Friday, June 18, 2010
Rank Criminality
Rolling Stone exposes the rank criminality of the U.S. Department of Interior's Minerals Management Service that led to the BP spill--an agency deeply in bed with the oil industry, including BP. With the worst safety record in the industry -- 760 citations since 2007 for "egregious and willful" safety violations -- BP was nevertheless allowed free rein by Bush and Obama. Indeed, as Obama unveiled his plan for the greatest expansion of offshore drilling in history, his campaign promise to cleanup MMS corruption was scuttled; since the spill began, White House resources have been mobilized not to cleanup, but to coverup.
