This is extremely damning. NIAID and NIH directors were exchanging emails in the first days of the pandemic with experts pointing out aspects of SARS-CoV-2 that

This is extremely damning. NIAID and NIH directors were exchanging emails in the first days of the pandemic with experts pointing out aspects of SARS-CoV-2 that struck them as tending towards a lab leak rather than natural origin. This would be very bad for NIAID and NIH because they were somewhere between one and a couple steps removed from directly knowingly funding the research creating human pandemic SARS viruses in a BSL-2 lab in Wuhan, China. They then quickly organized a meeting to get everyone on the same page that it was not a lab leak and spent a year telling the public anyone suggesting it might have been a lab leak - based on the very same points they themselves had instantly noticed - was a crazy conspiracy theorist and worse. Then when responding to FOIA requests they redacted the parts of their emails proving what shameless liars they've been. We are only reading these now because congressional staffers were allowed an in camera review and "to the best of their ability, hand transcribed the contents of the emails". These actually aren't unredacted documents but hand transcriptions. How is this such an inconsequential story that it's basically only being covered by an anonymous analyst on Substack?