A House committee has issued a subpoena to a senior advisor to Dr. Fauci, the former head of NIAID, requesting access to all of his correspondence.
Following the disclosure of some of Dr. David Morens’ communications, the Select Subcommittee on the Covid Pandemic made this astounding decision.
Unveiled this week, the emails reveal Morens candidly discussing the NIAID’s collaboration with the EcoHealth Alliance’s founder, Peter Daszak. EcoHealth Alliance received $3.4 million in funding from the NIH but instead sent the funds to the notorious Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Covid Pandemic Subcommittee news release states that Morens “deliberately exploited his personal email to mask conversations concerning the origins of COVID-19 and defy government transparency regulations.”
“Dr. Morens carelessly gave Dr. Daszak access to confidential data and revealed the details of internal NIAID discussions.” The press statement states that “in one email, Dr. Morens seems to have revealed Dr. Fauci’s efforts and given Dr. Daszak information on internal deliberations linked to EcoHealth Alliance’s grant suspension.”
“In an email to Dr. Daszak, Dr. Morens stated, ‘I believe Tony is now fully aware and is participating in some form of damage control.’ In a subsequent email, Dr. Daszak consents to speaking with Dr. Morens about COVID-19 and NIAID grants using his personal Gmail account rather than his official one. He begins, “David, we will communicate with you via gmail from now on,” and then, alarmingly, adds, “We have 15,000 samples in freezers in Wuhan.”
Republican committee head Brad Wenstrup blasted Morens for his “abuse of power” and “blatant contempt for the law” in a statement.
“In order to provide his ‘best friend,’ Dr. Peter Daszak of EcoHealth Alliance, with non-public, internal information that may potentially jeopardize the US government’s operations, Dr. David Morens deliberately skirted FOIA laws,” the statement read. “This is probably against the law, as well as extremely worrying.”
“Dr. Morens needs to be held accountable for any misuse of authority and his flagrant disobedience to the law.” He continued, “The demand for Dr. Morens’s private email correspondence will reveal the truth regarding this federal records violation.”
In reality, EcoHealth Alliance disclosed the initial set of emails that sparked this subpoena in an effort to refute allegations made by a whistleblower that Morens had used his email account to discuss COVID-19 with others before erasing the pertinent correspondence.
“Emails exchanged between the National Institutes of Health staff and EcoHealth Alliance have been the subject of several recent news publications,” the organization stated in a statement upon the emails’ release. “These reports claim that the emails are part of a cover-up or indicate inappropriate communications, but they do not display the full language of the disputed emails.”
“The entire content of these email chains is available online, courtesy of EcoHealth Alliance. In stark contrast to the news reports, they demonstrate that EcoHealth Alliance was properly in contact with senior NIH employees or those who had previously worked there in order to find a way to restore a grant that had been abruptly and arbitrarily terminated and then suspended with onerous conditions, the statement reads.
However, the misguided attempt to curry favor with critics resulted in a flurry of criticism at EcoHealth Alliance and the most recent subpoena.
In his January testimony, Morens had previously denied ever deleting any emails for the committee.
This claim sparked serious concerns because it contradicted statements made by Dr. Morens in emails previously made public by the Select Subcommittee, in which he said, “I will delete anything I do not want to see in the New York Times” and “I always try to communicate through gmail because my NIH email is FOIA’d constantly.”
Subsequently, the committee received several communications from the anonymous whistleblower, enough to persuade members that Morens was not being completely truthful.
Author: Steven Sinclaire
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