Newly released private diary entries from Anthony Fauci are being used to build a case against him, which is bad news for Fauci as Rand Paul pushes to break his pardon.

• Senate Homeland Security chair Rand Paul released hundreds of pages of Fauci's diary and emails, showing his private thoughts during COVID.
• The diary shows Fauci privately put COVID's death rate at 0.2–0.3%, while telling Congress and TV it was ten times worse than the flu.
• Emails suggest a pay-for-play deal: Fauci steered huge grants to a Duke collaborator who then helped get him a major science prize.
• The entries also record Fauci privately pushing to close New York and California schools, bars, and restaurants — despite later denying he recommended locking anything down.
• Paul wants to use a Congress hearing to argue Fauci's blanket pardon was too broad, opening the door to charges for lying to Congress and destroying records.

Outlook: Fauci faces Congress on Wednesday, but even Paul's allies put the odds of cracking the pardon and prosecuting him at only about 20%.