WALLACE: “.... How do you think the Obama administration has handled the oil spill so far?”
PALIN: “...the oil companies who have so supported President Obama in his campaign and are supportive of him now I don’t know why the question isn’t asked by the mainstream media and by others if there’s any connection with the contributions made to President Obama and his administration and the support by the oil companies to the administration.”
“Big Oil”, BP, AP, et.al., fund the ‘RAT agenda big time: [snip]
Here:
Transcript: Sarah Palin on ‘FNS’
www.foxnews.com ^ | Sunday, May 23, 2010 | Sarah Palin & Chris Wallace
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2519737/posts?page=8#8
Lab Chosen To Test Oil Spill Water & Animal Samples Has Ties To BP
AllGov ^ | 5/22/2010 | Noel Brinkerhoff
Posted on Sunday, May 23, 2010 9:25:17 PM by Laissez-faire capitalist
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2519699/posts
To find out how much damage the Deepwater Horizon accident has caused the environment, experts are collecting water samples from the Gulf of Mexico for testing. But the federal government is requiring these samples to be tested at ONE laboratory (TDI Brooks International’s B&B Laboratories) which does work for the petroleum industry, including BP, owner of the offshore oil platform that blew up and sank.
In addition to this potential conflict of interest, federal officials have mandated that BP gets to hire the companies that collect data as part of efforts to rescue wildlife covered with oil.
“Everywhere you look, if you look, you start seeing these conflicts of interest in how this disaster is getting handled,” said Taylor Kirschenfeld, a Florida environmental official...
The New York Times also reported that a BP official, Sylvia V. Baca, currently serves as the deputy assistant secretary for land and minerals management in the Department of the Interior, giving her oversight of offshore drilling.
Conflict of Interest Worries Raised In Spill Tests (By Ian Urbina, New York Times) [Link at URL].
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