She Told Fauci Staffers How To Make Emails Disappear – Now She Faces A Massive Lawsuit

A legal watchdog group is going to court seeking the emails of a government employee who allegedly told staffers of Dr. Anthony Fauci “how to make emails disappear” to skirt federal disclosure laws.

The non-profit public interest law firm Judicial Watch announced in a statement it “filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit for all email communications between National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) FOIA Officer Margaret Moore and top NIAID officials, including former Director Dr. Anthony Fauci.”

“Key decisions were made behind closed doors at Dr. Fauci’s agency during the pandemic,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “The American people have a right to know what was hidden from them.”

Judicial Watch reports “Moore is the ‘FOIA Lady’ who allegedly taught David Morens, pandemic-era NIAID senior advisor to Fauci, ‘how to make emails disappear after I am foia’d’ to cloak top NIAID officials’ communications from ever seeing the light of day.”

Judicial Watch states “the lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after the National Institutes of Health (NIH) failed to respond to a June 4, 2024, FOIA request for all email communications between Moore (the ‘FOIA Lady’) and any of the following officials:”

NIAID Director Anthony Fauci

NIAID Senior Advisor David Morens

NIH Bioethics Official Christine Grady

NIAID Principal Deputy Director Hugh Auchincloss, M.D.

NIAID Deputy Director H. Richard Lane

EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak

“In June 2023, the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, announced its investigation of “a potential violation of federal record keeping laws” at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) by Morens. The subcommittee chair wrote: ‘In one e-mail you write that you ‘always try to communicate over gmail because my NIH email is FOIA’d constantly.’ You continue, ‘[d]on’t worry, just send to any of my addresses and I will delete anything I don’t want to see in the New York Times,’” Judicial Watch reports.

Judicial Watch states:

As part of the expanding investigation into NIH records practices, congressional investigators began examining the role of FOIA processing officials in handling or advising on records requests involving senior agency personnel.

Moore came to congressional attention in 2024 during the subcommittee’s investigation into NIH communications practices and alleged efforts to avoid federal records disclosure requirements. In September 2024, the subcommittee sent a letter and subpoena to Moore regarding Morens’ communications. Her attorney informed Congress that she intended to invoke the Fifth Amendment.

In April 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that Morens was indicted for allegedly helping to conceal and destroy federal records, evading FOIA requests, and using personal email to hide Covid-related communications during the pandemic. The indictment references a March 2021 Judicial Watch FOIA lawsuit that uncovered many NIH communications, contracts and agreements with the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China.

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