Anthony Fauci enlisted Obama and media friends to beat back Beaglegate allegations: Diary
WASHINGTON — Former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director Dr.Anthony Fauci enlisted the help of “media friends” and former President Barack Obama to beat back allegations in 2021 that his agency funded painful experiments on beagle puppies who were later euthanized, according to records recently released by Sen.
Rand Paul (R-Ky.).The diary entries that Fauci made in that year about the so-called “Beaglegate” scandal show he used his allies in the media and politics to respond to attacks over the NIAID-funded study — despite publicly denying his agency approved the dog experiments at the time. “It is so very clear now that this is a concerted effort to discredit me and assassinate my character,” Fauci wrote in an Oct.26, 2021, entry.
“We have counted the attacks regarding the Beagle dog experiments, but still the attacks continue falsely claiming that NIAID funded the studies.”The newly released diary entries dug up by the Trump administration from 11 separate government servers, according to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.Kennedy Jr., reveal the extent to which Fauci relied on high-powered allies to protect his image. White Coat Waste Project, a bipartisan group founded by a GOP strategist, first exposed the Beaglegate scandal that took up significant space in Fauci’s personal notes. NIAID approved a $375,000 grant from 2019 to 2020 that forced the snouts of sedated pooches into mesh pouches to be eaten by sand flies that had been food-deprived for 24 hours — and the dogs were later euthanized, according to internal grant documents.That resulted in a letter of condemnation from Republican and Democratic members of Congress — and White Coat Waste later accused Fauci of lying in House testimony that he hadn’t used his personal email to conduct government business.In early November 2021, Fauci wrote in diary entries that he also received a call from Obama who “expressed concern” and of...