The lying? The company had concerns about the Deepwater Horizon well nearly a year ago. But, that's not what officials indicated to Congress. Next question: Will Congress put BP's asshats under oath next time they speak? If not, then Congress is part of the problem, right?
It's getting so bad that, per a great AP enterprise story, BP won't even give a straight answer about why it lied in the past about things such as the rate of gushing.
The failing? BP's "junk shot" (how about shooting in Tony Hayward's "junk"?) doesn't seem to be working. Don't hold your breath on the "top kill," either:
The technician working on the project said Saturday pumping had again been halted and a review of the data so far was under way. “Right now, I would not be optimistic,” the technician (said).
Glenn Greenwald, with whom I agree on a lot of things, is only half right on this issue. It's true that there's not a whole lot Team Obama can do right now, post-blowout. But, so far, he's failed to devote any of his columns/blogs to how bad a choice Kenny Boy Salazar was to head Interior, just how little work Salazar did to truly clean house, not just at Minerals Management Service but across Interior, and more. He's also failed to look at how much or how little of an environmentalist Obama might really be, beyond the "green jobs" angle, which he really hasn't done much for anyway.
Glenn, this is the DOI, and the Administration, that was so willing to trust such a blatant liar as BP when it first signed off on expanding offshore drilling. What's so hard to get about why Team Obama has been a #fail precisely because it was a pre-blowout #fail? So, there's nothing much it can do now; defending Team Obama on that grounds is like defending it for not being able to shut a barn door after all the horses escaped, when many people knew that was a good possibility before the horses escaped.
C'mon, Glenn, you can do better.
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