FOIA: NIH REDACTS EMAILS FROM AGENCY OFFICIALS WHO STAND TO MAKE $MILLIONS FROM MODERNA JAB
Harold Saive
CAN previously reported that
some government officials stand to earn millions from the
sale of mRNA-1273, the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Dr.
Anthony Fauci’s agency, the National Institute of Allergy
and Infectious Disease (NIAID), and Moderna.
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FOIA: NIH REDACTS EMAILS FROM AGENCY OFFICIALS WHO
STAND TO MAKE $MILLIONS FROM MODERNA JAB
https://www.icandecide.org/ican_press/ican-receives-emails-from-niaid-official-who-stands-to-profit-from-covid-19-vaccines/
ICAN previously reported that some government officials stand to
earn millions from the sale of mRNA-1273, the COVID-19 vaccine
developed by Dr. Anthony Fauci’s agency, the National Institute
of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID), and Moderna.
Given the clear conflict between these officials’ personal
interest in making money and their duty to ensure vaccines are
safe, ICAN, through its attorneys, submitted a number of Freedom
of Information Act (FOIA) requests to the National Institutes of
Health (NIH), NIAID’s parent agency. One of those requests was
for the Deputy Director of NIAID’s Vaccine Research Center,
Barney Graham’s, emails regarding COVID-19. When NIH failed to
respond to those requests, ICAN sued the agency in federal
court. In response to that lawsuit, NIH agreed to produce
responsive documents on a rolling basis.
ICAN recently received three productions of Barney Graham’s
emails. NIH redacted many of these documents including
exchanges involved Barney Graham and Kizzmekia Corbett, both of
whom are NIH officials that stand to earn millions from the
Moderna vaccine. The excuse? NIH claims they “contain staff
advice, opinion, and recommendations…” and that other redacted
documents contain “trade secrets and commercial or financial
information that is privileged and confidential.”
When taxpayer money is being used to develop this vaccine,
nothing should be a secret from the public. Certainly not
communications between public officials that stand to personally
earn millions of dollars from the sale of this vaccine and are
using taxpayer money to develop the vaccine!
ICAN does not believe the same government officials who stand to
profit from the vaccine should be able to hide their “advice,
opinion and recommendations” regarding same or to argue that
their emails are “confidential.” We will challenge the agency’s
inappropriate redactions to make sure that these government
officials are transparent even if it hurts their pocketbooks.
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