Dr. Anthony Fauci has become the poster boy for what is wrong with our government, as evidenced by the massive emerging scandal involving his so-called "leadership" during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This career bureaucrat — the highest-paid federal employee at more than $400,000 a year — has been the head of his National Institutes of Health agency since the early 1980s. He's on his seventh president. He no doubt knows a lot about everyone in D.C. at this particular moment. He probably knows where a few of the 'bodies are buried,' if you follow.

And because of this insulation from society, he pretty much behaves any way he wants to, up to and including putting Americans lives in danger and, honestly, allowing Americans to die to protect his own interests.

That's the assessment, anyway, of the situation after emails obtained via Freedom of Information Act requests were published last week revealing Fauci ignored a research physicist who told him there were effective, existing medicinal treatments for the coronavirus that caused the pandemic but he chose to push vaccines exclusively.