"Gulf spill site becomes an underwater crime scene; BP to gather evidence for investigators" by Jeffrey Collins, Associated Press | August 7, 2010
NEW ORLEANS — Now that
Yeah, sure, the same way they destroyed it after 9/11?
The wreckage — including the failed blowout preventer and the blackened, twisted remnants of the drilling platform — may be Exhibit A in the effort to establish who is responsible for the biggest peacetime oil spill in history. And the very companies under investigation will be in charge of recovering the evidence.
Translation: It's a cover-up.
Hundreds of investigators cannot wait to get their hands on evidence. The FBI is conducting a criminal investigation, the Coast Guard is seeking the cause of the blast, and lawyers are pursuing millions of dollars in damages for the families of the 11 workers killed, the dozens injured, and the thousands whose livelihoods have been damaged....
BP will surely want a look at the items, particularly if it tries to shift responsibility for the disaster onto other companies, such as
BP and Transocean — which could face heavy penalties if found to be at fault — have said they will raise some of the wreckage if it can be done without doing more damage to the oil well. That would give the two companies responsibility for gathering up the very evidence that could be used against them.
It is SO REMINISCENT of the 9/11 Cover-Up, 'er, Commission whitewash!
But the federal government has said it simply does not have the knowhow and the deep-sea equipment that the drilling industry has. And it said the operation will be closely supervised by the Coast Guard....
This is the same government that granted BP all the waivers and whose managers where high on meth and watching porn while accepting industry reports on safety?
The same Coast Guard that has been spewing BP lies like a leaking well?
Yeah, you will have to excuse the lack of confidence I have in the government and its investigations.
Investigations of the disaster began immediately after the rig blew up on April 20. The government alone is conducting about a dozen, including several congressional investigations, criminal and civil probes by the Justice Department, and an examination by an expert panel convened by President Obama.
Officials want to find out not only the cause of the explosion, but also how oil drilling a mile or more below the surface can be made safer.
A final outcome could be years away, said David Uhlmann, former chief of the Justice Department’s environmental crimes team.
“Normally an investigation of a case this complicated would take two to three years. This is not a normal case,’’ he said.
Any items brought up from the seafloor will be photographed and preserved. Investigators for the government, BP, and others will try to come up with testing procedures acceptable to all sides.
I'm sorry, readers; I am simply NO LONGER INTERESTED in any "investigation" some LYING GOVERNMENT carries out.
The blowout preventer will probably make it to the surface. The 300-ton mechanism is designed to be placed on a well and brought back to the surface for reuse. It was supposed to be the final line of defense against a catastrophic spill, but BP documents obtained by a congressional committee showed the device had a significant hydraulic leak and a dead or low battery....
Yeah, workers were warning for months the thing was not safe but no sense mentioning that.
Everything the MSM mentions comes from government.
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