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For years, Anthony Fauci never met a camera he didn't like.He lectured governors. He lectured parents. He lectured Congress. When Senator Rand Paul pressed him on gain of function research in Wuhan, Fauci famously snapped that attacking him was attacking science itself. The man declared, on national television, that he represents science.Then something changed.On the last full day of his term, Joe Biden handed Fauci a preemptive pardon, covering conduct going back years, years that just happen to include the period when NIH money was flowing toward coronavirus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Pardons are for people accused of crimes. Fauci had not been charged with anything. Curious timing, curious coverage. Then came the diaries.Senator Paul's committee obtained Fauci's personal diary, and it shows the scientists he consulted early on found the lab leak idea likely, even as Fauci publicly waved the theory away and let the press brand anyone who raised it a conspiracy theorist. What he wrote in private does not match what he told the public, and it does not match what he told Congress. So what happened when he finally sat down under subpoena, under oath, in front of Paul's committee?The only words Fauci spoke were his invocation of the Fifth Amendment, on the advice of his attorney. Over a three hour hearing, he pleaded the Fifth 111 times. One hundred and eleven times.The Fifth Amendment is a sacred right, and no one should apologize for using it. But let's be honest about what we watched. The man who spent five years telling America to trust him, who smirked his way through every hearing, suddenly had nothing to say the moment his own diary was sitting on the table.I am science, until you put me under oath. Then I am silence.