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Ex-Fauci top adviser offers apologies and excuses after COVID email
revelations
Morens said, 'I was joking,' when asked about personal emails
Jamie Joseph By Jamie Joseph Fox News
Published May 22, 2024 6:40pm EDT | Updated May 22, 2024 6:55pm EDT

Top Fauci adviser allegedly destroyed COVID-era emails
Hours after the release of several seemingly damning emails revealing
his provocative COVID-era communications, a former top adviser to Dr.
Anthony Fauci offered excuses and apologies — but few real answers —
during a contentious congressional showdown.

Dr. David Morens, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious
Diseases (NIAID) senior adviser, appeared before the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability on Wednesday afternoon with few insights
about the alarming messages but a host of apologies to lawmakers. The
newly released emails detail interactions between Morens and Dr. Peter
Daszak, president of the EcoHealth Alliance, a non-governmental
organization that funded coronavirus research in Wuhan, China.

"It's just something I'm very ashamed that I can't put the toothpaste
back in the tube," Morens said of the emails' language, much of which he attributed to being just "black humor."

Republican lawmakers accuse Morens of deleting emails and using his
personal email account to skirt Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.

FAUCI ADVISER'S ALLEGED DESTRUCTION OF COVID ORIGIN DOCS MUST BE PROBED
BY AG: RAND PAUL

Dr. David Morens emails recently released by House lawmakers investigating.

In one of the newly released emails to Daszak, Morens said he "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. Plus I deleted
most of those earlier emails after sending them to Gmail."

During Wednesday's testimony, Morens said "that was a joke" when House
Rep. Richard McCormick, R-Ga., asked what he learned from the "FOIA lady."

"Are you sure about that? We can subpoena her email too," McCormick
responded. "You said she gave you advice… so you were lying then but
telling us the truth now?"

"I wasn't lying, I was making a joke. I said something like, ‘I have a
way to make it go away.’ But that was just a euphemism," Morens responded.

Dr. David Morens emails recently released by House lawmakers investigating. Morens also wrote from his personal email account to Daszak, saying, "We
are all smart enough to know to never have smoking guns and if we did,
we wouldn’t put them in emails. And if we found them, we would delete them."

Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., asked Morens if he "deleted any records" or
had conversations with Fauci regarding deletions.

"Not to my knowledge," Morens said. "But again, we're at the issue of
defining what's a federal record? I deleted a lot of emails. I do it
every day."

HIGH-RANKING FAUCI ADVISER USED PERSONAL EMAIL TO AVOID FOIA REQUESTS,
DISCUSS COVID ORIGIN

Dr. David Morens emails recently released by House lawmakers investigating.
At one point in the hearing, Morens offered: "I don't know what to say
except I'm sorry."

In other released emails, Morens appeared to express concerns about what
was being sent to his work email and what was sent to his personal
email, informing those on the email chain that they did not need to
worry and that he would "delete anything I don’t want to see in the New
York Times." It is not clear if any deletions actually occurred.

"As you know, I try to always communicate on gmail because my NIH email
is FOIA’d constantly," Morens wrote in a September 2021 email, which was
sent at the time to many scientists involved in the debate about the
origins of the COVID-19 virus. "Stuff sent to my gmail gets to my phone
… but not my NIH computer."

FAUCI ADMITS SOCIAL DISTANCING NOT BASED ON SCIENCE, 'SORT OF JUST APPEARED'

Dr. David Morens emails recently released by House lawmakers investigating.

Dr. David Morens emails recently released by House lawmakers investigating.

Dr. David Morens emails recently released by House lawmakers investigating.
Fox News' Kyle Morris contributed to this report.

Jamie Joseph is a writer who covers politics. She leads Fox News Digital coverage of the Senate.


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nokar
20 hours ago

Based on this testimony it looks like a new Federal Law would be
appropriate. One that requires that ALL email sent via official
government agency email systems be retained on the server for a minimum
of 10 years after the individual leaves government employ and that
stipulates that ANY use of pers...

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mcpig599
13 hours ago

I do believe that is already in place, ALL government business is
supposed to be on their GOVERNMENT email systems for the very reason of preventing deletion. Even we in State government understand Federal
based records retention rules.


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starmizzle_
20 hours ago

Retained forever. Space isn't an issue and those emails belong to us
since we paid for them.

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truth_not_talkingpoints
15 hours ago

In 2020, there were battleground states in the presidential election. We
know which states those were. Weird how they all went one way by small
margins.

In 2020, local and state elections officials made "rule changes" due to
COVID (A manufactured crisis by NIH, today more than proved that). Those
r...

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speakingtoyou
9 hours ago

COVID taught us well that Joe Biden and the Democrats will take away our Freedoms.

-Massive censorship

-Extended lockdowns

-Mandated mRNA injections


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raisedbyrepublicans
9 hours ago

So let’s make 2024 too big to rig.

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Enalysis687
20 hours ago

These aren’t jokes. It appears to be a conspiracy to evade federal law and/or to obstruct justice and/or to destroy evidence. All of this
points to a consciousness of wrongdoing.


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KZRIDER78
9 hours ago

Only about what 4 million Americans took an early out from employers
enabled to thin the herd,.. and now with the democrat economy, had to
return just to afford consistent health insurance. Let alone the long
term affects of a shot that made everything a whole lot more
complicated. Yet we still do ...See more

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spaz466
11 hours ago

Where are the AGs? States can go after these guys.


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