Last week, NIH senior adviser Dr. David Morens testified before Congress that he coordinated with other officials to delete and hide critical records regarding the origins of COVID-19 using a “secret backchannel” of personal email accounts and phone calls.
“[I] learned from our foia [sic] lady here how to make emails disappear after I am foia’d [sic] but before the search starts,” Morens wrote in a Feb. 24, 2021, email. “Plus I deleted most of those earlier emails after sending them to gmail [sic].”
Now, the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic is demanding Dr. Anthony Fauci’s private emails and phone records before giving testimony next week. The committee wants everything from Jan. 1, 2020, to the present that the former NIAID director has on COVID.
The records are due June 12.
Committee Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-OH) isn’t ruling out a Congressional subpoena to get the records from the former COVID doc; “We have that authority, but we have to go through a process first right now,” he said.
Fauci is set to appear before the committee on June 3.
Morens implicated Fauci in his disastrous testimony last week.
“[T]here is no worry about FOIAs. I can either send stuff to Tony on his private gmail [sic], or hand it to him at work or at his house,” Morens wrote in one April 21, 202.
“He is too smart to let colleagues send him stuff that could cause trouble,” Morens said of his attempts to shield his boss.
According to The New York Post, the committee in a press release cited the remark as having raised “serious concerns about public health officials purposefully concealing information and behaving as if they are unaccountable to the American people they serve.”
Will Fauci finally be held accountable?
