Republicans are examining evidence that the National Institutes of Health avoided compliance with the Freedom of Information Act during the COVID-19 pandemic.
, used his personal email address to avoid FOIA and received assistance from the agency’s “foia lady” to obfuscate public records requests.
In an email chain between Morens and former NIH employee Gerald Keusch in February 2021, Morens referenced the so-called “foia lady” instructing him how to delete emails from NIH records. Fauci’s top adviser also told the subcommittee last week that he did not realize emails from his government account constituted federal records.
“After an agency receives a FOIA request, it is common to employ key word search terms to identify and subsequently produce responsive documents to the requester,” Wenstrup wrote to Bertagnolli. “However, it can be undermined by government employees that strategically use language to avoid key word searches.
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