Dr. Anthony Fauci disavowed a longtime senior adviser at a congressional hearing on June 3 and said the official violated federal rules by using personal email for official business and editing the press release of a government grantee.
Dr. David Morens’s title is senior scientific adviser in the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) office of the director. Dr. Fauci was the director from 1984 through 2022.
Dr. Morens recently acknowledged to the U.S. House of Representatives Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic that he deleted emails, after unearthed messages showed him bragging about learning how to avoid the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). He also communicated frequently with Peter Daszak, the head of the EcoHealth Alliance, which funneled NIAID grant money to a lab in China….
