Report: U.S. disregarded experts over biolab site

Monday, August 11, 2008

WASHINGTON -- The Homeland Security Department swept aside evaluations of government experts and named Mississippi -- home to powerful U.S. lawmakers with sway over the agency -- as a top location for a new $451 million national laboratory to study some of the world's most virulent biological threats, according to internal documents obtained by The Associated Press.

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