Funding the Pandemic, Hiding the Communications

Anthony Fauci and friends were funding gain-of-function research in the Wuhan China lab where the virus may have originated. To hinder inquiry, Team Fauci used non-government emails to communicate and avoid open records obligations. These federal government employees should be reprimanded for hiding communications. The virus funding fiasco is another matter which Congress may like to investigate.

“As you know, I try to always communicate on gmail because my NIH email is FOIA’d constantly,” wrote David M. Morens, a high-ranking NIH official, in a September 2021 email, one of a series of email exchanges that included many leading scientists involved in the bitter Covid origins debate. “Stuff sent to my gmail gets to my phone,” he added, “but not my NIH computer.”

“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 Daszak in one email on September 7.

“Do not rule out suing these assholes for slander,” wrote Morens in response.