In any normal workplace in America, if a government employee stored classified documents on an unprotected personal computer and lost them all to hackers, that person would face criminal charges. Full stop. The Federal Records Act doesn’t offer wiggle room here – mishandling government records carries penalties of up to three years in prison, a $2,000 fine, or both. These aren’t suggestions. They’re laws.

And yet, for nearly four decades, one of the most powerful unelected officials in American history glided through Washington without consequence. A permanent fixture of the bureaucratic class, untouchable and unaccountable. Now, thanks to newly released diary pages pried loose by Senator Rand Paul’s investigation, the public can finally see just how reckless this official truly was.

From Just the News:

Newly released diary pages belonging to Dr. Anthony Fauci, one of the government’s most influential chief health officials for nearly four decades, show that he disparaged Donald Trump, praised Chinese health officials, and lost a set of confidential records in a ransomware attack.

The files were the latest batch of entries in Fauci’s so-called diary to be released publicly by Senator Rand Paul, R-Ky., the Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee. Paul is currently investigating whether Fauci or his aides destroyed government documents to avoid disclosure under public information requests.

There’s plenty to unpack in these diary pages – the partisan venom, the cozy relationship with Beijing – but one revelation deserves the most scrutiny. Anthony Fauci lost confidential government files, including sensitive documents tied to the anthrax attacks, because he stored them in an unprotected folder on his personal computer. Not a secure government server. His C: drive.

His own words spell it out:

“I was attacked by ‘Ransonware’ and my entire unprotected folder (CDrive – Word Files) was encrypted. Luckily, I had a backup of most of my historical daily notes and my autobiography was on a separate, nonaccessible folder. However, I lost all of the letters that I have ever written as well as other important documents in the Word Files folder.”

Notice what Fauci considered a stroke of luck – his personal autobiography survived. How reassuring. As for the confidential government documents? He admitted he originally created the folder “for the confidential files that I made right after the anthrax attacks since I did not want them accessible to anyone.” Then he piled more sensitive material into the same vulnerable location and offered a breezy, “Bad idea!!!”

Bad idea doesn’t begin to cover it. Who has those encrypted files now? Was the breach ever reported to federal authorities? Was there an investigation? The American people – whose tax dollars funded Fauci’s office for decades – are owed answers. So far, they’ve gotten silence.

Contempt for the president, compliments for Beijing

The negligence with American secrets becomes even more galling when you see where Fauci’s sympathies actually pointed. He couldn’t be bothered to secure classified files, but he had plenty of energy to trash the elected president in his diary and roll out the red carpet for Chinese government officials.

“Trump made a fool of himself in the debate,” Fauci scribbled during the 2016 campaign. After the election, he assessed one of Trump’s cabinet nominees – Congressman Tom Price, tapped for HHS Secretary – with dripping condescension: “He is against ACA, Medicare/Medicaid, abortion, anti-science and he is an orthopedic surgeon.” By January 2019, Fauci had graduated to calling for impeachment. “He is acting more and more bizarre. Should be impeached,” he wrote.

Meanwhile, he welcomed the head of China’s CDC to the NIH with open arms. “Very smart and nice guy,” Fauci gushed about Gao Fu – the same official who oversaw China’s disease agency during the COVID-19 pandemic and its disastrous lack of transparency.

Scorn for America’s elected leader. Admiration for Beijing’s. Quite revealing.

A pardon designed to obstruct

So why hasn’t Fauci faced a single legal consequence? Because President Biden handed him a pardon covering all potential federal offenses committed between 2014 and 2024. Not for a specific crime – for anything and everything, across an entire decade. Senator Paul has argued the pardon should be challenged in court, telling Just the News, “It’s a pardon not for a specific crime, and it’s a pardon over a 10-year period.”

When Paul hauled Fauci before his committee to testify, the retired doctor invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. Multiple constitutional experts have since questioned whether a pardoned individual even retains that right. Paul’s committee referred Fauci to the Justice Department for contempt of Congress.

The legal avenues exist. They need to be pursued – aggressively.

Anthony Fauci lost confidential national security documents to hackers, ridiculed the elected president while courting Chinese officials, and then sheltered behind a pardon engineered to place him beyond the reach of American justice. Any ordinary citizen would already be sitting in a courtroom. Fauci deserves no special treatment. Prosecute him.

Key Takeaways

• Fauci lost confidential anthrax-related government files to a ransomware attack on an unprotected personal computer.
• His diary reveals open hostility toward President Trump while praising Chinese government health officials.
• Biden’s unprecedented blanket pardon covering 2014-2024 may not shield Fauci, according to constitutional scholars.
• Senator Rand Paul has referred Fauci for contempt of Congress and continues investigating potential destruction of federal records.

Sources: Just The News