NIH official to 'retire' after being ID'd as author of anti-Fauci posts on right-wing blog

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2. Did he write for RedState while on the government clock?

It is unclear if Crews was blogging while on the clock for his government agency. Daily Beast reporter Lachlan Markay wrote that he was able to confirm Crews' identity by going through "public records, social media postings, and internal records from the National Institutes of Health, NIAID's parent agency."

The Daily Beast obtained internal emails from the parent agency showing that Crews shared internal information on COVID-19 with other RedState writers, even prefacing a memo with "from office email."

The news outlet also found articles from Crews' pseudonym on RedState that criticized Fauci during the Ebola outbreak.

Crews' contributions to the site go back to 2004. Just in 2020, he posted more than 400 pieces on RedState, sometimes up to five in a single day, according to the Daily Beast.