Bangladesh, Aug. 26 -- The most revealing details in Anthony Faucis newly released COVID-19 diary may not be the ones that concern masks, vaccines, school closures, or the origins of the virus. Those issues have already generated fierce political and scientific debates. More revealing, perhaps, is what the diary says about Faucis character-and what it suggests about the consequences of remaining silent when someone elses reputation and career are being destroyed.

One entry dated April 22, 2020, stands out. Writing privately about Rick Bright, then the head of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), Fauci described Bright as having “gone rogue” and concluded bluntly that he was an “abject LIAR...