NIH censorship of critics unconstitutional, appeals court says, HHS sued for COVID coverup records

 Animal experimentation is at the heart of First Amendment and Freedom of Information Act litigation against the feds, with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals recently defeating NIH in court and Judicial Watch suing the Department of Health and Human Services for stonewalling its requests for communications about an alleged COVID-19 coverup.

Like the undercover conservative sting organization, known for exposing a Pfizer executive discussing its plans to "Mutate" COVID to protect its "Cash cow," the animal rights groups go undercover to document and expose cruelty and crimes against animals, they said.

Last week WCW published an Oct. 25, 2021 radio interview in which the director of the Tunisian lab that performed the puppy experiments said they were funded by NIH "Throughout [sic] the institute Dr. Fauci is managing." The group obtained the recording through a FOIA lawsuit against the State Department because the interview was "Circulated that day among U.S. Embassy staff in Tunisia, including the U.S. Ambassador," WCW said Monday.

NIH-suppressed words - some misspelled or in Spanish - included variations of "PETA," "Torment" and "Torture," common research animals including chimps and cats, the names of two monkey-experiment researchers, anti-testing hashtags and even "Four emojis." NIH hid a comment by one of the animal-rights activists who sued as an individual, Madeline Krasno, on its Instagram post depicting a COVID-infected cell.

The request sought communications from Fauci and senior scientific adviser David Morens "Soliciting help, advice, or assistance" from NIAID or NIH's FOIA office "To circumvent, avoid, or otherwise not respond" to lawful FOIA requests.

Previous disclosures showed Morens told scientists in the early days of the pandemic, when NIAID faced heavy scrutiny for funding the Wuhan Institute of Virology's bat research and potentially facilitating a possible leak of the novel coronavirus, that he intentionally evaded FOIA with help from NIAID's "Foia lady," later identified as Margaret Moore.

Judicial Watch named Moore and fellow FOIA office employees Robin Schofield and Marianne Manheim as employees from whom Fauci and Morens might have sought help, adding NIH's Karen Lampe in a request for communications among FOIA staff on withholding FOIA requests regarding WIV and the EcoHealth Alliance, which passed through U.S. taxpayer funding. 

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