My question on the labs was why they didnt just destroy all the material they were holding. That was the charter they had frim the disarmament agreements. The failure to do so goes back to the Clinton administration, perpetuated over 30 years.
This is worth a serious investigation and explanations. And probably several bureaucratic careers.
Depends on the research: there are very good reasons to have facilities capable of culturing and researching anthrax and plague because those are endemic in Eurasia.