Top Fauci Advisor Facing Allegations for Email Schandal Surrounding Deletion of COVID Origin Emails

Congress is set to interrogate a former top advisor to the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Dr. Anthony Fauci, who boasted about removing "smoking gun" emails pertaining to the COVID-19 pandemic's origins. Former NIAID senior scientific adviser Dr. David Morens will testify regarding his alleged breaches of federal record-keeping regulations and his efforts to impede a House probe concerning the government's response to the pandemic. The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic has subpoenaed Morens, the former employee of Fauci from 1998 to 2022, for "confidential" emails he sent from his personal account concerning lab biosafety and other correspondence pertaining to a contentious National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant that was directed to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Morens avoided answering Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests from the media, according to earlier emails that were received by the House subcommittee.

On September 9, 2021, Morens sent an email stating that he would "remove anything I do not want to read in the New York Times" and "always talk on gmail [sic] because my NIH email is FOIA'd frequently."

Following a contentious hearing with NIH senior deputy director Lawrence Tabak last week, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) disclosed that Morens had told the now-suspended grant recipient for the Wuhan lab funding that he had discovered "how to make emails disappear" through FOIA searches.

“’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,'” Comer read into the record from one email exchange with EcoHealth Alliance president Dr. Peter Daszak.

"'Plus, I deleted most of those earlier emails after sending them to Gmail,’” Comer said, continuing to read before asking Tabak, “Is that consistent with NIH document retention policies?”

“It is not,” Tabak said, adding with alarm that he “certainly hope[d]” The NIH FOIA office had not taught Morens how to skirt the requests.

“We are all smart enough to know to never have smoking guns,” Morens wrote in another message read aloud by Comer. “And if we did we wouldn’t put them in emails. And if we found them we would delete them.”

More than half a million dollars of the $4 million that EcoHealth received from the NIH to study bat coronaviruses was given to the Wuhan Institute of Virology for dangerous gain-of-function research between 2014 and 2021.

Republicans and Democrats on the COVID panel questioned Daszak earlier this month and that the Justice Department look into his criminal history for perhaps providing misleading testimony to the subcommittee regarding the EcoHealth award.

As a result of Wenstrup drawing attention to Morens' suspected record infractions last year, Morens is currently on administrative leave.

FOR A DEEPER DIVE INTO THE STORY SEE: United States House Committee on Oversight & Accountability Report

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