibility with the most to gain from an unlawful cover-up and the protection needed to survive any attack. These are facts, not feelings.

      If Fauci has to prove he’s not a criminal, then so do you.

      He doesn’t. What you have to do is admit the possibility that he may have done something incriminating.