Fauci Advisor Allegedly Used Private Email to Dodge FOIA Requests, COVID Origin Requests
Dr. David Morens: “I interpret this to mean that our government is lightening up but that Tony [Fauci] doesn’t want his fingerprints on origin stories.”
The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic revealed emails from Dr. David Morens, an advisor to Dr. Anthony Fauci, wich appear to show he used his personal email account to evade any Freedom of Information Act requests and discuss COVID origins.
Morens even said he deleted emails.
You have to conduct official business with your government emails. Morens may have broken the law:
In an email exchange between Morens and Bloomberg reporter Jason Gale, Morens made clear that he had to receive approval 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 many months, I have not been approved to talk about the ‘origins’ on the record,” Morens wrote in the email, which was first published by The Intercept.
“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,” he added in the July 29, 2021, email to Gale.
The Intercept published all 47 pages with redactions.
This is serious business. Morens also bashed those who claimed COVID came from a lab leak:
“The lab leakers are already stirring up bullshit lines of attack that will bring more negative publicity our way — which is what this is about — a way to line up the [gain-of-function] attack on Fauci, or the ‘risky research’ attack on all of us,” wrote [EcoHeakth Alliance member Peter] Daszak in one email on September 7.
“Do not rule out suing these assholes for slander,” wrote Morens in response.
In a separate email, Morens slammed scientists such as Richard Ebright of Rutgers University, calling them “harmful demagogues.” He also lamented the media’s platforming of such figures.
“They need to be called out. Because I am in government I can only fo [sic] this off the record, but I have done do [sic] again and again,” he wrote. “Some of them are knowingly promoting false equivalences [sic]. If they interviewed a Holocaust survivor, they would say they have to give equal time and space to a Nazi murderer. They have no shame.”
All the data leads intelligent people to believe COVID indeed came from a lab leak.
But then, in 2021, Morens wrote that Fauci gave him permission to speak to National Geographic about COVID origins:
“For many months, I have not been approved to talk about ‘origins’ on the record. But today, to my total surprise, my boss Tony actually ASKED me to speak to the National Geographic on the record about origins,” Morens wrote at the time. “I interpret this to mean that our government is lightening up but that Tony doesn’t want his fingerprints on origin stories.”
Just WOW.
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Oops. Never a good idea to admit to willfully unlawful acts. Especially not in whnt appears to be a mass email.
It’s not as if there will be any consequences.
Maybe, maybe not. Depends on what we include as consequences. Every project this guy Morens worked on is now suspect so the committee of jurisdiction in the HoR can subpoena his records and communications.
IMO the day is fast approaching that agencies and individual officials which refuse to submit to Congressional oversight will start having their budgets cut as well as appointments held up. Sen Tuberville is already holding up DoD promotions to General/Admiral due to DoD intransigence.
I have to agree. Fauci watched Hillary and Biden (so far) do the same thing with no consequences and learned.
This man is culpable for the deaths of millions of people and the shattering of even more lives, all while lining his pockets.
Agreed.
Used private email for government business. Reminds me of Hillary except they omitted the important part — forgot to wipe it with a cloth or something.
It’s time Congress put some consequences with teeth on those attempting to get around the FOIA.
Indeed. A ban from grants personally and for any entity who associates with them. Firing for cause and a thorough investigation of the length of time their actions went on, sort of like an IRS audit, if more actions found keep looking further back. Then revoke the years that bad activity covers in their govt pensions.
Sounds about right.
I agree, still this appears to be far worse than FOIA violations.
IMO Fauci had murdered tens of thousands to get rid of President Trump, that is a big ticket to Hell.
To the Left, it’s an acceptable — if not downright admirable — sacrifice. All’s fair in love, war, and partisan politics.
My defense is they knew other forms of medicine could mitigate symptoms but they got that sweet government money for the Fake Vax and with their Democrat Propaganda Ministry outlawed any other information to the contrary. Shutting down any decent on the Fake Vax or its effects. It’s the only shot without a full warning you will hear. Any other drug on a TV or radio gives you warnings not to take for this or that reason, or other effects if taking or stop taking if this occurs. Fake Vax? Take in today and nothing else.
Just asking, does this mean Dr. David Morens was part of a conspiracy that has led to the death of more people than the Holocaust?
You have to conduct official business with your government emails.
As I understand it, not always. It is sometimes approved on a case-by-case basis to use personal resources for official business. However, if you do, those personal resources become subject to FOIA requests (or discovery proceedings, in the event of a lawsuit) just as if they were official.
That’s one reason nobody in their right mind uses personal email addresses for official purposes if they have an official email. Literally your whole life could become discoverable.
It sounds like Dr. David Morens (and Dr. Anthony Fauci) thought they could get around FOIA requests by using a personal email. The courts will say otherwise, and it will be very interesting to find out if Dr. Morens’ now-discoverable email history holds other inflammatory information they’d like to hide.
“Do not rule out suing these assholes for slander,” wrote Morens in response.
Obviously, Dr. Morens doesn’t know that discovery can be a bitch.
Follow the money:
FAUCI BUYS EXCLUSIVE 150 ACRE LUXURY RETREAT ON THE POTOMAC WORTH $18.9 MILLION
https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/85010/bioterrorism-pays-dr-mengele-20-aka-dr-fauci-buys-exclusive-150-acre-luxury-retreat-on-the-potomac.html
How does a retired government salaried worker by such a thing?
Fauci is a mass-murderer for hire.
His money doubled during Covid, not counting off shore accounts
Life is good on the government dole I guess
Because he and hundreds of others in the NIH and CDC get a piece of the royalties that our taxes paid for through grants to drug companies. Joint research, joint money and the royalties last a lifetime.
“Fauci is a mass-murderer for hire.”
I suggest framing this as a question or clearly labeling it as opinion.
Tell me now this isn’t a fact?