House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) has been heavily involved in letters lately. Last Friday, it was Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and the third Justice Department prosecutor, Matthew Colangelo, who became the lead prosecutor in the Trump case in Manhattan. On Thursday, it was top prosecutor in the Mar-a-Lago/secret documents case, Jay Bratt.
Now Jordan has a letter to Dr. Anthony Fauci following his June 3 testimony before the Oversight Committee’s Special Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. As Jordan explains, as chairman of the Judiciary Committee and the Special Subcommittee on Arming the Federal Government, he (and the committee) are investigating “how and to what extent the executive branch has coerced or colluded with corporations and other intermediaries to censor Americans’ free speech.” Given Fauci’s role on the COVID-19 response team, it is assumed that he has relevant information.
Letter from the House Judiciary Committee to Anthony Fauci, 07.06.24:
“On June 3, 2024, you testified before the Special Subcommittee of the Oversight Committee that you played no role in efforts to downplay the lab leak theory. That is patently false.” pic.twitter.com/WzDr9eZ7eG
— Richard H. Ebright (@R_H_Ebright) June 7, 2024
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But this isn’t just a polite question. Jordan’s letter makes it clear that they are calling Fauci out on his bullshit (emphasis added).
In 2021, when you served as Chief Medical Advisor to President Biden and Chief Medical Advisor for the Response Team, senior Biden White House officials from that team conducted months of censorship efforts. Internal Facebook communications obtained by the Committee and the Special Subcommittee show that one of the world’s largest social media platforms censored the lab leak theory due to “pressure” from the Biden White House. In keeping with the suppression of those who dared to express an opposing viewpoint, you and other bureaucrats reportedly “ostracized” Dr. Robert Redfield, then-Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), for “holding a different view” and believing the virus came “from a lab in Wuhan.”
On June 3, 2024, you testified before the House Oversight Committee’s Special Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic (Special Subcommittee on Coronavirus) that you had “kept an open mind” about the lab leak theory and had not participated in “efforts to downplay the lab leak theory.” This is obviously wrong. This is also contradicted by Facebook’s decision to remove content on the lab leak theory because of “pressure” from the Biden administration, particularly the response team of which you were a part. To better understand how and to what extent the executive branch has coerced or colluded with companies and other intermediaries to censor Americans’ free speech, we respectfully request that you appear before the committee for a transcribed interview.
In addition, a recent report by the Select Committee on Coronavirus claims that you may have “participated in a conspiracy at the highest levels. [National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)]”to ‘destroy’ or ‘hide’ official records regarding the origins of COVID-19, including by conducting official business through your private email and deleting official records to circumvent the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and public disclosure to the American people.
The letter asks Fauci to provide communications to the executive branch regarding the suppression of information, as well as internal NIAID communications regarding the deletion of content, and to contact the committee to set his interview date by June 21. To add to the fun, he is instructed to review all of the materials provided to refresh his memory so that his answers in the interview are more than just variations on “I don’t know.”
We also ask that you review the documents provided to the Committee prior to your interview to refresh your memory. On November 23, 2022, you were questioned in Murthy v. Missouri (then Missouri v. Biden) and said “I don’t remember,” “I don’t recall,” or variations thereof at least 212 times.
Yes, yes, I know – another strongly worded letter. We’ve all become a bit cynical about how these things work, but we have to remember that the process generally involves first a letter and then a subpoena. And even those don’t have much teeth when Republicans only hold the House. Jordan and his committees can find witnesses for contempt of Congress and file criminal charges to their heart’s content, but with a Biden-controlled Justice Department, their enforcement options are restricted.
So it may not be much, but it is still better than nothing considering the information that came to lightweight during the 118th Congress. Maybe I am still too sanguine. In any case, we will see if and to what extent “the science” responds.
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