So, then, if the French had a bilogical lab in the United States, we could remove the US from complicity of knowledge... Things aren't exactly the same over there.
Besides, we seem to have criminals over here who are not complicit with our government. A few of them, anyway.
You can't necessarily connect those dots.
There's a difference, I'd say, between criminals concocting methedrine in an illegal hidden lab (which our gov't DOES prosecute) and a military group creating and conducting chemical warfare weapons and plans. This gov't would shut that down in a heartbeat.
Any real gov't cannot claim ignorance of such activity within its own borders for very long.