🚨BREAKING🚨 @COVIDSelect announces a subpoena to compel Dr. David Morens — a top advisor to Dr. Fauci — to hand-over COVID-19 documents in his personal email. This follows recently CONFIRMED whistleblower allegations that Dr. Morens used his Gmail to hide COVID-19 information.
Let's break it down🧵👇 Last week, Dr. Morens’s self-proclaimed “best friend” — @EcoHealthNYC President Dr. Peter Daszak — released four (partial) email threads. These emails show Morens recklessly providing Daszak with access to internal @NIH COVID & grant process information.
🚨Dr. Morens repeatedly put federal government operations at risk by sharing non-public information about @NIH grant processes with Dr. Daszak.
🚨Dr. Morens divulged internal @NIH conversations to Dr. Daszak about Dr. Fauci protecting EcoHealth. ▪️ "Tony is now fully aware and is...involved in some sort of damage control." ▪️ "Whatever is going on, I very much doubt that Tony...would willfully throw you under the bus."
🚨Egregiously, Dr. Morens used his @NIH email signature to sign off on "personal" emails from his Gmail account when communicating with Dr. Daszak about COVID-19.
🚨Dr. Daszak enthusiastically agreed to communicate with Dr. Morens via unofficial channels. Then, Dr. Daszak shared highly concerning COVID-19 information. ▪️"David – We’ll communicate with you via gmail from now on.” ▪️“...we have 15,000 samples in freezers in Wuhan...”
...and these examples are just the tip of the iceberg. Dr. Morens purposefully evaded federal transparency laws to give his "best friend," @EcoHealthNYC President Dr. Peter Daszak, non-public, internal information that had the potential to undermine U.S. government operations.
🚨@COVIDSelect is aware of additional correspondence related to COVID-19 in Dr. Morens’s personal email account that has not yet been released. Today's subpoena requires Dr. Morens to produce this information or face further Congressional action.
Read more in Chairman @RepBradWenstrup's subpoena cover letter here: oversight.house.gov/wp-content/upl… View the official subpoena for Dr. David Morens here: oversight.house.gov/wp-content/upl…