Miranda Devine: Anthony Fauci cant escape his original COVID lie

Dr.Anthony Fauci deserves to be indicted — but he probably won’t be, because his role in the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic that he fought so hard to cover up opens up a can of worms that nobody wants to confront.He has his great patron Joe Biden’s blanket preemptive pardon to keep him safe from federal charges.

But the recent indictment of his former factotum, David Morens, on federal charges of conspiracy and record-destruction for scheming to cover up Fauci’s role in funding the risky gain-of-function research on bat viruses at the notorious Wuhan lab in China, where the COVID-19 outbreak almost certainly began, has raised hopes that Fauci is still in the crosshairs of the DOJ.President Trump has declared Biden’s last-minute autopen pardon of Fauci invalid, which would make it possible that he could be prosecuted for perjury over his 2024 testimony to Congress.But even if that gambit doesn’t work, Fauci’s nemesis, Kentucky Sen.Rand Paul, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, has been busily building a case to subpoena the slippery scientist for another round of questioning under oath, in which he will have to come clean about his role in funding the dangerous research in the Wuhan lab via an EcoHealth Alliance cutout, and his surreptitious efforts to discredit the “lab leak” theory that would have exposed his culpability.Any testimony after January 2025 is fair game for perjury charges.Fauci’s boss, Francis Collins, didn’t receive an autopen pardon, so he also is fair game.Then there is the bombshell testimony last week from CIA whistleblower James Erdman, who alleged a multi-agency coverup involving Fauci, who was then the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.“Dr.

Fauci’s role in the coverup was intentional,” Erdman testified, alleging that Fauci inserted himself into CIA deliberations about the origins of the virus — once on Feb.3, 2020, and again on June 4, 2021 — to try to in...