A new damning revelation sent shockwaves through Capitol Hill last week, as lawmakers delved into the origins of Covid-19.
Key advisor to Anthony Fauci Dr. David Morens shockingly showcased the manipulation of electronic correspondence to evade scrutiny, as evident in unearthed emails, which has sparked an uproar online.
Morens, a prominent government health official who served as a senior advisor to Fauci from 1998 until 2022, found himself at the center of controversy as excerpts from his emails were laid bare during a hearing chaired by House Oversight Chairman James Comer.
These disclosures come as part of the ongoing congressional investigation into the hypothesis that the Covid-19 virus might have escaped from a laboratory in China, Daily Mail reported.
Among the startling revelations were exchanges wherein Morens, currently employed at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), discussed strategies for circumventing transparency laws, particularly the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
Morens detailed methods for erasing digital trails while corresponding with Peter Daszak, whose organization EcoHealth Alliance recently faced federal funding suspension over its involvement in contentious coronavirus research conducted at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
“I learned from our FOIA lady here how to make emails disappear after I am FOIA’d but before the search starts,” Morens wrote to Daszak. “So I think we are all safe. Plus I deleted most of those earlier emails after sending them to Gmail.”
Morens reinforced the clandestine approach in a subsequent message, asserting, “We are all smart enough to know to never have smoking guns. And if we did we wouldn’t put them in emails. And if we found them we would delete them.”
These revelations underscore the intensifying scrutiny facing Fauci’s inner circle and the broader scientific community amid mounting concerns over transparency and accountability in the investigation into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Two startling emails came to light during a Thursday committee hearing where former NIH acting director Lawrence Tabak testified.
After disclosing Morens’ messages regarding the deletion of communications, Comer questioned Tabak directly: “Is that consistent with NIH document retention policies?”
Tabak swiftly responded, “It is not.”
The nonprofit health research group US Right to Know has been engaged in a legal battle with NIH to obtain officials’ emails concerning the origins of Covid-19.
Gary Ruskin, executive director of Right to Know, expressed his dismay, stating, “During the last 31 years of public interest work, I have never seen a federal agency stonewall public records requests as much as NIH.”
He accused NIH of actively concealing crucial information about the origins of Covid-19, labeling their behavior as “abysmal and reprehensible.”
Ruskin emphasized the urgency of the situation, asserting that the Select Subcommittee’s inquiry is just scratching the surface of NIH’s obstructive practices.
Morens, under pressure, relinquished thousands of emails to the Select Subcommittee and is set to testify about his actions, including the deletion of emails and the use of a Gmail account for official purposes.
Ruskin added, “Once his testimony is concluded, Congress and the public will have a clearer understanding of the appropriate consequences for his transgressions against our democracy.”
Fauci, along with his advisors at NIAID, are under the microscope following revelations that the agency provided funding to EcoHealth Alliance for research.
Some of this funding was allegedly allocated to experiments that altered coronaviruses to increase their virulence.
EcoHealth Alliance subcontracted this research to a lab in Wuhan, China.
The Department of Health and Human Services, which halted funding on Wednesday, asserts that EcoHealth failed to adequately supervise the research, potentially contributing to an incident that precipitated the global pandemic in 2020.
Congressman Brad Wenstrup, chair of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, now raises concerns that Morens and Daszak may have attempted to conceal their actions by deleting federal records in the wake of the controversy.
Emails released by Wenstrup’s committee last year revealed discussions in which Morens proposed using his personal email to avoid government scrutiny and suggested deleting communications to evade detection.
A top NIAID official informed Daszak that he uses Gmail due to constant FOIA requests on his NIH email as evident in one email exchange from 2021, with Morens allegedly stating, “Just send to any of my addresses and I will delete anything I don’t want to see in the New York Times.”
Wenstrup has responded by issuing two subpoenas to Morens: one demanding all Gmail correspondence pertaining to the origins of COVID-19, and another compelling him to testify before the committee on May 22.
Morens submitted approximately 30,000 emails to the committee on April 30, according to information obtained by Daily Mail.
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