Xavier Becerra’s Chickens Coming Home to Roost: Accused of Hiding Fauci’s COVID-era Diary and Cellphone

Dr. Anthony Fauci’s well-deserved congressional scrutiny is far from over, even after his contentious Senate hearing late last month.

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., points to a November 2023 request by House Republicans for former Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, currently running for California Governor, to produce any records from Fauci containing the words “COVID-19,” “gain-of-function,” and “Wuhan.”

Comer is now questioning why Fauci’s COVID-19 pandemic-era diary and cellphone were not turned over to Congress before this year, and it is placing the blame on former President Joe Biden’s top health official Becerra, Fox News Politics reports.

FAUCI FALLOUT: House Oversight Chairman James Comer is accusing former Biden HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra of potentially hiding Fauci's COVID-era diary and cellphone from Congress — documents that contained references to "COVID-19," "gain-of-function," and "Wuhan" that… pic.twitter.com/U0hutgE8Fu

— Fox News Politics (@foxnewspolitics) August 19, 2026

The Fox News post on X says:

House Oversight Chairman James Comer is accusing former Biden HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra of potentially hiding Fauci’s COVID-era diary and cellphone from Congress — documents that contained references to “COVID-19,” “gain-of-function,” and “Wuhan” that Republicans specifically requested in November 2023.

Comer says Becerra either intentionally withheld the materials or failed to conduct an adequate search. The diary, which current HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. turned over to Senators Rand Paul and Ron Johnson earlier this year, spans over 1,000 pages and includes entries where Fauci discussed his influence over school closures — something he previously denied under oath.

Becerra, now running for governor of California, has until Sept. 2 to answer whether he knew about the diary, why it wasn’t produced, and whether any Biden officials pressured him to withhold it.

This isn ‘t Becerra’s first scandalous rodeo.

Comer’s letter to Becerra demands answers to pointed questions: Did he know the diary existed? Why wasn’t it included in the original document production? And did any Biden administration officials pressure him to withhold materials from the November 2023 request?

Biden adviser Susan Rice referred to HHS Sec. Becerra as a “bitch-ass” and privately called him an “idiot,” according to multiple sources, Jim VanderHei of Axios Tweeted in February.

As I reported in 2018:

Becerra has his own troubles in D.C. as he was up to his eyeballs in the House Democratic Caucus Awan Brothers Congressional IT Scandal. Then-Rep. Xavier Becerra was the caucus chairman when he gave a fake server to the cops in order to obstruct their investigation. “The executive director of the Democratic Caucus was Sean McCluskie, who was Becerra’s chief of staff and is now chief deputy attorney general of California,” Daily Caller reporter Luke Rosiak reported in 2017. “The Awans and their associates collected more than $5 million in pay from congressional offices, often drawing chief-of-staff level pay though there is reason to believe many didn’t even show up. The House’s internal probe found they logged into servers they had no affiliation with, used members’ usernames, covered their tracks, and persisted even after being fired.”

Since the January 2017 appointment of Xavier Becerra to California Attorney General by California Governor Jerry Brown, I’ve questioned why Becerra was chosen out of all of the qualified Deputy AG’s and lawyers in-state, and suggested it was to provide distance between Becerra and DC, as well as a strong offense during the investigation into his leadership role in the Congressional IT scandal and cover up.

If the name Sean McCluskie, rings a bell, he is former chief of staff for the former U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, who pleaded guilty to stealing $225,000 from the former Biden Cabinet secretary’s campaign account in Governor Gavin Newsom’s former chief of staff Dana Williamson’s public corruption case.

The Congressional hacking suspects–the Pakistani born Awan brothers–ran the Information Technology (IT) for dozens of Democrat congressmen and women, and could read every email and communication sent or received. Members of the California Democrat House delegation also hired the Awan brothers, along with nearly 30 more House Democrats as a “shared employee,” according to Legistorm.

Members of the Awan family logged on to the Democrat Caucus server 7,000 times without authorization between October 2015 and August 2016, according to a House investigation.

“The Awans were accessing members’ computers without their knowledge, transferring files to remote servers, and stealing computer equipment — including hard drives that Awan & Co. smashed to bits of bytes before making tracks,” former Prosecutor Andrew McCarthy reported in National Review. And none of the Awans could have qualified for a security clearance.

The unvetted Awans enjoyed unfettered access throughout the Democrat Caucus – and even had access to the accounts of members of the House Intelligence and Foreign Affairs committees.

Many believe Becerra departed Congress to become Jerry Brown’s appointed attorney general in California to put him in a position in which he could not be prosecuted.

Becerra has so much baggage. Remember the Pakistani Awan brothers working in IT for the congressional Democrats, and how they stole US govt secrets by illegally accessing Democrats’ computers, and sent intel to Pakistan? The Pakistani IT staffers were sending sensitive… https://t.co/ckcBlWuVoH

— Katy Grimes (@KATYSaccitizen) April 22, 2026

As California’s gubernatorial campaign heated up, I posted on X in April:

Becerra has so much baggage. Remember the Pakistani Awan brothers working in IT for the congressional Democrats, and how they stole US govt secrets by illegally accessing Democrats’ computers, and sent intel to Pakistan? The Pakistani IT staffers were sending sensitive information to the Muslim Brotherhood. Becerra was #2 behind Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and he gave the FBI a false computer in the cover up.

From 2017 – The California members of the House who hired the Awan Brothers (past and present), and what they paid the Awans include:

Rep. Jim Costa (D-CA 16) = $161,896

Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA14) = $136,897

Rep. Xavier Becerra (Formerly D-CA34, currently California Attorney General) = $130,811

Rep. Karen Bass (D-CA37) = $106,664

Rep. Henry Waxman (Former D-CA 33) = $85,552

Rep. Tony Cardenas (D-CA 29) = $73,917

Rep. Mark Takano (D-CA 41) = $42,057

Rep. Julia Brownley (D-CA26) = $79,504

Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-CA31) = $35,415

Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA33) = $16,456

Xavier Becerra was up to his eyeballs in the Awan brothers Democrat IT scandal. But the scandal quietly disappeared thanks the mainstream media, and Congress eventually looked the other way.

Now, Xavier Becerra should have to relive all of it, from the Awan brothers to allegations of covering for Anthony Fauci – if he wants to be California’s governor.