A federal indictment, a whistleblower, and five years of unanswered questions about COVID-19's origins are converging on Capitol Hill.
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has scheduled a hearing for May 13 to examine whistleblower testimony on COVID, and the timing is directly tied to one of the most consequential prosecutions to emerge from the pandemic era. What senators hear in that room could reshape the political and legal landscape around how the U.S. government handled, and allegedly concealed, information about coronavirus research.
The clearest catalyst for the Senate COVID hearing whistleblower session is the federal indictment of Dr. David Morens, a former senior adviser to Dr. Anthony Fauci at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Filed on April 16 and unsealed April 28, the indictment charges Morens with three felony counts: conspiracy against the United States, and deliberate concealment, destruction, alteration, or falsification of federal records.
According to the Department of Justice, Morens allegedly used a personal Gmail account to hide official communications about federally funded research into bat coronaviruses, as part of a scheme to evade Freedom of Information Act requests. The indictment further alleges the conduct occurred after NIH terminated a grant to a co-conspirator widely reported to be EcoHealth Alliance, the organization whose work at...
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