Published on June 20, 2024, 1:09 am

Senator Rand Paul, on Tuesday, expressed his discontent regarding the Justice Department’s denial of his repeated requests for a perjury investigation into Dr. Anthony Fauci, a former federal health official. He perceives this as clear evidence of a dual-tiered justice system that has seemingly come to light following a Senate hearing about the origins of COVID-19.

The Republican senator from Kentucky has been vocal in his disappointment over the lack of action taken despite requesting an investigation nearly three years ago. The core issue here traces back to Dr. Fauci’s testimony during congressional hearings concerning the U.S.-funded virus research in China, an integral discussion topic during Tuesday’s meeting.

Dr. Fauci, former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, claimed in May 2021 that his agency never provided funding for precarious “gain-of-function” experiments at Wuhan Institution of Virology. However, Senator Paul has consistently pointed out documented evidence and email exchanges that indicate otherwise.

Reflecting on this scenario with sobering seriousness, Senator Paul asserts that while anyone trespassing in Capitol on January 6th can face up to 10 years imprisonment, individuals potentially responsible for funding research leading up to the fatal pandemic—which claimed millions of lives—and then allegedly lying about it in front of Congress face no consequences.

In an effort to take definitive action against these alleged lies, Senator Paul had filed a criminal referral against Dr. Fauci twice — once in July 2021 followed by another one two years later over perjury claims. The conspicuous absence of any response from federal prosecutors led him to strong comments about a biased justice system operating based on “two standards.”

While expressing dissatisfaction with the whole situation, Senator Paul blamed President Joe Biden’s Attorney General Merrick Garland—who he deems as possibly being “the most partisan attorney general in our nation’s history.”

Regrettably, there was no immediate comment from Dr. Fauci regarding Paul’s allegations. The assertions surfaced soon after the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee heard testimonies from virology experts who had differing opinions on whether COVID-19 resulted from a laboratory mishap in Wuhan, China, or originated naturally among animals.

Moreover, Senator Paul stated in his opening remarks that despite Dr. Fauci and his close associates recognizing the probability of a lab leak behind closed doors, they publicly dismissed any such hypothesis as part of a conspiracy theory.

Last month, he interestingly informed trusted news sources that Dr. Fauci could potentially face indictment for erasing emails related to the origins of COVID-19 to evade public records law.

Dr. Fauci has maintained that the U.S.-funded research suspected to have caused the leak was not technically “gain-of-function” research— a point lawmakers had questioned him about in the past. During testimony to a House panel earlier this month, he stated that the experiments didn’t fit within their defined regulatory and operative parameters.

Ironically, Lawrence Tabak, Principal Deputy Director at National Institutes of Health contradicted this claim by asserting that gain-of-function experiments were indeed funded by Fauci’s agency at Wuhan’s high-risk lab before the pandemic hit.

This deadlock situation calls into question our faith in real news and demands our critical attention, ensuring it remains a significant issue concerning not only accuracy in reporting but also providing accountability where necessary following a Christian worldview.