Fauci Aide Admits to Deleting emails about covid origins

[Robert Paulson]

I wonder why they’d need to delete all these emails if everything was on the up and up. And the emails were concerning the origin of covid. Hmm. Is yet another “conspiracy theory” going to turn into a not so conspiracy theory? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13468975/anthony-fauci-foia-lady-republican-investigation-covid.html

Edited May 30 by Robert Paulson

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

House panel takes Fauci adviser to task for allegedly evading public records laws

23 May 2024

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"A congressional panel yesterday grilled a top scientific adviser to former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director Anthony Fauci about email exchanges the witness had with his longtime friend Peter Daszak, EcoHealth’s embattled president. Both Democrats and Republicans on the panel suggested the adviser tried to evade public records laws and offered inappropriate help to the EcoHealth leader.

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Morens is now on administrative leave after it became public that he used personal email accounts to correspond with Daszak, as well as other researchers, about the 2020 suspension of a controversial NIAID grant to EcoHealth and its subsequent reinstatement.

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In his testimony, Morens repeatedly apologized for his actions and said “jokes” between friends were being misinterpreted as actual misdeeds. He said he switched to a personal Gmail account to correspond with Daszak because Daszak and his family were receiving death threats. He worried that personal information in NIH emails could be publicly released, after being requested via FOIA, and increase the risks for Daszak. He dismissed a comment he made about wanting a “kickback” from EcoHealth’s reinstated grant, as well as a reference to creating a “secret back channel” to Fauci, as “black humor” among friends trying to lift Daszak’s spirits."

 

https://www.science.org/content/article/house-panel-takes-fauci-adviser-task-allegedly-evading-public-records-laws

 

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

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https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Daszak-Testimony.pdf

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Health Officials Tried to Evade Public Records Laws, Lawmakers Say

May 28, 2024

 

House Republicans on Tuesday accused officials at the National Institutes of Health of orchestrating “a conspiracy at the highest levels” of the agency to hide public records related to the origins of the Covid pandemic. And the lawmakers promised to expand an investigation that has turned up emails in which senior health officials talked openly about trying to evade federal records laws.

 

The latest accusations — coming days before a House panel publicly questions Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, a former top N.I.H. official — represent one front of an intensifying push by lawmakers to link American research groups and the country’s premier medical research agency with the beginnings of the Covid pandemic.

 

That push has so far yielded no evidence that American scientists or health officials had anything to do with the coronavirus outbreak. But the House panel, the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, has released a series of private emails that suggest at least some N.I.H. officials deleted messages and tried to skirt public records laws in the face of scrutiny over the pandemic.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/28/health/nih-officials-foia-hidden-emails-covid.html

 

[Robert Paulson]

These email deletions by government employees are actual crimes for one. So just in and of itself this can send a person to jail. Now most of us know how it works and that will never happen but that is beside the point. 
 

But more importantly, you can’t defend this. There is no email deletion unless you are trying to cover something up, or you are somehow acting in a very nefarious manner. These are public employees paid by the public, and they don’t want people knowing what they were talking about! Why would that be. And it goes without saying this cover up is concerning a topic, covid origins, that killed potentially millions of people. So it is quite important, even possibly the crime of the century. But we’ll have to wait and see what the subjective investigations turn up with. 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

"That push has so far yielded no evidence that American scientists or health officials had anything to do with the coronavirus outbreak."

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/28/health/nih-officials-foia-hidden-emails-covid.html

 

[Yellowtail]

1 minute ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

"That push has so far yielded no evidence that American scientists or health officials had anything to do with the coronavirus outbreak."

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/28/health/nih-officials-foia-hidden-emails-covid.html

 

Only funding it. 

[0ffshore360]

2 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

"That push has so far yielded no evidence that American scientists or health officials had anything to do with the coronavirus outbreak."

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/28/health/nih-officials-foia-hidden-emails-covid.html

 

"so far has yielded no evidence" because of attempts to sanitize pertinent and/or complicit email records ?

 

 

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

14 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

Only funding it. 

 

The feds funded a grant. There's no proof thus far that the grant or the work done under the grant had anything to do with the outbreak of COVID.

 

Per the New York Times, May 1:

 

A heated hearing produced no new evidence that Peter Daszak or his nonprofit, EcoHealth Alliance, were implicated in the Covid outbreak.

 

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"But in a report and in extensive questioning on Wednesday, the Republicans offered no new information suggesting that EcoHealth Alliance or Dr. Daszak were involved in the coronavirus outbreak. And they did not produce any evidence pointing directly to a coronavirus leak from a lab in China, with or without EcoHealth’s involvement, a hitch in their yearslong effort to implicate Chinese and American scientists in the beginnings of the pandemic.

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The subcommittee, which is led by Republicans, has reviewed nearly a half-million pages of documents and conducted over 100 hours of private interviews in the course of investigating the origin of Covid, Representative Raul Ruiz of California, the panel’s top Democrat, said on Wednesday.

 

But, Mr. Ruiz said, the subcommittee has found “no evidence” linking the pandemic to EcoHealth’s research. And he added that the investigation had not “meaningfully advanced our understanding of the pandemic’s origins.”

 

https://archive.ph/Ho5gO#selection-7113.0-7117.219

 

 

Edited May 30 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[Yellowtail]

2 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

The feds funded a grant. There's no proof thus far that the grant or the work done under the grant had anything to do with the outbreak of COVID.

 

 

Right

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

COVID-19 lab leak theory

"The COVID-19 lab leak theory, or lab leak hypothesis, is the idea that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic, came from a laboratory. This claim is highly controversial; most scientists believe the virus spilled into human populations through natural zoonosis (transfer directly from an infected non-human animal), similar to the SARS-CoV-1 and MERS-CoV outbreaks, and consistent with other pandemics in human history.^[1] Available evidence suggests that the SARS-CoV-2 virus was originally harbored by bats, and spread to humans from infected wild animals, functioning as an intermediate host, at the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan, Hubei, China, in December 2019.^[5][6]

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_lab_leak_theory

 

If anyone reads thru the long entry linked above, they'll find repeated references to the phrase "conspiracy theory/ies" and "conspiratorial thinking."

 

Edited May 30 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[Yellowtail]

38 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

COVID-19 lab leak theory

"The COVID-19 lab leak theory, or lab leak hypothesis, is the idea that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic, came from a laboratory. This claim is highly controversial; most scientists believe the virus spilled into human populations through natural zoonosis (transfer directly from an infected non-human animal), similar to the SARS-CoV-1 and MERS-CoV outbreaks, and consistent with other pandemics in human history.^[1] Available evidence suggests that the SARS-CoV-2 virus was originally harbored by bats, and spread to humans from infected wild animals, functioning as an intermediate host, at the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan, Hubei, China, in December 2019.^[5][6]

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_lab_leak_theory

 

If anyone reads thru the long entry linked above, they'll find repeated references to the phrase "conspiracy theory/ies" and "conspiratorial thinking."

 

right

[Robert Paulson]

I don’t understand how one could say there’s no evidence. There are questions about what they did and now there’s proof they are deleting emails. Imagine if there was a murder and the car of the husband of the deceased disappeared the next day, and he could not explain the disappearance. Sure I guess technically you can say there is no evidence… but the fact that he obviously drove his car into a river or whatever sorta proves it if you have half a brain 

[impulse]

On 5/30/2024 at 6:00 PM, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

The feds funded a grant. There's no proof thus far that the grant or the work done under the grant had anything to do with the outbreak of COVID.

 

So if I gave someone a bunch of money for purple paint, and the next day found the street in front of my house painted purple, there's no proof that I funded it?

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

"The definition of “gain of function” covers both general research and especially risky experiments to “enhance” the ability of potentially pandemic pathogens to spread or cause severe disease in humans. Fauci stressed he [in rejecting Republicans' claims of lying] was only using the risky experiment definition, saying “it would be molecularly impossible” for the bat viruses studied with EcoHealth’s funds to be turned into the virus that caused the pandemic." [emphasis added]

 

https://apnews.com/article/fauci-covid-pandemic-origin-congress-a66625482f25824476ee315484790230