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Not much news on the SWAT team, but apparently it is in the works.

MORT KONDRAKE, EXECUTIVE EDITOR, ROLL CALL:

But he's [Obama] doing the right thing. He's sending hands down there, SWAT teams and all the rest, to make sure that other oil rigs are safe.

from FoxNews Special Report w/ Bret Baier: All-Star Panel on Massive Gulf Oil Spill , Friday, April 30, 2010.

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MSM mention of SWAT involvement seems to be relegated to the blogs.

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Ed O'Keefe of the Washington Post lists the various governmental agencies involved in his article, Oil spill: The government's response

... Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson, Energy and Climate Change Policy Assistant Carol Browner and NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenco plan to visit the Gulf Coast region Friday to oversee federal efforts.

INTERIOR DEPARTMENT:
The department deployed SWAT teams from the Minerals Management Service to inspect 30 drilling rigs operating in the deepwater sections of the Gulf of Mexico.

SWAT corp is one of the leading environmental spill cleanup companies in Canada. This could be what they were meaning. Of course the administration would know that the conspiracy theory community would take it and run with it and are probably sitting back having a good laugh.

Having said that, I work for the company that made the BOP’s for this rig. There are just too many failsafes on the rig and in the BOP for a complete failure like this to happen. Plus, too many coincidences with a finished well being shut in exploding on earth day, obama expanding offshore drilling, South Korean owned rig, etc...

There is more to this story but I doubt we will ever know exactly what happened.