After a long #FOIA fight, I just received a bunch of new unredacted emails detailing the Feb 1 2020 teleconference between Dr. Fauci and virologists discussing SARS-Cov-2: documentcloud.org/documents/2331…
I am reviewing the documents now, but some of this material was previously redacted and help sheds light on early NIH discussions re: origins of COVID-19:
Finally, a second set of documents, mostly emails between Dr. Fauci and Kristian Andersen, which have finally been unredacted in full after months of #FOIA litigation: documentcloud.org/documents/2331…
The articles about these documents are starting to be published. It will be interesting and informative to see which outlets pick them up: telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/11/2…
I'm scheduled to speak with Senate staffers next week to discuss these records, and more specifically to discuss how to reform #FOIA at NIH and other fed agencies. It shouldn't require a year-long lawsuit to get documents like these. If you have FOIA reform ideas, I'm all ears.
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Breaking: In a 2021 exchange with leading scientists about Covid origins, a long-time NIH adviser to Dr. Fauci admitted to using a personal email address in an apparent effort to evade FOIA. He also expressed his intent to delete emails. My latest: theintercept.com/2023/06/29/cov…
Dr. Morens is a top official at NIAID:
I joined @ryangrim on the Deconstructed podcast to talk about my recent @theintercept story, covering Covid origins, etc. Check it out: shows.acast.com/1d1223a2-9d05-…
Glad to see the release of these records re: early COVID origins discussions at NIH. I am litigating for them in federal court, and now they are available for the public to view: joncohen.org/2022/10/22/obt…
What do you know, NIH this morning issued a new response to my FOIA request, removing *some* of the redactions I am challenging in court. There are still illegitimate redactions in their new release tho. The lawsuit continues. documentcloud.org/documents/2320…
This is an interesting portion of documents that I had not seen before, on Nature apparently rejecting the Proximal Origin paper:
The Senate has just opened hearings to consider whether Daniel Jorjani should become the Interior Department's new top lawyer. Jorjani is a former adviser to Charles Koch and a key ally of Secretary David Bernhardt: psmag.com/environment/fo…
As a top aide at the Interior Department since the early days of the Trump administration, Jorjani is the one who took a meat cleaver to the Migratory Bird Treaty Act: revealnews.org/article/trumps…
He also helped initiate the Trump administration's drive to open lands near the Boundary Water wilderness in Minnesota to new metal mining: washingtonpost.com/news/energy-en…