Framing Analysis
Anthony Fauci testified before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on July 29 2026, where he invoked the Fifth Amendment. Sen. Rand Paul, the committee chair, had previously released more than 1,000 pages of Fauci's diary entries extracted by the agency led by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The diaries contain references to celebrity interactions that also appear in Fauci's 2024 memoir.