Lies and scandal: How two rogue scientists at a secret lab triggered a national security calamity

A high-security lab. Ebola. A mysterious package. The Chinese military. The release earlier this week of hundreds of documents related to the dismissal of two scientists — Dr. Xiangguo Qiu and her husband Keding Cheng — has pulled back the curtain on an explosive national security probe at the Winnipeg-based National Microbiology Lab, part of the Canadian Science Centre for Human and Animal Health (CSCHAH). The investigation — and the fight to make information about the investigation public — took years. How it started According to Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) documents, the agency’s National Security Management Division was…