After reports of Fauci invoking the 5th Amendment at last week's Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing I watched some of the video. And was immediately reminded of high-level gangsters like Vito Genovese before a different Senate committee in 1958. The New York Times story is headlined "Genovese Invokes the Fifth 150 Times in Mafia Study; GENOVESE BALKS AT MAFIA INQUIRY"
The thing about Genovese and other mobsters invoking the 5th Amendment right against self-incrimination is that they were also using it to adhere to their omertà code of silence. Violation of the code can be brutal and very final.
I was thinking about this because of Fauci's universal pardon for crimes unspecified. He was already covered so who was he covering for?
On August 5th the Wall Street Journal had an exclusive story about a mirror of Fauci's phone being turned over to Senate investigators. The more interesting fact doesn't appear until the second-to-last paragraph of the article:
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WASHINGTON—A Senate panel investigating Dr. Anthony Fauci has obtained a copy of the doctor’s iPhone, potentially securing even more records related to the doctor’s actions during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The copy of the phone was transferred by the Department of Health and Human Services to the Senate Homeland Security Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, which is chaired by Sen. Ron Johnson (R., Wis.).
This revelation comes just days after copies of Fauci’s journals were publicly released following their transfer from HHS to Congress. Two Republican senators, Johnson and Rand Paul of Kentucky, have increased pressure on Fauci in recent days to answer questions related to pandemic health measures and the origins of Covid-19.The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, chaired by Paul, is scheduled on Thursday to vote on whether to hold Fauci in contempt for refusing to answer questions before the committee last week. Fauci at the time described Paul as having an “unhinged obsession” with him as he invoked the Fifth Amendment more than 100 times and said he had testified to or briefed Congress more than 200 times in nearly four decades as the nation’s top infectious disease expert.Fauci used the phone during his time as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, according to a spokeswoman for Johnson, whose subcommittee obtained the phone records. Fauci played a central role during the Trump administration’s response to the pandemic in 2020, publicly contradicting President Trump at times and urging more public caution than some political figures, which made him an enemy of Trump loyalists.Fauci stayed in the government for the beginning of the Biden administration and retired in 2022. Former President Joe Biden pardoned Fauci as one of his final acts in office amid concerns that Republicans could try and indict him for his actions during the pandemic.The phone was provided to the subcommittee by HHS, according to a spokeswoman for Johnson, the subcommittee’s chairman. HHS is led by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a fierce Fauci critic who wrote a 2021 book accusing the doctor of close ties to pharmaceutical companies and a disregard for civil liberties.
The phone could be part of more public document dumps on the way: Paul and Johnson have received millions of additional Fauci-related pages from government servers, people familiar with the matter said, and are still pressing for more. And at least four Republican-led states have meanwhile launched their own investigations into Fauci.A lawyer for Fauci didn’t immediately return a request for comment.Copyright ©2026 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8Appeared in the August 6, 2026, print edition as 'Panel Has Copy of Fauci’s iPhone'.
Millions of pages.
As noted introducing May 26's "For the Public, Covid Is No Longer a Mystery":
Over the next six months there will be a lot of information coming out regarding coronavirus, Covid-19 and the responses thereto. A lot....
If interested see also:
June 14 - Look Back In Anger: Masking And The SARS-CoV-2 Virus
July 21 - Heads Up From Senator Rand Paul
July 27 - Ahead of July 29's Fauci Hearing Senator Rand Paul Has Released 1100 Pages of Fauci's Diary.
And much more to come.
