The Prequel

1/ Before Tony’s diary, there was the prequel. I'm releasing Fauci's own 465-page historical record of events from 2001 to 2015 — his personal account of building the federal biodefense complex and the classified access that came with it.

— Senator Rand Paul (@SenRandPaul) July 27, 2026

… In 2001, a scientist told Fauci the anthrax mailed to Sen. Daschle was better-engineered than any bioweapon the U.S. had ever built. Days later, the head of Homeland Security said publicly it was "garden-variety." Fauci wrote that someone was "masking the truth."

When then Vice President Cheney asked what powers he needed to run biodefense at NIAID, Fauci asked for sole-source contracting, rapid grants, and "DARPA-like powers."

When then Vice President Cheney asked what powers he needed to run biodefense at NIAID, Fauci asked for sole-source contracting, rapid grants, and "DARPA-like powers."

Part of the case: "CIA intelligence that Iraq has smallpox" — the basis for plans to vaccinate 10 million Americans.

Even Fauci wasn't buying the CIA's work. After a 2008 Top Secret briefing on drug-and vaccine-resistant anthrax, he wrote the intelligence was "vague, soft and even embarrassingly bad"… the kind he'd sat through "several times before."

The 2012 gain-of-function "moratorium" supposedly put in place by the scientists themselves was actually proposed by Fauci himself.

An Obama National Security Staffer wanted the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) silent on dangerous flu research "BEFORE THE NOV. 6 ELECTION" — Fauci's own capital letters. He wrote he understood and considered canceling the board's meeting outright.

This is the prequel to the diary already in The Reading Room- Fauci's own record of what he knew, what he asked for, and what he told the public instead.

8/ Read the documents yourself: https://t.co/tFeZ7hqsJ4

— Senator Rand Paul (@SenRandPaul) July 27, 2026