private email. there is a troubling pattern of behavior from your inner circle. not just dr. morens but your chief of staff. do you agree it violates niaid policy to use personal email for official purposes? the dr. morens issue that was discussed by this committee violates nih policy, yes. does using official email using a personal email for official business violate? using a personal email for official business violates policy. does it violate niaid policy to delete records to avoid foia? yes. dr. morens edited an eco health press release
convicted felon who told americans to inject themselves with bleach now want you to believe not only a big political lie but a big medical lie, too. i hope that this committee will be able to correct all of the propaganda and disinformation today and able to actually return to what the good ranking member has said which is an authentic investigation of the origins of pandemic and i will yield back to the gentleman. i yield back. i now recognize mr. griffith for a three-minute statement good morning. i want to again thank the leadership of this committee for including the energy and commerce committee in this hearing. dr. fauci, the recent revelations that dr. morens, a senior advisor and chief of staff routinely evaded federal records laws including the freedom of information act or foia and those were a shock. it was a shock. i ve been doing oversight now for over 14 years, right at 14
saying. dr. morens your senior advisor for over 20 years said in a email i learned from your foia lady here now how to make emails disappear when i am foye added. before the search starts. i think we re all safe plot i deleted most of these earlier emails after sending them to g-mail. in another email dated 4/21/21 he said i forgot to say there is no worry about foia i can sets end it to him or hand it to him. see too smart to let colleagues send him stuff that could cause trouble. were you ever engaged in attempts to obstruct the freedom of information act and the release of public documents? no. did dr. morens communicate with you about official business using his private email? official business?
of behavior from your inner circle. not just dr. morens but your chief of staff. do you agree it violates niaid policy to use personal email for official purposes? the dr. morens issue that was discussed by this committee violates nih policy, yes. does using official email using a personal email for official business violate? using a personal email for official business violates policy. does it violate niaid policy to delete records to avoid foia? yes. dr. morens edited an eco health press release
used personal emails to communicate and circumvent freedom of information laws. so i just had a couple questions about that. dr. fauci, did you delete any emails or records related to the wuhan labor origins of the virus? no, i did not. okay. dr. morens said in a may 2021 email he indicated that he was connecting people to you in a quote secret back channel. do you know what he was referring to? i don t have any idea what he is talking about. there is no back channel at niaid. he also said in another email there is no worry about freedom of information act. i can send stuff to tony on his private email. did you communicate with anyone relating to anything regarding nih or with dr. morens on a private email? i don t do government business on my private email.