Emails uncovered by House Republicans from the senior adviser to former National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci may implicate him in knowledge of the destruction of government documents related to the origins of COVID-19.

The private Gmail communications from David Morens, who worked under Fauci since 1998, have become a flashpoint in the investigation from the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic into the National Institutes of Health’s hand in the early days of the public health crisis.