{"podcast":{"title":"Rand Radio","slug":"rand-radio-7193419","podcast_index_feed_id":7193419,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/1627785.rss","website_url":"https://www.randpaulreview.com/podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/1627785/d0bb836829be9d07d03f6c0a17f5e09d.jpg","author":"Rand Paul Review","episode_count":84,"summary":"For liberty to expand, government must shrink. For the economy to grow, government must get out of the way. -- Rand Paul. [Unofficial Rand Paul fan-stack.]","last_synced_at":"2026-07-22T00:20:12.959108+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/rand-radio-7193419"},"episode":{"title":"Rand Paul: Anthony Fauci is the New J. Edgar Hoover","slug":"rand-paul-anthony-fauci-is-the-new-j-edgar-hoover","published_at":"2026-06-18T10:11:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/rand-radio-7193419/rand-paul-anthony-fauci-is-the-new-j-edgar-hoover","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/rand-radio-7193419","url":"https://www.randpaulreview.com/p/rand-paul-anthony-fauci-is-the-new","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/202471878/8608c33ebea9d8f5f2978679f61caec5.mp3","summary":"No one in Washington has pursued Dr. Anthony Fauci for his potential criminal involvement in the global coronavirus pandemic. The creation of the virus. The funding. The cover up. The silence as the pandemic grew. Paul says he has the evidence that only grows over time and now he just needs cooperation from the Justice Department to seek… justice. The senator recently released some new information that reveals how deeply Fauci was involved with intelligence agencies. Which recently led to Paul even comparing for Fauci to longtime FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. It definitely wasn’t a compliment . Rand Paul Review is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Hoover ‘Had Secret Files On People, Pressured People, Gave Money, Threatened to Expose People’ During an interview with Newsmax, host Ed Henry asked Paul, “You’ve been dogging about going after Dr. Tony Fauci, and you’ve just released some new documents that suggest he was deeply involved with the intelligence community, the National Security Council there at the Biden White House. What did you learn, and what can we do to hold him accountable?” “Because we’ve talked about this for so long,” Henry asked. “Can we take action now that you’ve gotten these documents?” Sen. Paul replied, “You know, the closest thing I can use in comparison would be J Edgar Hoover, who was in charge of the FBI for 70 years, had secret files on people, pressured people, gave money, threatened to expose people.” “That was J. Edgar Hoover,” Paul said. “And we were so upset by it that we tried to reform it in the 1970s because of what he had done to our country.” On what would have been Hoover’s 100th birthday in 2024, Matthew Harwood wrote for Reason , “Presidential a…","meta_description":"No one in Washington has pursued Dr. Anthony Fauci for his potential criminal involvement in the global coronavirus pandemic. The creation of the virus. T…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":108,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/rand-radio-7193419/episodes/rand-paul-anthony-fauci-is-the-new-j-edgar-hoover/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/rand-radio-7193419/rand-paul-anthony-fauci-is-the-new-j-edgar-hoover.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}