Lying to Congress is supposed to be a crime. It should be an especially heinous crime for government officials, given that Congress acts as the Board of Directors for the US government. It is supposed to have ultimate authority over US policy, although as a practical matter most day-to-day decisions within those policies are made and executed by the Executive Branch.

Yet lying to Congress is now something of a sport for Executive Branch officials. During the Obama Administration high-level officials would lie to Congress, and when caught would essentially shrug.

“What are you going to do about it, huh?” James Clapper famously lied to Congress, as did John Brennan.

Anthony Fauci is another famous liar, and Rand Paul has been calling him out for years. And not just for lying to the American people, but for directly lying to Congress. He has made a criminal referral to the Justice Department, and unsurprisingly Merrick Garland has done nothing.

Because lying to Congress is a sport, and each lie seems to be a goal scored when done by a liberal.

I’ve taken the extraordinary step of going to the local U.S. attorney in D.C. to launch a probe and press criminal charges against Tony Fauci. The problem is there are partisans throughout the legal system. People are seeing that you don’t get prosecuted if you’re a Democrat in…

— Rand Paul (@RandPaul) August 10, 2023

Paul is not taking this lying down. After years of pressing for a criminal investigation into Fauci’s lies, the Senator has decided to go around Garland and demand that the US Attorney for Washington DC press charges against Fauci for perjury.

The perjury itself is indisputable–that is, unless you accept the now-standard practice of liberals to change the meaning of words whenever convenient.

You can watch Fauci commit the crime right on TV, before the nation.

Rand Paul tears into Fauci:

"I don't think there has ever been a clearer case of perjury in the history of government testimony, and I don’t say that lightly. He said adamantly that the government never funded this gain of function research." pic.twitter.com/2qa8obWZyM

— TheBlaze (@theblaze) August 10, 2023

Fauci’s claims are a lie because the NIH did, indeed, fund gain-of-function research at the WIV. Again, this is not really in dispute, and the NIAID itself has basically admitted as much. In a grant to the EcoHealth Alliance that funded research into coronaviruses the money was spent to enhance the viruses to make them more transmissable to humans. This was the goal of the research, the NIH set limits regarding how far the enhancements could go, and the EcoHealth Alliance exceeded those limits for years. After a brief suspension the NIH resumed funding for the EcoHealth Alliance.

Heated Exchange Between Tony Fauci and @RandPaul – Jul 20, 2021

FAUCI: "This paper that you are referring to was judged by qualified staff up and down the chain as not being gain of function."

RAND PAUL: "Take an animal virus, and you increase the transmissibility to… pic.twitter.com/qCNpVPDFbV

— The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) August 1, 2023

Fauci has been a strong advocate for gain-of-function research and has collaborated with the EcoHealth Alliance for years. The Obama Administration banned the funding of GOF research, and Fauci got the research restarted.

Now he denies it, and insults our intelligence by insisting what is clearly true is not.

Fauci is clearly lying, not just in the claim that the NIH didn’t fund gain-of-function, but in redefining what exactly gain-of-function is. The NIH has a very broad definition of gain-of-function that includes any genetic manipulation of a virus by any means to change what it does and how it does it. GOF research is generally done to understand how viruses can mutate, and is often done to change the viruses in specific ways to see how it behaves once it mutates.

In practical terms that often means taking a virus that does not infect human beings or that is not very transmissable and make it virulent. The goal can be to predict emerging diseases–or in the case of bioweapons to create a novel disease.

As you can see from the exchange between Paul and Fauci, the NIH indeed funded research in Wuhan that took non-virulent viruses and made them virulent in human beings.

Fauci claims that is not gain-of-function. It is. Changing the meaning of words does not turn a falsehood into truth; it is a dodge. If Fauci’s dodge was accepted, no regulation, no law, no rule ever committed to paper means anything because any violation can simply be defined away. Change the meaning of the words whenever you want and you have a get out of jail free card.

Fauci belongs in prison. Unfortunately, it will never happen.