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Government to launch criminal probe into BP spill: Holder (BP resumes cutting after brief pause)
Reuters ^ | Tue Jun 1, 2010 3:58pm EDT | Ed Stoddard

Posted on 06/01/2010 1:13:59 PM PDT by Pan_Yan

(Reuters) - The government has launched a criminal probe into BP Plc's (BP.L) massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Attorney General Eric Holder said on Tuesday.

Federal agencies, including the FBI, are participating in the probe and "if we find evidence of illegal behavior, we will be forceful in our response," Holder told reporters after meeting with state and federal prosecutors in New Orleans.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhodoj; bp; corruption; democrats; energy; fubo; fueh; holder; holdertruthfile; liberalfascism; obama; oil; oilspill
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Minutes after Obama came out and called for punishment of those responsible for the 'death and destruction' in the gulf BP, which was in the middle of cutting the broken riser pipe, stopped. One ROV was taken back to the surface, the cutting claw was removed from the broken riser pipe and now all camera views show no activity.

I'm sure it's just a coincidence.

1 posted on 06/01/2010 1:13:59 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
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To: Pan_Yan
Wow, how about letting them get the dang thing stopped first? Or will the feds now be taking over?

2 posted on 06/01/2010 1:15:27 PM PDT by Genoa (Luke 12:2)
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To: Pan_Yan

Send the FBI in and arreest all of BP’s top brass and every engineer working on the project. That should get the leak solved in no time! /sarcasm

What dolts! I despise this administration more every day. It seems like I couldn’t despise them more than I do right now but I know it will be worse tomorrow!


3 posted on 06/01/2010 1:17:42 PM PDT by pgkdan (I Miss Ronald Reagan!)
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To: Pan_Yan

BP should just walk away and publicly announce that it’s Obama’s baby now. See how the politics of that one works out.


4 posted on 06/01/2010 1:18:26 PM PDT by qwertypie
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To: Genoa

I was watching the cutting on the live thread when the radio played Obama’s comments about forcefully going after the perpetrators. Minutes later the 47,000 lb shears that were crushing the riser pipe were opened up and pulled back to the surface. Anyone else see a pattern?


5 posted on 06/01/2010 1:18:27 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
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To: Pan_Yan

Simply brilliant. Now nothing is being done to stop the leak.

Holder, a box of rocks has more common sense than you and Obama combined.


6 posted on 06/01/2010 1:18:31 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (J. D. Hayworth, the next Senator, the Great State of Arizona - Sen. Poopdeck, Panama is calling...)
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To: Pan_Yan

I am sure a leader would have been working with, not against BP from day 1 of this disaster. There will be years to litigate. Grandstanding is the only language the petty dictators seem to have mastered. The agitator in chief has shown that that most any real job is above the pay grade of an illegitimate community organizer no matter what color he may be.


7 posted on 06/01/2010 1:18:54 PM PDT by Steamburg (The contents of your wallet is the only language Politicians understand.)
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BPs Law firm said. Stop now and stfu.

Obama destroys the entire coatline of the Gulf of Mexico.

This level of incompetence can’t be a coincidence.


8 posted on 06/01/2010 1:18:57 PM PDT by Marty62 (marty60)
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To: Pan_Yan
The only thing I can see as being illegal is collusion between the govt's reps and someone at BP.

Since the govt chick was fired...I'd call her "The Woman Who Knew Too Much"...

A bus won't work...she's going to Marcy Park.

9 posted on 06/01/2010 1:19:21 PM PDT by Sacajaweau (What)
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This is very enlightened... real Stalinists would just declare BP personell as “wreckers” and “counter revolutionaries” and shoot them.


10 posted on 06/01/2010 1:19:29 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (Live jubtabulously!)
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To: pgkdan
It seems like I couldn’t despise them more than I do right now but I know it will be worse tomorrow!

I'm right there with you. Well said.

11 posted on 06/01/2010 1:19:44 PM PDT by RedMDer (Throw them all out in 2010... Forward with Confidence! Forward!)
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To: pgkdan

Everyday just gets worse and worse.

Does this level of incompetence just come naturally to them, or is it done deliberately?


12 posted on 06/01/2010 1:19:44 PM PDT by MustKnowHistory
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To: Pan_Yan

Obama has given the green-light to have DOJ, the States, and liability lawyers bankrupt and dismember BP


13 posted on 06/01/2010 1:19:48 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Pan_Yan

The Gulf isn’t where the “criminal probes” are needed!


14 posted on 06/01/2010 1:20:15 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, A Matter Of Fact, Not A Matter Of Opinion)
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Huh? I thought Holder was all tied up with the investigations of the Philly Black Panthers, the Sestak bribes, NYC terror trials, Islamic terrorism and jaywalkers?
15 posted on 06/01/2010 1:20:26 PM PDT by JPG (Mr. Gore, we have a warrant for your arrest...put your hands behind your back.)
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To: Steamburg

BP is a private, non-government entity,

and is therefore, in the minds of fascists like 0bama and those he surrounds himself with,
“the enemy”.


16 posted on 06/01/2010 1:20:56 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: Pan_Yan

The Obama administation has only two tools in their governing toolbox:

1. Spend more on government programs.
2. Take things to court.

Cooperation with private industry is not in the toolbox.
Using the courts to make a private industry into a government program is in the toolbox.


17 posted on 06/01/2010 1:22:20 PM PDT by kidd
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To: PGR88

And send their employees to the Unemployement lines.


18 posted on 06/01/2010 1:22:36 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: JPG

Don’t forget, Arizona!!! These scumbags are the ones who need to be put on trial.


19 posted on 06/01/2010 1:22:52 PM PDT by Stayingawayfromthedarkside
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To: Pan_Yan

Obama and his lap dog Holder were under pressure to do something and it looks like they now have. Total idiots!


20 posted on 06/01/2010 1:23:35 PM PDT by jazusamo (But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
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