Joe Biden’s pardon of Dr. Anthony Fauci, without naming any crime he committed, drew extensive media coverage. It wasn’t so for Fauci’s allies, including his wife, Christine Grady. She was recently cut loose from her post as chief of the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center and head of the Department’s Section on Human Subjects Research. In the style of her husband, it was a job she never should have had in the first place. (RELATED: Dr. Anthony Fauci: What Exactly Did Biden Pardon?)
Dr. Fauci’s bio showed no advanced degrees in molecular biology or biochemistry, but in 1984, the NIH made him head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). Nobel laureate Kary Mullis, inventor of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), believed that he did not understand electronic microscopy, did not understand medicine, and “should not be in a position like he’s in.” (RELATED: Never Forget What They Did to Us Five Years Ago)
In her 1995 book The Search for an AIDS Vaccine, Grady touted Dr. Fauci but failed to reveal that she had been married to him for 10 years, a blatant act of deception for an NIH nurse who would earn a PhD in philosophy from Georgetown University. Grady also praised the highly toxic AZT (azidothymidine), Dr. Fauci’s drug of choice for AIDS, as a boon to research. And in Grady’s view, pregnant women and children were suitable subjects for drug trials.
The Fauci-Grady axis also went missing when the NIH made Grady bioethics chief in 2012. This set up perhaps the greatest conflict of interest the federal government had ever seen. Whatever Dr. Fauci wanted to do, bioethicist Christine was okay with it. (RELATED: Dr. Fauci Doubles Down)
Relocation of Fauci Bedfellows and the Path Forward
Grady has now been offered a post in the Indian Health Service in remote locations such as Alaska. The same choice was offered to NIAID director Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo. She faithfully parroted Dr. Fauci’s masking and social distancing policies, now shown to have no scientific validity. Dr. Fauci’s longtime associate, Dr. Clifford Lane, and several CDC officials have also been offered the choice. As they move out, the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) brings aboard a strategic ally.
The new special advisor at the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response is Steven Hatfill, a medical doctor with degrees in biochemistry and microbial genetics. During the first Trump administration, Hatfill clashed with Dr. Fauci, and before that, he stood accused of the worst biological attack in U.S. history.
In 2001, after the 9/11 attacks, letters laced with anthrax killed five Americans and sickened 17. Hatfill served at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, and in August of 2002, Attorney General John Ashcroft named Hatfill as a “person of interest.”
The FBI then targeted the scientist with constant surveillance, but never made a case. Hatfill fought back and, in 2008, won a settlement of nearly $6 million. Hatfill would face new conflicts as a special advisor during the first Trump administration, all charted in “The COVID Debacle: Merging Criminal Law and Medical Science for Accountability.
In 2020, “a small number of senior federal bureaucrats promoted an experimental antiviral drug called remdesivir. This cost $90 per treatment to manufacture and package, and was sold to the U.S. government for $2,500 per treatment.” As HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. noted in The Real Anthony Fauci, remdesivir was Dr. Anthony Fauci’s “vanity drug.” It recalled Fauci’s support for AZT in the late 1980s. At $8,000 a year, AZT was the most expensive prescription drug in history.
In addition to remdesivir, Hatfill explained, federal bureaucrats pushed for a multi-billion-dollar mass-immunization program using highly experimental single-antigen mRNA “pseudo-vaccines” that were still under development. Joe Biden called COVID a “pandemic of the unvaccinated,” and fired 8,700 armed service members who refused the experimental vaccines.
In a similar style, Dr. Fauci’s wife, Grady, supported laying off nurses if they refused the unproven vaccines. The NIH bioethicist has now been sent packing along with Dr. Fauci’s successor Jeanne Marrazzo, all part of plans to fold 27 NIH agencies into eight.
In “The COVID Debacle,” HHS special advisor Steven Hatfill called for “individual and group accountability.” As reforms proceed, RFK Jr. and NIH director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya may uncover the crime or crimes that prompted Joe Biden to pardon Dr. Anthony Fauci. In 2025, moving forward, it’s all about memory against forgetting.
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Lloyd Billingsley is a policy fellow at the Independent Institute in Oakland, Calif.