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Ex-State Dept COVID investigator calls newly-unredacted Fauci
communications 'an extensive cover-up'
'The Story' delved into new Fauci documents released unredacted by a
House committee
By Charles Creitz | Fox News

New questions raised about Fauci's COVID response
Former State Dept. COVID investigator David Asher responds on 'The Story.'

A newly-unredacted missive from Dr. Anthony Fauci suggesting the
COVID-19 pandemic may have been grounded in gain-of-function research is
proof positive of an extensive "cover-up," according to a former State
Department pandemic investigator.

On Friday, Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum's team on "The Story" delved
deeper into messaging from Fauci at the suggestion of a former top COVID
policy official in the Trump administration, after the House Select
Committee on the Coronavirus Pandemic released more unredacted documents
this week.

The letter in question had been nearly completely redacted, save for
about the first line. Fauci wrote to "folks" that the viral sequence
found in the coronavirus strain contained "mutations in the virus that
would have been most unusual to have evolved naturally in bats," adding
there had been "suspicion that this mutation was intentionally inserted…"

According to new parts of the letter read on "The Story" by MacCallum,
Fauci went on to say that upon further "considerable discussion, some of
the scientists felt more strongly about this possibility. Two others
felt differently, but they felt it was entirely conceivable that it
could have evolved naturally with these mutations."

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Anthony Fauci
Dr. Anthony Fauci, former National Institutes of Allergy & Infectious
Disease director (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Dr. David Asher, a former State Department investigator, bluntly said on
"The Story" that "it's a cover up."

Asher said the letter was just one example from a tranche of
correspondence and comments the House committee, led by Reps. Brad
Wenstrup, R-Ohio and Raul Ruiz, D-Calif., uncovered.

"They've gotten through all the private communications of all of the
scientists orchestrated by Fauci to draft this proximal origins paper
that concluded that beyond a reasonable doubt, this thing came from
nature," Asher said.

"I can only imagine what's going to come out in the coming weeks as more
of these internal communications are uncovered and we go and double back
with some of these scientists that testified under oath that they had
never really taken the zoonotic story behind covered as a primary thesis."

Asher was not the first to recently accuse Fauci of covering up facts
behind the true origins of COVID-19, as a top Republican and medical
doctor of ophthalmology himself frequently sparred with the immunologist
on the subject:

In March, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said Fauci didn't want any attention
drawn to the lab-leak theory because his office had for years supported
and allegedly funded gain-of-function research with U.S. taxpayer funds.

PAUL: FAUCI INTIMIDATES SCIENTISTS FROM CONTRADICTING HIM

Texts could reveal whether Fauci tried to curb ‘lab leak’ theoryVideo
"He's even quoted as saying in 2012, if a pandemic should occur, if a
scientist should be bitten by an animal and the virus gets out of the
lab, it would be worth the knowledge," Paul said at the time.

At the time Paul also cited emails he had viewed between Fauci and his
fellow now-retired health bureaucrat, then-NIH Director Francis Collins,
that the situation would not be good for China or for science.

"[They] mean[t] it wouldn't be good for the business of science, for the
money that changes hands," Paul said.

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In a 2021 Senate hearing where Paul sparred with Fauci about his or the
NIAID's role in gain-of-function research and allegedly "obscur[ing]
responsibility for four million people dying around them from a
pandemic," Fauci declared Paul "officially, do[es] not know what [he] is
talking about" and denied any such allegations.

"You are implying that what we did was responsible for the deaths of
individuals [and] I totally resent that," Fauci told Paul at the time.
"If there is any lying here, senator it is you."

Fauci, who recently retired, had been a fixture at the NIH since 1968,
and was appointed head of NIAID by former President Ronald Reagan in 1984.

Charles Creitz is a reporter for Fox News Digital.

He joined Fox News in 2013 as a writer and production assistant.

Charles covers media, politics and culture for Fox News Digital.

Charles is a Pennsylvania native and graduated from Temple University
with a B.A. in Broadcast Journalism. Story tips can be sent to
charles.creitz@fox.com.

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notwithoutreason967
14 July, 2023

The short-term purpose for the over-the-top covid panic was to get rid
of Trump. The long-term purpose was to justify the massive expansion of
mail-in voting, notorious for it's vulnerability to vote harvesting and
outright fraud.

It all worked as well as the perps could have hoped. It is doubtful ...

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studlymeganuts2
14 July, 2023

It also doesn’t help when key battleground states illegally suspended
all their election and voter integrity laws as well. All mail in ballots
were counted regardless of whether the ballots were legitimate or not.

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Crabsworth24
14 July, 2023

I believe that is the final nail in the coffin of this country, and yet
democrats continue to manipulate the voting laws and block any attempts
to prevent the fraud. Corruption.

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Zappatite
14 July, 2023

This would be a huge story however elites are never held accountable.
Especially the DC elites. The elites don't even have to answer
questions. I wonder how long the American middle class is going to
continue to stand for the corruption in the federal government. Things
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Deane
14 July, 2023

Could not agree more. If true it goes to prove that the working class
gets hammered but the career Washington bureaucracy gets a free pass
every time!

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DesotoSoda
14 July, 2023

What’s worse is it’s plain as day what they were doing. There are a
number of public published papers from that operation describing the
work they were doing. They were trying to make a super virus based off
SARS that would allow them to make a super RNA treatment (they now call
a “vaccine”) that w...

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badtothebone
14 July, 2023

I wonder why in the hearings this week, Counsel and the Committee Chair,
kept asking the scientist if they had hidden emails and text messages.
They told the committee under oath, that they had concluded that beyond
a reasonable doubt, this thing came from nature based on scientific
research. Hopef...

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1911¤trp
14 July, 2023

THERE IS NOTHING in these documents that is a matter of National
Security. Only things that are of National Embarrassment. STOP redacting
everything. The People have a right to know the truth. Show us
everything. It should not take this long to provide The People with the
facts that we've had for Y...

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