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

[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.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

One thing at a time. First, get the leak under control, then do whatever it is that Holder does! PS:

Quit calling it a "spill"!

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

i SO AGREE....I hate this adminsitration more each day...the rage and depression just goes up and down....We have all these people out of work and on welfare too...and this Asshat can’t get people down to the beaches to build barriers or whatever!

[hal ogen]

Every day and in every way nobama cements his stature as “worst president ever.” Every day and every way. duh-bama is such a feckless putz.

[Marty62]

They must be escorted around with a Lawyer.
Can you imagine being a BP exec. You have crude gushing into the gulf and jackels baying at the doors.

FIX the PROBLEM
NOT the BLAME

Dums don’t understand that concept.

[DoughtyOne]

Heh heh heh...

[gleeaikin]

If BP did walk away, then that would be a criminal action.

[gleeaikin]

I et most of the bp heads are democrats.

And you would be wrong. Most are probably Tories or Labour.

[vimto]

From the UK - I was wondering how the Bush administration would have dealt with this?

I think it would have been something like “we will look at the legal issues in due course, but right now we are focused on helping BP stop the flow of oil, getting the environment cleaned up, and getting people back to their work and rebuilding the local economy.”

That IMHO would be sensible.

[Always Independent]

These clowns aren’t very bright, This will get to the point where BP will have no choice being beat over the head constantly by them to just tell the gov’t we aren’t doing anything over and above trying to cap the well. If its the admins aim to file charges against BP then BP will just dummy up and tell them to charge us with a crime and we want to talk to our lawyers.

[jmcenanly]

I don't know if the BP management is up to lighting Wyatt's torch. For all the apocalyptic talk, this is hardly the worst oil spill in history.We spill about 10 times as much oil annually through leakage from ships and wells.
from http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_060110/content/01125111.guest.html
I am also curious as to why the Left is so intent on punishing the board of BP for an accident they are struggling to clean up while they did everything in their power to shelter the man who, among his other crimes, deliberately caused the greatest oil spill in history, and set it ablaze in hopes of wreaking global catastrophe.

[2harddrive]

Just WOW.

[hennie pennie]

It looks like street theater, if you ask me, it's NOT real, it's all sham.

After giving BP almost 2 months to destroy any & all documents related to their culpability in this catastrophe, suddenly Eric Holder and Barack Obama are trying desperately to act like they are going to investigate BP.

There's NO credibility to this entire scenario, it's obviously some type of prearranged act.... it's so phoney & fake...

[hennie pennie]

I don't think their interested in prosecuting BP and/or Transocean.

But I'm sure they are elated at the thought of having to subpoena D.Cheney & Haliburton.

If the jokers in this administration were in any ways concerned about our Gulf Coast, they are doing a superb job in utterly concealing that fact.

[homegroan]

Holder is such a weasely a******.

Ok-I feel better now. (But he does look like a ferret.)

[FBD]

The world of logic is upside down:
Islamic Jihadist groups are now “humanitarian relief organizations”, and oil drilling company people are “murderers, thieves, and terrorists.”

[hal ogen]

Will they send the criminal “probe” down to the leak site and staunch the flow? What feckless losers. nobama must realize that he is worthless...he must.