After a long #FOIA fight, I just received a bunch of new unredacted emails detailing the Feb 1 2020 teleconference between Dr. Fauci and virologists discussing SARS-Cov-2: documentcloud.org/documents/2331…
Jimmy Tobias
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Investigative reporter. FOIA fan, formerly @forestservice. Board of directors @sejorg. Email: [email protected] Signal: jtoby.06
- Breaking: In a 2021 exchange with leading scientists about Covid origins, a long-time NIH adviser to Dr. Fauci admitted to using a personal email address in an apparent effort to evade FOIA. He also expressed his intent to delete emails. My latest:
- Because I sued them over the redactions
- Replying to @JamesCTobiasFinally, a second set of documents, mostly emails between Dr. Fauci and Kristian Andersen, which have finally been unredacted in full after months of #FOIA litigation: documentcloud.org/documents/2331…
- Replying to @JamesCTobiasI am reviewing the documents now, but some of this material was previously redacted and help sheds light on early NIH discussions re: origins of COVID-19:
- New NIH FOIA release, with emails concerning Dr. Fauci, Ralph Baric, etc: documentcloud.org/documents/2529…
- Replying to @sarahcbedford and @JasonLeopoldThis email is also noteworthy:
- Replying to @JamesCTobias
- Unredacted NIH records detail early efforts to rule out lab origin of Covid — my latest for @theintercept and @thenation. It took more than a year of #FOIA litigation to obtain the documents featured in this story:
- A few FOIA documents that I received from USGS today re: DEFUSE, etc: documentcloud.org/documents/2452…
- 74 pages of heavily-redacted Top Secret documents concerning Covid origins that I received from the Energy Department this morning, obtained via FOIA lawsuit:

















