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A top adviser to National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Dr. Anthony Fauci has admitted to using his personal email account to evade Freedom of Information Act requests and went so far as to make several e-mails during the pandemic. emails deleted. data obtained by House lawmakers investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic.
The emails were revealed Thursday by the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, who alleged that Dr. David Morens, whose tenure at NIAID spans about 25 years, may have broken the law.
In an email exchange between Morens and Bloomberg reporter Jason Gale, Morens made it clear that he had to get permission from the White House and the Department of Health and Human Services to talk about the “origins” of COVID-19.
“Sometimes they are touchy about certain issues and say no. For months I have not been approved to talk about the ‘origin’ on the record,” Morens wrote in the email, first published by The Intercept.
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In one email, Dr David Morens insisted that Fauci “didn’t want his fingerprints on (COVID) origin stories” (Susan Walsh)
“But today, much to my surprise, my boss Tony (Fauci) actually ASKED me to speak to National Geographic on the record about the origin. I want his fingerprints on origin stories,” he added in the 29 email. July 2021 to Gale.
In other emails, Morens expressed concern about what was sent to his work email and what was sent to his personal email, informing those in the email chain not to worry and that he would “remove anything I don’t want”. see in the New York Times.”
“As you know, I always try to communicate via Gmail because my NIH email is constantly FOIA’d,” Morens wrote in a September 2021 email, which was sent to many scientists involved in the study at the time. debate on the origin of COVID. “Things sent to my Gmail get to my phone…but not my NIH computer.”
“Don’t worry, just send to one of my addresses, and I’ll remove anything I don’t want to see in the New York Times,” he added in the email.
In an email dated Sept. 7, 2021, Peter Daszak, president of the EcoHealth Alliance, wrote to Morens about previous reporting from The Intercept on coronavirus research in Chinese laboratories, saying: More negative publicity our way — and that’s what this is about goes – a way of framing the (gain-of-function) attack on Fauci or the ‘risky research’ attack on all of us.’
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“Don’t rule out suing these bastards for defamation,” Morens replied, referring to the report.
This was announced earlier this month by the Government Accountability Office that EcoHealth Alliance had sent more than $2 million in sub-grants from NIH and the US Agency for International Development to the Wuhan Institute of Virology between 2014 and 2021.
Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, who serves as subcommittee chair, sent a letter to Morens on Thursday about the documents lawmakers had obtained from the House. IN the letter, Wenstrup told Morens that the documents obtained by the commission “suggest that you may have used your personal email to avoid transparency and the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), may have deliberately deleted federal records and acted in your official capacity to discredit your fellow scientists, including by encouraging lawsuits against them.”
“This is all very disturbing and raises serious questions,” Wenstrup wrote in a letter to Morens on Thursday. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
In the letter, the committee also said the email about Fauci not wanting “fingerprints” on the issue raises “concern that you may have knowledge or information to suggest that Dr. Anthony Fauci… COVID-19 wanted to influence without its ‘fingerprints.'”
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“This is all very disturbing and raises serious questions,” Wenstrup wrote to Morens.
The select subcommittee requested that Morens produce some additional plates, some from his personal device, and sit down for an interview.
