Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) demanded the DOJ investigate Dr. David Morens for allegedly destroying emails about the origins of COVID-19.
Morens served as a top aide to Dr. Anthony Fauci at the NIH.
“I write to urge the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to open an investigation into the alleged improper concealment and intentional destruction of records by Dr. David Morens, Senior Advisor to the Director at the National Institutes of Health (NIH),” Paul wrote to AG Merrick Garland. “Additionally, I request you investigate allegations that employees within NIH’s FOIA office may have conspired with Dr. Morens to evade public records retention laws.”
The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic revealed emails that point to Morens using his private email account to conduct government business, including asking the NIH FOIA office how to avoid requests.
The emails also show Morens admitted to deleting emails about the origins of COVID-19.
In February 2021, Morens worried about FOIA requests, promising he would be more careful thanks to the NIH FOIA office.
“I learned from our foia lady here how to make emails disappear after i am foia’d but before the search starts, so i think we are all safe,” Morens wrote. “Plus i deleted most of those earlier emails after sending them to gmail.”
Lovely.
Morens stated in another email that he had access to Fauci’s personal email address and used it to conduct government business. Fauci also conducted business with the email address.
In April 2021, Morens told Dr. Peter Daszak of EcoHealth Alliance that he shouldn’t worry about FOIAs.
“I can either send stuff to Tony on his private gmail or hand it to him at work or at his house,” continued Morens. “He is too smart to let colleagues send him stuff that could cause trouble.”
Yes, that Daszak, who Leslie has written about many times! He recently admitted that Americans funded fain-of-function virus experiments in Wuhan, China.
In May 2021, Morens made it known they had a back channel.
“I suggested Arthur to interview Tony directly and connected him to our ‘secret’ back channel,” Morens wrote to colleagues. “He emailed Tony a few hours ago.”
It wasn’t until November he found out he should reveal information with his personal address.
Morens told one person, “I forgot to clarify in my email yesterday that BOTH my gmail and phone calls are now safe. Text is NOT, as it can be FOIA’s, as can my govt email.”
“So you and Peter and others should be able to email me on gmail only, with the caveat that no other govt. employee is copied at a govt address, as all govt emails are potentially FOIA’able,” he added.
It seems that Morens and Daszak had a cozy relationship because he began providing Daszak with inside information in April 2020.
It’s a cozy relationship, right? Morens told Daszak he would delete sensitive official records, especially if they harmed him.
Also, did Fauci delete emails?
Oh, baby. I wonder if Daszak had anything on Morens because other emails prove that Morens “acted as an agent on behalf of a federal grantee, EcoHealth.”
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