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| Dr Anthony Fauci is caught in new email storm linked to controversial beagle experiments |
| 2024-07-30 |
| [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Dr. Anthony Fauci is being accused of lying to Congress last month when he said he never used private email to conduct official business. Fauci, 83, told a journalist in 2021 that he would reach out to them through his private email as he faced backlash over research being done on beagle puppies by his National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID). The project saw innocent hound dogs tormented and killed in a lab in Tunisia to learn more about a parasitic disease, something the NIAID initially denied funding before Fauci confirmed this year that was a fib. It also saw the hashtag #ArrestFauci trend on the site formerly known as Twitter, as he also faced backlash over his handling of the pandemic. The now-retired expert faced a grilling about this in June as well. The White Coat Waste Project, who years ago revealed how NIAID spent $1.86million in taxpayer funds on the tests, has now uncovered correspondence where the doctor told a reporter he would message him personally as they spoke briefly about the then budding scandal. Back in June, the former head of the NIAID told lawmakers he never used a personal email to discuss work - a stance that, while now coming into question, he continues to maintain. 'I will send you an e-mail via my gmail account,' Fauci wrote in the email dated October 29, 2021, and sent to Washington Post reporter Yasmeen Abutaleb. Shortly before, the journalist who had been the national health policy reporter for the paper at the time, sent a message that appeared to air pity toward the doc about the series of 'crazy articles' that had surfaced surrounding the beagle experiments. Earlier emails showed how Fauci shared an article from the fact check website Snopes, in which journalists seemingly sought to cast doubt on his connection to the experiments. The article further suggested Fauci, who retired in August 2022, did not sign off on the taxpayer-funded experiments, which, aside from spawning widespread outrage, warranted a scathing rebuke from members of Congress. The Snopes article called them 'rumors' designed to 'disparage' the then-NIAID director, and Fauci in turn wrote to the journalist, 'As per our discussion, more of the same.' The latter appeared to dismiss legitimate questions about the experiments where dogs were left for sand flies to be eaten alive for research purposes as outlandish. Some three years later, he would concede to a House subcommittee that he 'signed off' on grants that funded the tests - an admission offered before several lawmakers on June 3. The inconsistency isn't the first from the lifelong doctor, and apparently isn't the last either, if the FOIA records obtained by the White Coat Waste Project and The New York Post are to be taken seriously. As mentioned, the exchange - occurring less than a year before Fauci's retirement and Abutaleb's seemingly simultaneously ascension to Post White House reporter - suggested the doctor sent an email to the woman from his personal account. In a fact-check last month surrounding the now confirmed Beagle experiment, the Washington Post found the government-sanctioned was erased from a grant database weeks after members of the press began inquiring about it in 2021. 'Beaglegate' was thus born, a mostly online movement that questioned Fauci and the government's involvement that culminated with White Coat Waste Project in 2022 releasing internal NIAID documents that included the full grant proposal. Months before, Fauci had asked NIAID staff for details of the grant - after which one of the agency’s employees pressured the journal that published the study to remove its affiliation, according to internal NIAID documents obtained by White Coat Waste. Representatives for the NIAID would then argue it funded a separate but similar study involving sand flies, before Fauci slammed reports on the experiments as 'lunacy' from the 'far-right' in his recent memoir. However, days before the book published, he suddenly changed his tune - telling Congress he did, in fact, sign off on the Tunisia experiments - 'because they were approved by a peer review', he said in his June 3 testimony. The committee had already obtained a trove of emails showing one of his top aides, Dr. David Morens, using a private email account to evade FOIA requests while bragging about deleting 'smoking guns.' Fauci’s top adviser at NIAID from 1998 to 2022, Morens is now the subject of an internal NIH investigation for alleged FOIA evasions and the deletion of federal records. Correspondence between EcoHealth Alliance President Dr. Peter Daszak and Fauci was also uncovered, after the nonprofit received more than half a million in funding from NIH to help conduct gain-of-function experiments at the Wuhan Institute of Virology beginning in 2014. Related: Anthony Fauci 07/22/2024 BREAKING: House Oversight Bipartisan Committee Calls for Cheatle's Resignation Anthony Fauci 07/23/2024 So Who Visited Crooks and works Near the FBI Office ? Anthony Fauci 07/22/2024 How does a 20 year old nerdy kid have 3 encrypted overseas bank accounts? |
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