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“the lab” didn’t manipulate the data, someone or a group of someones manipulated the data. It’s in the public interest to know the name of that person (or people). Once those people are identified, then congress can get to the business of finding out how or why it was manipulated. Incompetence is as likely as malice, but it’s bad in both cases.
It’s also in the public interest to know if any of that raw data is recoverable. Assuming the data being processed was really worth whatever money we spent on it, if the unadulterated data is still available, the government could recoup some of its losses for the public by reprocessing it correctly.