Anthony Fauci adviser indicted by Department of Justice
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Via: vic-eldred • 7 months ago • 24 commentsBy: Story by Josh Christenson
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WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice indicted a former senior adviser to Dr. Anthony Fauci on Tuesday for allegedly concealing records amid probes into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.
David Morens, 78, has been charged with conspiracy against the United States; destruction, alteration, or falsification of records in federal investigations; concealment, removal, or mutilation of records; and aiding and abetting.
The indictment, unsealed Monday in Maryland federal court, also lists two unnamed co-conspirators who “concealed, removed, destroyed and caused the concealment, and removal of federal records to evade FOIA [Freedom of Information Act] and FRA [Federal Records Act].”
Morens, who served as a senior advisor to Fauci from 2006 to 2022, conducted official government business from a private email account and asked the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) FOIA liaison for tips on how to evade records requests, according to communications first exposed by The Post in May 2024.
“[T]here is no worry about FOIAs. I can either send stuff to Tony on his private gmail [sic], or hand it to him at work or at his house,” Morens wrote in one April 21, 2021, email. “He is too smart to let colleagues send him stuff that could cause trouble.”
Two months prior, Morens said in a Feb. 24 email: “[I] learned from our foia [sic] lady here how to make emails disappear after I am foia’d [sic] but before the search starts.”
“Plus I deleted most of those earlier emails after sending them to gmail [sic],” he noted.
On Sept. 9, 2021, Morens wrote that he would “always communicate on gmail [sic] because my NIH email is FOIA’d constantly” and “delete anything I don’t want to see in the New York Times.”
Morens oversaw a now-infamous grant from NIH to the Manhattan-based nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance beginning in 2014 that ended up funneling US taxpayer dollars to the Wuhan Institute of Virology for bat coronavirus research.
“These allegations represent a profound abuse of trust at a time when the American people needed it most — during the height of a global pandemic,” Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a statement.
“As alleged in the indictment, Dr. Morens and his co-conspirators deliberately concealed information and falsified records in an effort to suppress alternative theories regarding the origins of COVID-19 . Government officials have a solemn duty to provide honest, well-grounded facts and advice in service of the public interest — not to advance their own personal or ideological agendas.”
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Morens oversaw a now-infamous grant from NIH to the Manhattan-based nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance beginning in 2014 that ended up funneling US taxpayer dollars to the Wuhan Institute of Virology for bat coronavirus research.
For the critical thinkers out there: THE FACTS HAVE JUST ROLLED IN.
At least we know the truth. Accountability is another matter when it comes to despicable DC juries.
It’s not really “critical thinking” to push conspiracy theories for years, and then produce “facts” which, so far, are just allegations. You’re calling it critical thinking because it says something that pleases you.
How do you go from an allegation and substantial connecting of dots to 'truth'?
Critical thinking involves facts (or at least persuasive, quality evidence).
When someone pushes conspiracy theories, expect to be challenged.
Claiming you're doing "critical thinking" is like claiming you're a "very stable genius". Anyone who is stable and an actual genius would never make such a comical statement, just like no one who was engaged in actual "critical thinking" would ever declare they were "critical thinking". Those making such declarations or claiming the information they're disseminating is for "critical thinkers" are no different than the Ovaltine commercials in "A Christmas Story" telling Ralphie to stay tuned for the Little Orphan Annie super-secret message that they can decode with their "critical thinker" decoder pins only to find out the message is D R I N K Y O U R M A G A K O O L - A I D .
Don't worry. Dr Fauci was already pardoned for anything he may have done.
Good point.
Those making such declarations or claiming the information they're disseminating is for "critical thinkers" are no different than the Ovaltine commercials in "A Christmas Story" telling Ralphie to stay tuned for the Little Orphan Annie super-secret message that they can decode with their "critical thinker" decoder pins only to find out the message is D R I N K Y O U R M A G A K O O L - A I D .
Then you missed it. We had self-described critical thinkers who refuse to believe that the Coronavirus started in a Wuhan lab or that Dr Fauci funded gain of function research. They claimed to be waiting for the facts to come in. It might be a good idea to not jump in when you have no idea what the seeder is talking about.
LOL. Okay, you do whatever you need to do to delude yourself into thinking any of that matters in the slightest. The moronic conspiracy theories of the "Wuhan" lab and all that noise is like Vaseline for all the halfwits circle jerking to this non-news. What a bunch of fucking idiots.
What facts have come in that changed anything? Just because this guy was indicted proves nothing.
Oh, look at you, pretending to care about me. I know exactly what this silly conspiracy theory seed is about, no need to try and 'protect me' from the 'overwhelming conservative arguments' here, lol.
'Worry' is an entirely inappropriate word.
Truth and justice are what matter.
Partisan-induced attacks are part of the problem with our nation.
Thanks! I haven't laughed that hard all day, I needed that.
That is the kind of language promoting violence. Some right-wing crazies might be influenced to shoot up a D.C. courthouse.
But there aren't any ... other than the ones the SPLC manufactured.
Facts dispell your little bit of fiction there.
You can read their comments on here. They're real, or they're bots.
I looked and looked and looked and I didn't find anything supporting your fantasy.
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Keep looking. You'll find it.
Here are some recent examples of Right wing violence you seem to have forgotten. Or do you simply not object ?
16 times that pipe bombs were mailed to Democratic politicians and others critical of Donald Trump, including Obama.
Five days later, housekeeping found broken glass is Sasha's bedroom from a broken window.
Republicans Exploit Kirk’s Death While Ignoring a Decade of Far-Right Carnage
I could go on, the internet is still a fabulous tool if you can avoid AI.
There should be penalties for government officials who use private email to avoid the need for accountability and transparency.
There should be, but everyone in Washington does it... or at least did it, until apps like WhatsApp started up. Russia and China don't need to hack Pentagon servers when they can just datamine a smart phone app.
Like Hillary and half of the Obama and first Trump Administration?
Or like Hegsbeth installing phone lines to avoid the FBI from listening to or monitoring his communications and special Apps?
Check out how many J6 rioters who were pardoned and arrested again. Several have been arrested for child sex crines.
Also check out the most recent MAGA influencer close to Trump who has been arrested for sex crimes. He was most recently photographed at the fight match Trump arranged.
At this same venue international sex criminal Andrew Tate attended who received preferential treatment by Trump and he was even invited and photographed at the White House.
Start looking at the people Trump pardoned and who he permits to be included in his social circle.
About 2%.
The recidivism rate for most criminals is 62-68%
Pretty much every day, there's a story in the news about somebody with dozens of arrests left to roam free by pro crime Democratic Prosecutors who murder someone. Just the other day a violent felon arrested yet again for armed carjacking was roaming free and he murdered a Chicago cop. Does that bother you?
The rate for J6 rioters has been 2% over 5 plus years.
3% of the American population is arrested every year. J6 rioters are significantly more law abiding than the average American.