Bombshell messages reveal Anthony Fauci’s top advisor bragging about making emails ‘disappear’

A top adviser to Anthony Fauci bragged about “how to make emails disappear” and removing “smoking guns” to avoid scrutiny, lawmakers investigating the origins of COVID-19 revealed Thursday.

The shocking comments came from health official Dr. David Morens, senior advisor to Fauci from 1998 to 2022.

Some of Morens’ emails were obtained through a congressional subpoena and were read by House Oversight Chairman James Comer during a hearing Thursday, part of lawmakers’ investigation into the theory that Covid emerged from a leak in a Chinese laboratory.

Morens, who works at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), wrote about having his communications deleted to prevent them from being released to the public under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

He wrote to Peter Daszak, whose organization EcoHealth Alliance had its federal funding suspended this week over its role in outsourcing controversial coronavirus research to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

“I learned from our FOIA lady here how to make emails disappear after I get a FOIA but before the search begins,” Morens wrote to Daszak. “So I think we’re all safe. Plus, I deleted most of those previous emails after sending them to Gmail.”

“We are all smart enough to know never to have smoking guns,” Morens wrote in a later post. “And if we did, we wouldn’t put them in emails. And if we found them, we would remove them.”

Morens was a senior advisor to Dr. from 1998 to 2022. Anthony Fauci

In the scathing email, Morens wrote to Peter Daszak (pictured), whose federal funding for the EcoHealth Alliance organization was suspended this week for his role in outsourcing controversial coronavirus research to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Some of Morens’ emails were obtained through a congressional subpoena and were read at a hearing Thursday. This particular email shows that Morens used his Gmail account to contact Peter Daszak

Fauci and his advisers at NIAID found themselves in the spotlight after it emerged that the agency funded the EcoHealth Alliance to conduct research, including experiments that altered coronaviruses to make them more dangerous.

EcoHealth outsourced the work to the Chinese laboratory in Wuhan and failed to adequately monitor it — potentially leading to an accident in 2020, according to the Department of Health and Human Services, which withdrew their funding on Wednesday would cause a global pandemic.

Congressman Brad Wenstrup, chairman of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, is now concerned that Morens and Daszak may have tried to cover their tracks after the scandal by deleting federal data.

His committee released emails last year showing Morens discussing using his personal email instead of the government’s and deleting communications to avoid scrutiny.

The top official at NIAID, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), wrote in an email to Daszak in 2021 that he communicates via Gmail “because my NIH email has been continually FOIA’d.”

“Send it to one of my addresses and I will remove anything I don’t want to see in the New York Times,” Morens wrote, according to the lawmakers.

Wenstrup has now sent Morens two subpoenas: one for all his Gmail correspondence about the origins of COVID-19, and another forcing him to testify before the committee on May 22.

DailyMail.com understands that Morens handed over around 30,000 emails to the commission on April 30.

Morens’ emails were obtained through a congressional subpoena and read by House Oversight Chairman James Comer during a hearing Thursday

Congressman Brad Wenstrup has now sent Morens two subpoenas: one for all his Gmail correspondence on the origins of COVID-19, and another compelling him to testify before the committee on May 22.

Two shocking emails were revealed during a committee hearing on Thursday, where former NIH acting director Lawrence Tabak testified.

After reading Morens’ messages about the deletion of communications, Comer asked Tabak, “Is that in accordance with NIH records retention policy?”

“It’s not,” he replied.

The nonprofit health research group US Right to Know has fought the NIH in court to release officials’ emails about the origins of COVID-19.

“In my past 31 years of public interest work, I have never seen a federal agency block public records requests as much as the NIH,” Gary Ruskin, executive director of Right to Know, told DailyMail.com.

He said NIH is a major culprit in the U.S. government trying to “hide or bury important information about the origins of COVID.”

“The conduct of the NIH is appalling and reprehensible. And now the Select Subcommittee is just beginning to figure out how this pushback really happened,” he added.

‘[Morens] was forced to turn over thousands of emails to the Select Subcommittee. He will soon testify about deleting emails and using a Gmail account to conduct official business.

“Once that testimony is complete, Congress and the public will have a better idea of ​​what consequences are appropriate for his crimes against our democracy.”