A GOP-led House panel is seeking access to Dr. Anthoni Fauci‘s personal email accounts and cell phone records as part of an investigation into the origins of COVID-19.
Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-OH), chairman of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, made the request in a letter to Fauci on Wednesday ahead of the former government health official’s planned testimony next week.
Emails show Dr. David Morens, Fauci’s former senior adviser, discussed a “‘secret’ back channel” and suggested that Fauci used a private account to get around Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.
“He is too smart to let colleagues send him stuff that could cause trouble,” Morens said in one April 2021 email obtained by the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic.
Morens testified to the subcommittee last week that he “may have” sent information related to COVID-19 to…
