Aselect House panel on the coronavirus pandemic wants answers from a senior scientific adviser to Dr. Anthony Fauci when he was director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and who has implied Fauci tried to covertly discredit the COVID-19 lab leak theory.
Ohio GOP Rep. Brad Wenstrup, chairman of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, is asking the adviser, David Morens, to turn over documents and communications from his personal email and cellphone, based on information suggesting Morens is intentionally using non-government communications to avoid disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act and violate federal record-keeping laws.
The information is purportedly in Morens' emails, and the subcommittee wants a transcribed interview Aug. 2.
The Intercept published dozens of pages of emails including Morens, already obtained by the subcommittee, with scientists who were also seeking to discredit lab leak.