FAUCI DIARY ARCHIVE — Thursday, April 26, 2012
https://faucisdiary.com/diary/2012-04-26

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DIARY ENTRY — Thursday, April 26, 2012
Source: Diary Prequel, p. 285 of 2026.07.27_Diary-Prequel-.pdf
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The heat is still on and the focus high (in some circles) regarding the
H5N1 issue. I testified before the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs
Committee today. Chair – Joe Lieberman and ranking minority – Susan Collins (R-
Maine). Other witnesses were Dan Gerstein (DHS), Paul Keim (NSABB) and Tom
Inglesby (Univ. of Pittsburgh). Lieberman started the Hearing by stating that I was his
“hero”. Paul Keim more and more is making me believe that he is a poor Chair of
NSABB and a weak person in that he continuously says that Mike Osterholm is off base
with his letter to Amy and then he defends him strongly at the Hearing. He wants it both
ways.

The media (mostly bloggers like Laurie Garrett and others such as Helen Branswell) keep
thinking that the USG is acting in some sort of conspiratorial manner regarding letting
out information such as Amy’s response to Mike Letter. In this regard, I mentioned to
Lieberman when he asked about the accusations in Osterholm’s letter to Amy that I
completely disagreed with most of what was in Mike’s letter and that Amy had written a
comprehensive refutation of Mike’s points and that I would make this letter available to
the Committee if they wished. The press picked this up to mean that we were releasing
the letter to the public. That was not the case, but eventually ( a couple of days later)
when HHS Legisl. Affairs sent the letter to Lieberman, then HHS released the letter.

Made nice remarks at Memorial for Frank Neva at the Audubon Society in Bethesda.