Fauci conceded that mistakes were made, just not by him.
Dr. Anthony Fauci was at the Capitol on Monday following revelations that his top adviser, Dr. David Morens, and other National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases officials took active steps to avoid Freedom of Information Act requests, including destroying records and intentionally misspelling names to avoid searches.“That was wrong and inappropriate and violated policy,” Fauci said of Morens’s scheme to “disappear” problematic emails. “He should not have done that.
Fauci has a history of these memory problems. When confronted in TV interviews in 2022 about the harms of school closures, a policy he supported numerous times, Fauci saidThough Democrats gushed over Fauci’s pandemic response — “Thank you for your science,” fawned Rep. Jill Tokuda — the only thing we really learned at the hearing was that Fauci wasn’t responsible for. Not the corruption at NIAID, the agency he led.
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