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:

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:

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…

A note from a doctor in Michigan who my sister knows. Fair warning: it is genuinely terrifying. 1/ 2/

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…