Sound like an exxageration? Well, I got news for ya.
It ain't.
The Obama administration blocked efforts by government scientists to tell the public just how bad the Gulf oil spill could become and made 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.
It seems impossible to me that Barack Obama himself would order an internal investigation on his own staff knowing full well it would uncover this kind of cloak and dagger incompetence. So the only conclusion I can come to is that he directed people to do their jobs, and they failed him.
This disgusting knife in the back of the American Public smells Rahmish to me. And it makes me even more grateful that the Asp is out of the White House. I need for the President to speak to us and explain how this could have happened. But I've wanted him to come to a microphone and explain a lot of things, and it hasn't happened once to date. He's happy to call a press conference and lecture us on rallying around his camp and bucking up. But I don't expect a "My Team Failed" speech is anytime coming.
From the beginning, there was "a contradiction between discoveries and concerns by academic scientists and statements by NOAA," (Florida State University professor Ian) MacDonald said in an interview with the AP at the oil spill conference.
And he said it is still going on. MacDonald and Georgia Tech scientist Joseph Montoya said NOAA is at it again with statements saying there is no oil in ocean floor sediments. A University of Georgia science cruise, which Montoya was on, found ample evidence of oil on the Gulf floor.
I don't blame Obama for this scandalous coverup. What I will take issue with however will be if he defaults to the same protectionism for BP and frankly all huge corporations over the demand for answers by the American public. I expect to be disappointed again. And again.
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