Unearthed Emails Blow Hole In Fauci’s Claim That He Never Asked Staff To Delete Emails
Former White House Medical Advisor Anthony Fauci directed other federal officials to delete his emails, new documents indicate, contradicting his sworn testimony to Congress that he never instructed staff to evade…
Former White House Medical Advisor Anthony Fauci directed other federal officials to delete his emails, new documents indicate, contradicting his sworn testimony to Congress that he never instructed staff to evade federal recordkeeping law.
“Please delete this e-mail after you read it,” Fauci wrote to National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins when both men were still federal officials on Feb. 2, 2020, documents show. Longtime Fauci foil Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky published the emails on X Wednesday morning.
The Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs, which Paul chairs, has been investigating the origins of COVID for years.
Fauci did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The former White House adviser wrote this directive in an exchange involving Collins and then-Wellcome Trust Director Jeremy Farrar, the emails show. The public health officials — who altogether oversaw billions in biomedical research funding — were seeking to manage and contain public discussion about the potential origins of COVID-19 by involving the World Health Organization (WHO), other previously published emails demonstrate.
“I share your view that a swift convening of experts in a confidence inspiring framework (WHO seems really the only option) is needed, or the voices of conspiracy will quickly dominate, doing great potential harm to science and international harmony,” Collins wrote to Farrar, Fauci, and NIH official Lawrence Tabak on the morning of Feb. 2, 2020.
Fauci sent another email on Feb. 2, 2020 expressing a sense of urgency about dampening discussion of a possible lab origin and saw a WHO panel as the solution.