By David Morens, a former top adviser to ex-National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director Dr. Anthony Fauci, has been caught red-handed. A former scientific advisor, Morens bragged about deleting evidence related to the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic in emails recovered by a House investigation.
He claimed he wanted to hide the “smoking gun.”
Fauci’s right-hand man testified during a tense hearing that he was purposely trying to hide his work from those using the Freedom of Information Act, reported The Daily Mail.
Morens, who works at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), wrote about deleting his communications to avoid turning them over to the public under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
He was writing to Peter Daszak, whose organization EcoHealth Alliance had its federal funding suspended this week for its role in contracting controversial coronavirus research to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
‘I learned from our FOIA lady here how to make emails disappear after I am FOIA’d but before the search starts,’ Morens wrote to Daszak. ‘So I think we are all safe. Plus I deleted most of those earlier emails after sending them to Gmail.’
‘We are all smart enough to know to never have smoking guns,’ Morens wrote in a later message. ‘And if we did we wouldn’t put them in emails. And if we found them we would delete them.’
Earlier in the month, it was revealed that Fauci had been funding EcoHealth to perform dangerous research on bat coronaviruses. The group eventually funneled half a million dollars from the NIH to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which many believe leaked COVID-19 virus into the population and sparked the global pandemic that killed millions.
The New York Post wrote, “Republicans and Democrats on the COVID subcommittee grilled Daszak and recommended the Justice Department criminally investigate him for having given potentially false testimony to the subcommittee about the EcoHealth grant.
The US Department of Health and Human Services later suspended and proposed for debarment the Manhattan-based nonprofit for failing to hand over documents about the research for years and approving experiments that ‘likely violated protocols of the NIH regarding biosafety.’”
NIH principal deputy director Lawrence Tabak testified last week that Fauci, former NIH Director Francis Collins, and many others may have committed perjury before Congress because the experiments happening at Wuhan and EcoHealth constituted gain-of-function research, something they have all denied over the past few years.
The Post continued, “One of Morens’ emails obtained by the House COVID panel shows the NIH adviser discussing how Fauci was preparing to respond to accusations that the Wuhan research lab used substandard biosafety levels.
Talking points shared with Fauci brushed off the suggestion that the chimeric virus created by the Wuhan experiments caused the COVID-19 pandemic, but other private emails released later by EcoHealth show Daszak in April 2020 acknowledging his organization had ‘15,000 samples in freezers in Wuhan.”’
Senator Rand Paul spoke to Fox News earlier in the week and stated the obvious: Morens looks to have been caught in a cover-up to protect Fauci.
Paul said in an interview with Fox News Digital that the emails show “they all realize that if Fauci’s been funding Daszak for years through EcoHealth, and if it looks like they’re implicated in the pandemic, this wouldn’t be good for Fauci or EcoHealth.”
The former doctor said the new email disclosures are ‘important’ because “they add more color and context between Fauci and EcoHealth’s public message ‘shaping’ about its gain-of-function research and their private ‘concerns.'”
“One of the main arguments that Fauci and others make is that there is no published virus that could have been COVID or manipulated to become COVID,” Paul explained.
It’s important that as this information comes out, we find out all of the things that was known at that time,” Paul said, adding that in private, Fauci was “very concerned” about gain-of-function research in Wuhan.
The Kentucky senator continued: “the concern privately is much different than publicly where they tried to shape the message,” referencing Fauci’s public comments that the virus had to have originated in nature and not a lab.
“To a lot of us looking at it, it looks like a cover-up,” Paul said.
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