A Fauci adviser deleted emails. Congress demanded to know why.
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David Morens had a very bad day.
At the peak of the coronavirus pandemic, the longtime National Institutes of Health official encouraged colleagues to evade federal records requirements, claiming that shifting sensitive covid conversations to personal email and deleting messages would protect his high-profile former boss Anthony S. Fauci and others from unwanted scrutiny.
It was spectacularly bad — and wrong — advice. And it brought the wrath of Congress down on Morens yesterday.
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