Just for lulz. The main expert they brought with them, Peter Daszak, is the main dude who was responsible for funneling NIH money to the lab. This was like the time they let Dick Cheney decide if Halliburton was getting special contract treatment. What a joke that nyt would even write this trash as a news story and not an expose.
That wouldn't be productive. They're likely extremely talented scientists that got to where they are by being the best candidates for the circumstances. Since they didn't do anything publicly wrong you can't publicly punish them which means they're deeper into the secret economy where you can carrot-stick them using whatever means are convenient. Black projects are full of all sorts of loyalty stuff. This is no different.
Yes, and now compound the problem by (1) making it in Alibek's interest to not find something, and (2) give the Soviets 13 (at least) months to clean up their mess. What do you think they're going to find? I could write the report for them from my home desktop without ever stepping outside, and it would have the same conclusion and be just as informative.
It was Meselson who was tasked with finding something at Sverdlovsk. He got there seven years later so the timeliness of his report is pretty laughable. Alibek, meanwhile, had I think eight months? to prep for NATO? But yeah - if you have a financial or occupational interest in not finding anything, yer not gonna find anything.