Records Suggest Top NIH Official Squashed Lab-Leak Theory For Fauci, Used Personal Email To Hide ItBY: SHAWN FLEETWOOD
JUNE 30, 2023
Records recently obtained by House Republicans indicate a senior official with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) downplayed the Covid lab-leak theory at the behest of Anthony Fauci.
On Thursday, Rep. Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, the chair of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, sent a letter to Dr. David Morens, the NIAID director’s senior scientific advisor, demanding “all documents and communications from Dr. Morens’ personal email and cellphone related to eight, unique COVID origins publications” and any correspondence between Morens and individuals “involved in the COVID origins investigation and narrative.”
“Documents in possession of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic … suggest that you may have used your personal e-mail to avoid transparency and the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), potentially intentionally deleted federal records, and acted in your official capacity to disparage your fellow scientists, including by encouraging litigation against them,” Wenstrup wrote.
Included in Wenstrup’s letter is an email suggesting that Fauci — who until December was NIAID director and has dismissed the theory that Covid-19 leaked out of the Wuhan Institute of Virology — instructed Morens to speak with major media in an apparent attempt to downplay such a hypothesis. According to the records, on July 29, 2021, Morens wrote: “But today, to my total surprise, my boss Tony [Fauci] actually ASKED me to speak to the National Geographic on the record about origins. I interpret this to mean that our government is lightening up but that Tony doesn’t want his fingerprints on origin stories.”
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Source:
https://thefederalist.com/2023/06/30/records-suggest-top-nih-official-squashed-lab-leak-theory-for-fauci-used-personal-email-to-hide-it/
