Dr. David Morens emails recently released by House lawmakers investigating.
In one of the newly released emails to Daszak, Morens said he "learned from our FOIA lady here how to make emails disappear after I am FOIA’d, but before the search starts. So I think we are all safe. Plus I deleted most of those earlier emails after sending them to Gmail."
During Wednesday's testimony, Morens said "that was a joke" when House Rep. Richard McCormick, R-Ga., asked what he learned from the "FOIA lady."
"Are you sure about that? We can subpoena her email too," McCormick responded. "You said she gave you advice … so you were lying then but telling us the truth now?"
"I wasn't lying, I was making a joke. I said something like, ‘I have a way to make it go away.’ But that was just a euphemism," Morens responded.
Dr. David Morens emails recently released by House lawmakers investigating.
At one point in the hearing, Morens offered: "I don't know what to say except I'm sorry."
In other released emails, Morens appeared to express concerns about what was being sent to his work email and what was sent to his personal email, informing those on the email chain that they did not need to worry and that he would "delete anything I don’t want to see in the New York Times." It is not clear if any deletions actually occurred.
"As you know, I try to always communicate on gmail because my NIH email is FOIA’d constantly," Morens wrote in a September 2021 email, which was sent at the time to many scientists involved in the debate about the origins of the COVID-19 virus. "Stuff sent to my gmail gets to my phone … but not my NIH computer."
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Dr. David Morens emails recently released by House lawmakers investigating.
Dr. David Morens emails recently released by House lawmakers investigating.
Fox News' Kyle Morris contributed to this report.
Jamie Joseph is a writer who covers politics. She leads Fox News Digital coverage of the Senate.
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