福奇回来了，这一次他的助手需要向美国前流行病宠儿托尼·福奇重新陷入美国政坛，并将他的几位前高级助手和民主党拖了进来。这一次，问题不在于口罩、强制令、封锁或六英尺的距离。
Fauci is back, and this time his assistants need to dish America’s former pandemic darling Tony Fauci has crashed back into American politics—dragging several of his former top aides with him, along with the Democrat Party. This time, the issue is not masks, mandates, lockdowns, or six-foot distancing.
这是一个更根本的问题：SARS-CoV-2是否来自武汉涉及功能获得技术的实验室研究，以及由福奇直接或间接资助的研究是否有助于引发这一流行病？
It is a far more fundamental question: Did SARS-CoV-2 emerge from laboratory research in Wuhan involving gain-of-function techniques, and did research funded directly or indirectly through Fauci with American taxpayer dollars help trigger the pandemic?
参议院国土安全和政府事务委员会由参议员兰德·保罗（Rand Paul）（肯塔基州共和党人）担任主席，就是想找到答案相反，它不断遇到援引第五修正案权利不作证的证人，以免他们自证其罪。
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, chaired by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), is trying to get answers. Instead, it keeps running into witnesses who invoke their Fifth Amendment right not to testify, lest they incriminate themselves.
首先是福奇本人。在保罗委员会的传唤下，福奇111次援引了他的第五修正案权利。然后，上个月末，另一位福奇内部人士--他十五年的特别助理--也获得了第五名。
First came Fauci himself. Subpoenaed by Paul’s committee, Fauci invoked his Fifth Amendment rights 111 times. Then, late last month, another Fauci insider — his special assistant of fifteen years — also took the Fifth.
我从一开始就参与了这个游戏。作为大流行期间特朗普政府的第一位军需官，我正在努力确保美国人迫切需要的口罩、手套、防护服、呼吸机、检测拭子和其他物资。我还帮助发起了曲速行动。2020年4月，我在福克斯新闻上公开表示，病毒的踪迹无情地指向武汉生物武器实验室。
I had skin in this game from the beginning. As the first Trump administration’s quartermaster during the pandemic, I was working to secure the masks, gloves, gowns, ventilators, testing swabs and other supplies Americans desperately needed. I also helped initiate Operation Warp Speed. And I said publicly on Fox News in April 2020 that the trail of the virus pointed inexorably toward the Wuhan bioweapons lab.
我们当时迫切缺乏的不是已发表的病毒序列--该序列于一月份公布，疫苗科学家迅速将其投入使用。我们缺乏的是武汉实验室记录、病毒库存、原始序列数据、研究笔记本、数据库和祖病毒信息，这些信息本可以告诉我们该实验室内实际发生了什么。
What we desperately lacked at the time was not the published sequence of the virus — that had become available in January, and vaccine scientists rapidly put it to work. What we lacked were the Wuhan laboratory records, virus inventories, raw sequence data, research notebooks, databases and progenitor-virus information that could have told us what had actually happened inside that laboratory.
在抗击疫情的迷雾中，人们却被剥夺了关于病毒可能来源的关键信息，而当时福奇正在策划他那臭名昭著的“近端起源”掩盖行动，以掩盖病毒可能源自实验室以及他所在的机构在病毒制造过程中可能扮演的角色。
re fighting the fog of the pandemic while being denied critical information about its possible source, even as Fauci was engineering his now infamous “Proximal Origin” coverup of the possible lab origins and the possible role of his agency in the creation of the virus.
但保罗现在似乎掌握了一位未具名的重要证人，此人在最关键的对话发生时，就站在福奇办公室门外。
But Paul now appears to have an unnamed material witness who was standing immediately outside Fauci’s door when the most important conversations occurred.
2020年1月31日，惠康基金会主任杰里米·法拉尔紧急致信福奇，要求当晚与他通话。福奇的特别助理帕特里夏·康拉德代为回复：“稍后致电。”接下来发生的事情非同寻常。就在同一天，科学家克里斯蒂安·安徒生告诉福奇，病毒的一些特征“（看起来）像是人工设计的”。福奇曾作证称，他当时告诉安徒生，如果这一担忧属实，应当通知的权威机构是联邦调查局（FBI）和英国军情五处（MI5）。
On January 31, 2020, Wellcome Trust director Jeremy Farrar urgently emailed Fauci asking to speak with him that evening. Fauci’s special assistant, Patricia Conrad, answered on Fauci’s behalf: “Will call shortly.”What happened next is extraordinary. That same day, scientist Kristian Andersen told Fauci that some features of the virus “(potentially) look engineered.”Fauci has testified that he told Andersen that if the concern held up, the authorities to notify would be the FBI and Britain’s MI5.
但保罗表示，委员会在审查福奇政府电脑上的日志时发现，这位助理曾告诉福奇，她在某个周末销毁了“大量邮件”——“成百上千，甚至数千条”记录，而这在福奇的办公室里竟成了“例行公事”。是谁下的命令？她目睹了哪些对话？福奇给谁打了电话？那些记录去了哪里？
But Paul says the committee, reviewing logs Fauci kept on a government computer, found the assistant telling Fauci she had destroyed “a ton of emails” over a weekend — “hundreds, if not thousands” of records, which turns out to have been “a routine practice” in Fauci’s office. Who gave the order? What conversations did she witness? Whom did Fauci call? What happened to those records?
在这位助理援引宪法第五修正案拒绝作证后，保罗提出了获取答案的显而易见的方法：给予豁免权。“我们从未真正打算起诉她，”保罗说，“我们只是想知道是谁给她下的命令。”所有共和党人都投票支持推进此举，而所有民主党人都投了反对票。投票结果为8比7。由于保罗需要额外两票才能达到所需的三分之二多数，该努力最终失败。当时只有一名民主党人到场，其余六人通过代理人投了反对票。
After the assistant invoked the Fifth, Paul offered the obvious mechanism for getting answers: immunity. “It was never our intention really to try to have her indicted,” Paul said. “We wanted to know who gave her the orders.”Every Republican voted to proceed. Every Democrat voted against. The vote was 8 to 7. Because Paul needed two additional votes for the required two-thirds, the effort failed. Only one Democrat showed up; six voted no by proxy.
福奇所属机构内部存在隐瞒行为，这已不再是假设。今年8月，福奇的高级顾问大卫·莫伦斯承认自己犯有共谋罪——他将有关“生态健康中心”功能增益研究资助项目、该项目在武汉的分包情况以及试图驳斥“实验室泄漏论”的相关联邦记录藏在了自己的个人Gmail账户中。
Concealment inside Fauci’s agency is no longer hypothetical. David Morens, Fauci’s senior adviser, pleaded guilty in August to conspiracy for hiding federal records on his personal Gmail — records on the EcoHealth gain-of-function grant, its Wuhan subaward, and countering the lab-leak narrative.
这正是我在新书《为何福奇必须身陷囹圄》中所探讨的内容：在关乎数亿美国人命运的决策作出之际，幕后究竟发生了什么？为何福奇私下里发短信称第二剂疫苗“理论上可能导致孕妇在孕早期流产”，却在公开场合坚称疫苗对孕妇安全呢？
This is precisely the territory I explore in my new book “Why Fauci Must Rot in Prison“ What was happening behind the curtain while decisions affecting hundreds of millions of Americans were being made? And why did Fauci privately text that a second vaccine dose “theoretically could be associated with miscarriage in the first trimester” while publicly telling pregnant women the shots were safe?
文件能告诉我们某人写下了什么；日记则能反映某人选择记录的内容。像莫伦斯和康拉德这样的助手，亲眼目睹了整个运作过程。
Documents tell us what somebody wrote down. Diaries tell us what somebody chose to record. Aides like Morens and Conrad see the machinery.
这本不该成为一个党派问题。超过一百万不同党派的美国人死于新冠；约1700万成年人出现了长期新冠症状，还有超过1.1万名民众向联邦政府提交了因接种疫苗导致受伤或死亡的索赔申请。我们所有人都曾被强制封锁、强制佩戴双层口罩，甚至有人因拒绝接种疫苗而面临解雇威胁。
This should not be a partisan issue. More than a million Americans across party lines died from COVID. Some 17 million adults have have reported long COVID, and more than 11,000 have filed federal claims of injury or death from the vaccines. And all of us were locked down, double-masked, and threatened with firing if we did not submit to the jab.
然而令人费解的是，民主党人却纷纷为福奇撑腰。今年11月，福奇的形象已从深受民众喜爱的“吉祥物”彻底沦为所有民主党人的负担。兰德·保罗并未就此罢手，我也不会。让我们查明真相。
Yet Democrats have inexplicably circled their wagons around Fauci, who has officially morphed from everybody’s favorite bobblehead into every Democrat’s albatross in November. Rand Paul is not letting up, and neither am I. Let’s get to the truth.
彼得·纳瓦罗是白宫贸易与制造业高级顾问，也是《为何福奇必须身陷囹圄》一书的作者。
Peter Navarro is the White House Senior Counselor for Trade and Manufacturing and author of “Why Fauci Must Rot in Prison.”