FAUCI DIARY ARCHIVE — Saturday, February 11, 2012
https://faucisdiary.com/diary/2012-02-11

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DIARY ENTRY — Saturday, February 11, 2012
Source: Diary Prequel, pp. 268–269 of 2026.07.27_Diary-Prequel-.pdf
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The past couple of weeks have been intensively involved
in discussion about the H5N1 issue. Extraordinary “legal” issues come
up about what can and cannot be discussed in public.   I pushed for and
it will happen next week for a WHO meeting to make all of this more
transparent and international.   The issue is what can and cannot be
discussed at this meeting.   There are 2 options to allow discussion at
the meeting: 1) an “export control license” from the Dept. of Commerce
that restricts discussion to the people listed on the license, i.e. all
the attendees at the meeting or; 2) An advisory opinion from the dept.
of Commerce saying that the information is intended to be published by
the journals and therefore the expert control requirement does not
exist. Some subterfuge has gone on with HHS in getting the journals to

say that they have every intention of publishing the papers without
restrictions (which is not true) just so that they can get an advisory
opinion.    The problem is that since Commerce grants both the export
control (which assumes restriction) as well as advisory opinion (which
assumes open publication without restriction) you cannot have it both
ways.    Bottom line is that based on the journals declaring that they
intend to publish an advisory opinion will be granted. I expressed my
concern that this was not entirely honest, but it went ahead anyway.
This is something that I do not control. I leave for Geneva on Feb. 14
for a meeting on Feb. 16-17, 2012.