Sunday’s Associated Press report that the process for narrowing down sites for the National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility was flawed certainly lends more power to opponents of locating the federal research facility in Athens.

From reading the story, it sounds like a Bush political appointee with the U.S Department of Homeland Security and certain members of Congress have bent the rules and acted capriciously in compiling the short list of possible NBAF sites. The First Dolt’s political flunky elevated a Mississippi community that scored a lower overall evaluation than nine other sites, including a second one in Athens.

It shouldn’t be hard to understand why some of the folks opposed to putting NBAF in Athens harbor a mistrust of the Bush administration and federal government bureaucracy.