Michael Goodwin: Fauci’s refusal to answer questions at Senate hearing reveals important truth

Because Dr. Anthony Fauci repeatedly cited the Fifth Amendment to avoid answering any questions, last week’s Senate hearing was reduced to a grudge match that produced no new information on the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Bill Maher accused Anthony Fauci of telling "actual lies" about COVID-19 origins, saying the lab leak theory was silenced over racial politics.

Smerconish on Dr. Fauci’s Senate hearing  CNN

Rand Paul's vendetta against the former chief medical adviser shows how we can't move beyond the year from hell

Rand Paul's vendetta against the former chief medical advisor shows how we can't move beyond the year from hell

Hearing underscores years-long partisan divide on lightning-rod issue fuelled by misleading White House claims.

Republicans want to continue to relitigate COVID, and their determination to prosecute Fauci led them to missing out on what could have been a rare opportunity to honestly examine what went right, what went wrong, and what we should do differently the next time the world faces a pandemic.

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The Hidden Impact Of Trump's Public Health Cuts Is Starting To Appear — And Experts Say This Is Only The Beginning  HuffPost

Explainer: Could Fauci face criminal charges for refusing Senate COVID questions?  Reuters

The accusations against Dr. Anthony Fauci, once the nation's leading infectious disease expert, have some experts worrying that these events may further erode public health staffing in the U.S.

“Fauci is right, and every one of those Republican senators is very, very wrong,” the MS NOW host said after the immunologist’s contentious appearance.

Fauci Faces Contempt Threat After Refusing Senate Questions | Dawn News English  Dawn

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Dr. Anthony Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment over a hundred times during a contentious Senate hearing on the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. CBS News' Caitlin Huey-Burns reports.

Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pennsylvania) was not going to attack Fauci, he said, but he wouldn’t defend him, either.

In response to questions from Republican senators, Fauci declined to answer over 100 times, injecting new drama into partisan divides that have festered for years about the origins and handling of the pandemic.

Fauci even invoked "the Fifth" when Senator Josh Hawley, a Republican from Missouri, asked him what day it was and what color his tie and the carpet were.

Fauci, who is 85 and retired in 2022, was subpoenaed by Paul of Kentucky, the chair of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and a longtime adversary.

Dr. Anthony Fauci on Wednesday repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment and declined to answer dozens of questions from senators in a Republican-led committee hearing about his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. The decision, at least for now, shielded Fauci from answering questions that could expose him to accusations o

Senator Rand Paul says: "I think there is a very real chance that he could be prosecuted for that."

Former top US health official Anthony Fauci has refused to answer questions at a tense US Senate hearing on Covid-19, saying he feared Republicans would try to use his testimony to prosecute him for perjury.

Senator Rand Paul said he would seek to hold Fauci in contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions despite having been preemptively pardoned by Joe Biden in 2025

A spicy clash made headlines, but something more sinister is happening here.

The physician and immunologist repeatedly invokes the Fifth Amendment in a Republican-led COVID-19 Senate hearing.

The physician and immunologist repeatedly invokes the Fifth Amendment in a Republican-led COVID-19 Senate hearing.

The celebrity doctor has learned the hard way that he was only a tool in his political allies’ hands.

Six years on from Covid crisis, Republicans still politicizing science – and Fauci remains a political punching bag A US Senate committee hearing featuring Dr Anthony Fauci revealed at least one certainty: six years after the pandemic, politicizing science remains a vital political tactic. The high-profile hearing was