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Obama Administration Moves To Distance Itself From BP On Oil Spill Response
Washington Post ^ | May 31, 2010 | Joel Achenbach and Jerry Markon

Posted on 05/31/2010 8:32:26 PM PDT by Steelfish

Obama Administration Moves To Distance Itself From BP On Oil Spill Response

Joel Achenbach and Jerry Markon June 1, 2010

Struggling to convey command of the worsening Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the Obama administration is taking steps to distance itself from BP and is dispatching Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. to the Gulf Coast to meet with federal and state prosecutors. The Holder trip could signal that the environmental calamity might become the subject of a criminal investigation.

Holder has said Justice Department lawyers are examining whether there was any "malfeasance" related to the leaking oil well, and investigators, who have already been on the coast for a month, have sent letters to BP instructing the company to preserve internal records related to the spill. But federal officials indicated that Holder's trip, which will include a news conference in New Orleans on Tuesday afternoon, will focus on enforcement of environmental laws and holding BP accountable.

The opening of a criminal investigation or civil action against BP, if either were to happen, would create the unusual situation of the federal government weighing charges against a company that it is simultaneously depending on for the most critical elements of the response to the record oil spill.

"We're cooperating fully with all inquiries, and we're doing everything we need to do and more in terms of preserving records," BP spokesman Andrew Gowers said Monday.

The relationship between the federal government and the oil company has been an awkward collaboration all along --

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Oh my now the distance from BP!

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"We have them by the neck," Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said of BP in congressional testimony last week -- but it reached a turning point Monday when the administration said it no longer wants to share a podium with BP at the daily briefing in Louisiana

1 posted on 05/31/2010 8:32:26 PM PDT by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish

Typical—last Thurs, dear leader was taking credit for stopping the leak! Since the cap did not work, he is now distancing himself!


2 posted on 05/31/2010 8:34:22 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 ("If you think healthcare is expensive now, wait till it is free"--PJ O'rourke)
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To: Steelfish

Obama is an idiot.


3 posted on 05/31/2010 8:34:32 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (JUST VOTE THEM OUT! teapartyexpress.org)
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To: Steelfish

But...but...He won’t rest until...........


4 posted on 05/31/2010 8:34:37 PM PDT by evad (SHUT IT DOWN!!!)
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To: Jim Robinson

You are being too kind.


5 posted on 05/31/2010 8:35:41 PM PDT by Steelfish (ui)
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To: Steelfish
Too late, Obuttocks, you bought it, every smelly little barrel of it. Apparently, he still thinks that all the job of President requires is a touch of pleasing rhetoric, nothing more. Typical stupid liberal.


6 posted on 05/31/2010 8:36:26 PM PDT by Oceander (The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance -- Thos. Jefferson)
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To: Steelfish

This is a sick joke after a weekend where we were assured that the administration is calling all the shots, making the decisions, etc.

In other words, if it seems like a good idea, we thought of it. If it doesn’t work, it’s BP’s baby.

Good God, what a way to run a country...


7 posted on 05/31/2010 8:37:30 PM PDT by DJ Frisat (How's that change workin' out for ya, Obama voters?)
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To: Steelfish

We need engineers and technicians and The Kenyan sends in the lawyers. Brilliant.


8 posted on 05/31/2010 8:37:49 PM PDT by randog (Tap into America!)
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To: Steelfish

Obama did not hold on to the potato very long at all.


9 posted on 05/31/2010 8:38:28 PM PDT by mlocher (USA is a sovereign nation)
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...the administration said it no longer wants to share a podium with BP at the daily briefing in Louisiana.

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I'm not an export on oil spills, but my teleprompter plays one on TV. And now TOTUS has told me that there isn't room for anyone at the podium but me.

10 posted on 05/31/2010 8:38:36 PM PDT by newheart (History is an outbreak of madness--Ellul)
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"We need engineers and technicians and The Kenyan sends in the lawyers. Brilliant."

You beat my by 30 seconds.

"Kids, forget those math classes. When trouble arises, its lawyers we need."

11 posted on 05/31/2010 8:41:27 PM PDT by The Good Doctor (Democracy is the only system where you can vote for a tax that you can avoid the obligation to pay.)
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Lets see ... First he does NOTHING for MORE than 30 days - THEN he jumps the shark on the first day of the “Top Kill”, claiming that HE has been in charge from Day 1 - NOW he wants to distance himself from it ???

I think he’s dippin’ his beak in the coke again ...


12 posted on 05/31/2010 8:44:06 PM PDT by Lmo56
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To: Steelfish

When anything turns out to be hard, Obama’s outta there.


13 posted on 05/31/2010 8:44:38 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: The Good Doctor

You forgot- He sends a lawyer that protects and defends the Black Panthers who intimidated voters with night clubs in front of polling booths but now goes after BP.


14 posted on 05/31/2010 8:46:05 PM PDT by Steelfish (ui)
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To: Steelfish

What happened to we have our boot on their throat?


15 posted on 05/31/2010 8:46:36 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Steelfish

Wow! Obama makes John Kerry look decisive.


16 posted on 05/31/2010 8:48:43 PM PDT by twhitak
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To: Parley Baer

I expect an announcement from the one that all your bp are belong to us


17 posted on 05/31/2010 8:49:04 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: Steelfish
"Obama Administration Moves To Distance Itself From BP On Oil Spill Response

Feets don't fail me now!

18 posted on 05/31/2010 8:49:39 PM PDT by Enterprise (So tell me libs, if there had been blow out at ANWR, could it ever have matched BP's?)
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To: Parley Baer

“We have them by the neck”


19 posted on 05/31/2010 8:51:06 PM PDT by Steelfish (ui)
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To: Parley Baer

I suppose the boot has been outsourced.


20 posted on 05/31/2010 8:51:10 PM PDT by coloradan (The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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