Expect fireworks. On Monday, Dr. Anthony Fauci is scheduled to testify under oath before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic to account for his performance during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Fauci, former director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, appeared before the select subcommittee earlier this year for a closed-door, 14-hour transcribed interview conducted over two days.

Needless to say, congressional investigators have a lot of ground to cover Monday, ranging from Fauci’s advice on mask mandates to his oversight of coronavirus research grants and response to the Chinese origins of the global pandemic.

Meanwhile, subcommittee Chairman Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, has requested that Fauci, who retired at the end of 2022 after 38 years heading NIAID, turn over personal email accounts and cell phone records.

The reason: Dr. David Morens, Fauci’s senior adviser for over two decades, revealed to the subcommittee under oath May 22 that he transmitted official records to Fauci through his own personal email to avoid congressional inquiries or public oversight under the Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA.

As revealed that same day in a subcommittee staff memo, Morens stated in a postscript to an email to colleagues April 21, 2021: “I forgot to say there is no worry about FOIAs. I can either send stuff to Tony [Fauci] on his private email, or hand it to him at work or at his house. He is too smart to let colleagues send him stuff that could cause trouble.”

In another email to colleagues May 13, 2021, Morens referred to “our secret back channel” for sensitive communications, copying Peter Daszak, president of the EcoHealth Alliance, the controversial organization that received federal grant money for work at the........

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