Millions Of Dollars In Equipment At CDC Missing [View All]

[Kadie]

Aug 6, 2007 6:57 pm US/Pacific

Millions Of Dollars In Equipment At CDC Missing

(CBS News) WASHINGTON The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may be expert at tracking disease. But the agency leaves something to be desired when it comes to tracking big-ticket items paid for with your tax dollars.

CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson exclusively obtained a 90-page list of thousands of pieces of scientific equipment and property — all bought by taxpayers, and all of it missing in action.

The list includes 35 centrifuges, each costing up to $41,800; five DNA sequencers and gene analyzers costing up to $111,000 apiece; and a $200,000 spectrometer used for analyzing samples. Nobody knows where they are.

Also unaccounted for are high-end microscopes, copiers, dozens of Land Cruisers and 4x4's, a John Deere tractor and backhoe, and 5,000 computers.

"Where did they go? How do we find them? Who's in charge over there?" asks Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore.

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