How much of a role did the White House play keeping the public in the dark over the Gulf oil spill? How much effort went into protecting BP?
Plenty, according to Associated Press:"The Obama administration blocked efforts by government scientists to tell the public just how bad the Gulf oil spill could become and committed other missteps that raised questions about its competence and candor during the crisis, according to a commission appointed by the president to investigate the disaster… Among other things, the report says, the administration made erroneous early estimates of the spill's size, and President Barack Obama's senior energy adviser went on national TV and mischaracterized a government analysis by saying it showed most of the oil was "gone." The analysis actually said it could still be there … For the first time, the documents – which are preliminary findings by the panel's staff – show that the White House was directly involved in controlling the message as it struggled to convey that it, not BP, was in charge of responding to what eventually became the biggest offshore oil spill in U.S. history."
The Guardian is even more scathing, revealing that the report showed that the White House blocked government scientists from warning the American public of the potential environmental disaster caused by BP's oil spill.
It was all about protecting BP. Big Government, Big Oil.
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