Every few years, the private record of a powerful government official suddenly becomes public. Not because the official chose to publish it or because a memoir was due. The notes surface because they were preserved by a system the writer did not fully control — and because someone armed with a subpoena or a Freedom of Information Act request finally went looking.
The public then reads words never intended for the public.
The latest example is Anthony Fauci.
Most of you have read about the 1,100 pages of Fauci’s pandemic-era entries, covering December 2019 through the end of 2022. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told FOX News that the files were found on scattered government servers. It took eight months, he said, to find all of it.
Diary is the wrong word for what has emerged.
A diary suggests a journal kept in a bedside drawer — something its author alone creates and possesses. Fauci’s record is different. He wrote candidly, sometimes daily, using government infrastructure. The su…
