At a hearing of the Senate's Homeland Security and Government Committee today, Anthony Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment to avoid answering questions about gain-of-function research his former agency, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), funded in Wuhan, China, and the role that research might have played in starting the pandemic.
"I believed in and respect the value of legitimate congressional oversight," said Fauci, who had been subpoenaed to appear before the committee that's chaired by Sen. Rand Paul (R–Ky.), in a brief opening statement.
