{"id":1620686,"date":"2022-08-23T17:17:29","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T21:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1620686"},"modified":"2022-08-23T17:17:37","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T21:17:37","slug":"rand-paul-warns-nih-not-to-destroy-documents-ahead-of-potential-fauci-grilling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rand-paul-warns-nih-not-to-destroy-documents-ahead-of-potential-fauci-grilling\/","title":{"rendered":"Rand Paul Warns NIH Not To Destroy Documents Ahead Of Potential Fauci Grilling"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frand-paul-warns-nih-not-to-destroy-documents-ahead-of-potential-fauci-grilling%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1620686&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Senator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/rand-paul\">Rand Paul<\/a> (R-KY) called on the National Institutes of Health, demanding that the organization retain all communications and any other documents in Dr. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/anthony-fauci\">Anthony Fauci<\/a>\u2018s possession as his retirement looms closer.<\/p>\n<p>Paul issued a letter \u2014 the contents of which were first <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/08\/23\/rand-paul-letter-nih-preserve-documents-communications-anthony-fauci-possession\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published<\/a> by The Daily Caller \u2014 to the NIH, asking that they preserve all records, e-mails, electronic documents, and data that Fauci may have created or shared while at the NIH. Paul asked that they take special care to preserve any data or communications relating to COVID or to any coronavirus-related research conducted by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) while Fauci held the top spot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn light of this announcement, I formally request you ensure the preservation of all documents and communications within Dr. Fauci\u2019s possession related to his tenure at the National Institutes of Health (NIH),\u201d Paul wrote upon learning of Fauci\u2019s upcoming retirement from government employ.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis information is critical to ensure that Congress has access to information necessary to conduct proper oversight regarding events that took place during Dr. Fauci\u2019s tenure with the agency. Specifically, I request you preserve all records, e-mail, electronic documents, and data created by or shared with Dr. Fauci during his tenure at NIH that relate to COVID-19 including, but not limited to, NIAID-funded coronavirus research. This preservation request also includes all records of official business conducted on non\u00ad official accounts,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Paul and Fauci have consistently <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/go-ahead-fauci-dares-rand-paul-to-make-good-on-threats-to-investigate-him\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">been at odds<\/a> over the federal government\u2019s response to the pandemic \u2014 and Fauci\u2019s role in supporting and potentially funding the kind of <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/in-damning-capitol-hill-testimony-scientists-contradict-faucis-claim-that-nih-never-funded-gain-of-function-research\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gain-of-function<\/a> research that Paul and a number of others believe may have sparked the spread of COVID via a lab leak.<\/p>\n<p>Once Fauci announced his plan to leave the federal government later this year, Paul <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/rand-paul-faucis-resignation-wont-protect-him-from-investigation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">made it clear<\/a> that he was not finished seeking answers from the nation\u2019s top doc \u2014 and he said that retirement would not \u201cprotect\u201d Fauci from investigation, should it come to that.<\/p>\n<p>Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) appears to be on the same page as Paul, telling Fox News host Sean Hannity on Monday that if Republicans take back either the House or the Senate in 2022, Fauci is likely to face some questions.<\/p>\n<p>As Kennedy put it, Fauci was likely to spend \u201ca lot of time in front of a congressional committee\u201d unless he were to \u201cseek asylum in some foreign country whose Powerball jackpot is 287 chickens and a goat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sen. John Kennedy says that if Republicans take back Congress, unless Fauci &#8220;decides to seek asylum in some foreign country whose Powerball jackpot is 287 chickens and a goat,&#8221; he will &#8220;be spending a lot of time in front of a Congressional committee.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/E3RbOAA9mk\">pic.twitter.com\/E3RbOAA9mk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TPostMillennial\/status\/1561892359503286275?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 23, 2022<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) called on the National Institutes of Health, demanding that the organization retain all communications and any other documents in Dr. Anthony Fauci\u2018s possession as his retirement looms closer. Paul issued a letter \u2014 the contents of which were first published by The Daily Caller \u2014 to the NIH, asking that they &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1620688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1620686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1620686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1620688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1620686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1620686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1620686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}