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Co-Conspirator 1 👉🏻 Peter Daszak Co-Conspirator 2 👉🏻 Gerald Keusch Company #1 👉🏻 EcoHealth Alliance Senior NIAID Official 1 👉🏻 Anthony Fauci David Morens, a former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) employee, is facing indictment for his role in a scheme to evade Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests in connection with COVID-19 research grants. Morens is charged with conspiracy against the US; destruction, alteration, or falsification of records in federal investigations; concealment, removal, or mutilation of records; and aiding and abetting. Morens served as a senior advisor in NIAID’s Office of the Director from 2006 through 2022. As a senior advisor, Morens counseled Senior NIAID Official 1 and other senior-level NIAID staff on senior-level policies, developed recommendations and solutions for issues impacting the NIH, and wrote and edited manuscripts. Morens also provided guidance and expertise to senior staff members on epidemiological studies and issues related to infectious disease planning and management. Additionally, Morens gathered information from grantees and others in the scientific community to establish facts about the nature of COVID-19. This enabled Morens to understand NIH and NIAID’s historical activities in coronavirus research, assist in formulating policy and procedures, and brief Senior NIAID Official 1 so he could then relay information to POTUS, Congress, and the public. Morens, Co-Conspirator 1, Co-Conspirator 2, and others conspired during the COVID-19 pandemic to defraud and commit several offenses against the US after NIH terminated Co-Conspirator 1’s grant. NIH terminated the grant, Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence (bat coronavirus grant), based on allegations that COVID-19 emerged from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in Wuhan, China. NIAID awarded the grant to Company #1 and Co-Conspirator 1, who made a subaward to the WIV. Following the termination, Morens and Co-Conspirator 2 pledged to help Co-Conspirator 1 restore the termination of the bat coronavirus grant and counter the narrative that COVID-19 leaked from a lab. In anticipation that their communications would be requested through a FOIA Request, Morens, Co-Conspirator 1, and Co-Conspirator 2 agreed in writing to intentionally hide from public view their communications by corresponding using Morens’s personal Gmail account, rather than his official NIH email account. The conspirators used Morens’s personal Gmail account to exchange non-public NIH information; correspond about their efforts to influence NIH to fund Company #1; exchange edits to drafts of letters addressed to NIH leadership for Company #1 and Co-Conspirator 1; and “back-channel” information to Senior NIAID Official 1. Each of these matters fell within Morens’s role as senior advisor and constituted federal records that needed to be created, maintained, and exchanged on government systems. Additionally, Morens and Co-Conspirator 1 conspired to pay illegal gratuities. The indictment states that Co-Coconspirator 1 gifted Morens wine for his “behind-the-scenes shenanigans,” and arranged for its delivery to Morens’s residence in Maryland.  Morens then allegedly identified an official act that he could perform to “deserve” the gift, which was a scientific commentary in a prominent medical journal advocating that COVID-19 had natural origins. Co-Conspirator 1 suggested he would provide Morens with additional things of value, including meals at Michelin-starred restaurants in Paris, New York, and Washington, D.C. justice.gov/opa/pr/former-…

I'm sad to learn that J. Craig Venter, a key figure in modern genomics and an inveterate troublemaker, passed away. Craig was very important to the study of human genetics and the biotechnology industry. He also had an impact on my career. The pitch that led @michaelnoer to hire me at Forbes in 2000 was about Venter's company, Celera Genomics, and its work on the mouse genome. Seventeen years, later, Michael edited a cover story I wrote about Venter for Forbes.

"Morens allegedly suggested that he could author a paper in a prominent medical journal advocating that COVID-19 had natural origins. That paper...has Morens listed as the leading author. Keusch was a co-author...as was Jeffery Taubenberger, who currently serves...as the acting Director of NIAID. Taubenberger is also known for reviving the 1918 Spanish Flu from a dead body and being an avid supporter of gain-of-function research."

We've just added another 3,500+ pages of David Morens emails to our online archives @USRightToKnow Here's a sample from our latest batch: the alleged FOIA-evading "backchannel" to Tony Fauci, in emails between Morens & "Co-Conspirator 1" Peter Daszak, per Tuesday's indictment.

🚨One of the top two alleged cyber criminals in the world for China: Arrested Your #FBI is defending the homeland from bad actors who target American infrastructure, bringing them to justice no matter where they try to hide. Read more: fbi.gov/contact-us/fie…

Following a joint investigation with HHS-OIG and the FBI, a NIH employee is facing indictment for his role in a scheme to evade Freedom of Information Act requests in connection with COVID-19 research grants. Read more: direc.to/fVuC

See a video tour of the first Autonomous Lab built for the Genesis Mission by @Ginkgo at @PNNLab !🇺🇸🤖 US keeping lead in science needs scientists driving AI+robots instead of toiling at the lab bench!

"I didn't cc Jeff Taubenberger because you've all been using his NIH address which would be subject to Congressional requests and to FoIA" Peter Daszak August 1, 2022

Chinese national indicted in COVID-era hacking scheme, arrested in Italy, extradited to Texas justthenews.com/nation/states/…

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I came back to the United States, hearing about a very sad news: Craig Venter passed away today. He is a pioneer, successfully sequenced the first Human genome, and tried to create Synthetic Cells. We lost a giant in Science. RIP. @JCVenterInst

Perhaps he did know all along. As the genome dropped, Baric wrote Daszak: ‘Looks like we found our highly variable SARS-like CoV!’ Daszak replied, ‘My thoughts exactly.’ It’s almost as if Baric immediately recognized SARS‑2 as the very pandemic virus he, WIV, and EcoHealth had postulated a couple of years earlier, but he had zero intention of toppling the house of cards himself. Better to sit back and wait for Uncle Sam to do it.

Senior advisor to Anthony Fauci finally charged for concealing federal records following a criminal referral from former House COVID Subcommittee Chairman Brad Wenstrup. “I can either send stuff to Tony on his private Gmail [sic], or hand it to him at work or at his house,” Morens wrote in one April 21, 2021, email. “He is too smart to let colleagues send him stuff that could cause trouble.”

One question Ralph Baric has never answered satisfactorily is this: Why did he never inform pandemic leaders that his lab and Wuhan bat scientist Shi Zhengli had submitted a proposal to genetically engineer a coronavirus with a furin cleavage site two years before a pandemic caused by a coronavirus with a furin cleavage site erupted in Wuhan, China? Adding a furin cleavage site is a gain-of-function experiment and may be one of the reasons COVID-19 became able to infect humans! Baric’s withholding of this knowledge prevented scientists from realizing early on that COVID-19 was not a typical animal virus that often infects humans poorly, but was likely a coronavirus purposefully engineered to infect humans. Withholding knowledge of these proposed experiments allowed Fauci et al. to cover up his approval of NIH funding for gain-of-function experiments in Wuhan and to deceptively shift blame to the “wet market.” The cover-up would have been less successful had Ralph Baric revealed that scientists in Wuhan were seeking funding for these gain-of-function experiments. realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2026/…

It’s hard to make sense of recent statements by world leaders - claims that Ukraine started the war, or must give up its territories - especially when those on the front lines ask: what was all this about? Thank you, King Charles, for making it very clear. Thank you.

EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak may not have been effective at getting intel from his Wuhan partners about Covid's origin but he was skilled at "positive outreach to Democrats" to head off concerns about a lab leak origin of Covid and other high risk research.

@LawrenceGostin False

It is time to let go of the COVID origins debate. It does not make the US or the world safer or better prepared.

David Morens’ indictment shows why, under Trump, it’s hard to disentangle political motives from actions in service of justice. He was grossly unethical. But this smacks of selective political prosecution, full of conspiracy theories and grievances about Covid origins.

I disagree. Finding Covid's origin is important for public trust. If we keep letting go of outbreaks of ambiguous origin, the public will rightly distrust scientists and gov. This will guarantee more challenges to scientific funding & reduced resilience in public health crises.

The continued attacks on NATO allies are counterproductive. The comments hurt Americans. I commanded the huge Ramstein AB in Germany. The two big airfields in Germany give us great access in three continents. We are shooting ourselves in our own feet.

So far all of the LLMs and LLM-based platforms I've tested have readily given me dual use information on pathogens and in one case even enthusiastically encouraged a gain-of-function experiment that could cause a pandemic worse than Covid-19.