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5 stories tagged "foia"

Investigations

Fauci's Top Adviser Admitted to Hiding COVID Emails and Taking Wine for a Natural-Origins Commentary

David Morens pleaded guilty to conspiring to run NIH business through Gmail to dodge FOIA, and to taking wine as an illegal gratuity tied to a commentary declaring COVID had natural origins. Fauci was not charged.

Investigations

Two Words Open Fauci's Pandemic Diary: 'GAME ON!!!'

Anthony Fauci's private diary greets the pandemic with 'GAME ON!!!' and, in the same January 2020 entry, records that the first infection traced to early December and that the Wuhan market was 'the amplifier,' not the source.

Investigations

RFK Jr. Promised Radical Transparency. His HHS Gutted the Staff Who Release FDA Inspection Reports and CDC Outbreak Data.

The FDA, CDC, and NIH fielded more than 15,000 records requests in 2024. In April 2025 HHS fired the staff who answer them, rehired some FDA workers a month later under legal pressure, and by August 2026 the federal records backlog had only grown.

Investigations

The Crisis Was Unexpected. The Org Chart Wasn't.

Internal NIH correspondence and the public record both point to a pandemic-response architecture, and the people to run it, assembled years before Covid arrived.

Investigations

Aaron Siri Wrote a Book Made of Court Filings

A new book by attorney Aaron Siri assembles a decade of FOIA wins, court filings, and depositions into one record of what the federal vaccine docket does and does not say.