A Government Accountability Office draft report obtained by the Washington Post suggests that the Department of Homeland Security underestimated the chance of a release of major contamination from a research lab for highly infectious pathogens in tornado-prone Manhattan,Kansas. To date,that sort of research has been confined to remote islands.
Despite efforts to delay or postpone a hearing on the matter by DHS,the House Energy and Commerce Committee?s oversight and investigations subcommittee plans to hold a hearing Thursday on the risk analysis,according to two sources cited by the Post. Had the GAO not reported such findings,the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF),was expected to win construction funding.
Critics site active lobbying by state officials for the lab’s location in Kansas.
Washington Post (via @jeffharrison)