New Delhi, July 28 -- WASHINGTON - Three days before Dr. Anthony Fauci co-signed a paper declaring that COVID-19 had most likely emerged from a natural animal spillover, his pandemic diary recorded that ten of twelve scientists on a private call believed deliberate genetic insertion was possible. Senator Rand Paul's committee published the 1,141-page diary Saturday, took it down Monday, and posted it again Tuesday with portions redacted. Dr. Fauci is scheduled to testify before the Senate Wednesday morning.

"the rest felt that deliberate insertion was possible."

Five days before that call, on January 26, 2020, the diary shows Fauci writing that the Wuhan wet market "was not the source, it was the amplifier." That distinction, between th...