If you're going to blame management, keep going higher: What about all the higher tiers of management in the White house who were busy violating the Presidential Records Act and FOIA willy-nilly?
The "records" in this case are likely the researchers saying: "WTF is happening, my work is canceled, and it seems like the politicians are starting to talk about us as scapegoats to be metaphorically lynched, let's talk about this away from our government work."
As opposed to, say, giant binders labeled Proof The Conspiracy Is Real on the front.
> Months after the pandemic started in early 2020, President Donald Trump ordered NIAID to cancel the grant [...which] led Daszak to seek advice from Morens and also Keusch, who previously had headed a different institute at the National Institutes of Health before moving to Boston University. They agreed to communicate with Morens via a Gmail account rather than his federal email to avoid their exchanges potentially becoming public through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.
> "When you're a government official you swear an oath, you're working for a federal agency, you're just held to a higher standard," said Robert Fisher. (a Boston attorney who is not involved in the Morens case )
Well that has to be the joke of the year.
One government official has made 30,573 false or misleading claims from 2016 to 2020, [0] and an uncounted large number from January 2025 to date. [1]
Seems like a completely bullshit politically motivated hitjob on this guy for making a common procedural error (using a personal email address for something official).
If the actual contents of his email were damning, they'd be publishing them all over the place.
> He was indicted in April for allegedly trying to hide email exchanges about that research by using his personal email instead of his government email.
I am so glad this administration is going after everyone who does work comms using personal accounts.
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[ 0.25 ms ] story [ 11.4 ms ] threadAs opposed to, say, giant binders labeled Proof The Conspiracy Is Real on the front.
> Months after the pandemic started in early 2020, President Donald Trump ordered NIAID to cancel the grant [...which] led Daszak to seek advice from Morens and also Keusch, who previously had headed a different institute at the National Institutes of Health before moving to Boston University. They agreed to communicate with Morens via a Gmail account rather than his federal email to avoid their exchanges potentially becoming public through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.
-- https://www.science.org/content/article/former-fauci-adviser...
Well that has to be the joke of the year.
One government official has made 30,573 false or misleading claims from 2016 to 2020, [0] and an uncounted large number from January 2025 to date. [1]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_or_misleading_statements...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_or_misleading_statements...
If the actual contents of his email were damning, they'd be publishing them all over the place.
I am so glad this administration is going after everyone who does work comms using personal accounts.