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...which will cover as much acreage as five Wal-Mart stores. On the short list of states in contention to host the NBAF is Mississippi, which has zero prior experience with such high-risk research. "While some expansion [of labs] may be justified," says Rhodes, "unwarranted expansion without adequate oversight is proliferation, not expansion...
...Lack of oversight means lack of policing, which often leads to underreporting of potentially fatal accidents. Labs are required by law to report mishaps with select agents immediately to the CDC, but that doesn't always happen. Case in point: Last year, a bio-lab worker at Texas A&M University became infected with the deadly brucellosis virus. The university did not report the case and may never have admitted it if an industry gadfly, Edward Hammond of the Sunshine Project, had not persuaded a local district attorney to strong-arm the university into giving up its internal records...
...Prince on the X, sitting in Washington, taking fire from a hostile House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. During the Bush Administration's first six years, the Republican Congress provided little oversight and less reform. Meanwhile, federal spending on private contractors nearly doubled, with military contractors being the biggest winners. The U.S. now has more private contractors than troops in Iraq. Blackwater's federal workload has grown from $204,000 to nearly $600 million since 2000. You could call it Halliburton with guns, except Halliburton has some guns...
...security company finds itself at the center of a growing debate over the use of private contractors in Iraq. Blackwater USA Chairman Prince is scheduled on Tuesday to make his first-ever appearance before Congress, along with three other witnesses who will line up before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform...
...Most important, from the standpoint of the company's many critics, Prince will declare that "Blackwater believes that more can and should be done to increase accountability, oversight and transparency," and that he looks forward to working with both Congress and the Administration to achieve that. He also points out, again citing U.S. government data, that Blackwater has conducted 1,873 security details in 2007, with only 56 incidents during which weapons were discharged - less than...