WASHINGTON — Dr. Anthony Fauci spent years answering questions about the government’s COVID-19 response. The former White House medical adviser repeatedly invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination—more than 100 times—during a combative Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing chaired by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.). Paul, who has spent years investigating the origins of COVID-19 and U.S.-funded research in Wuhan, told Fauci that a presidential pardon “doesn’t protect you from the truth.” Paul wrote on X, “What Anthony Fauci wrote privately and what he told the country are two different stories.” Among the most scrutinized entries is a January 2020 note in which Fauci wrote that the Wuhan seafood market “was not the source, it was the amplifier.”