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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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To: MustKnowHistory

I don’t know...we’ve never seen anything like it. This bunch makes the Carter Administration look like the Founding Fathers!


21 posted on 06/01/2010 1:23:49 PM PDT by pgkdan (I Miss Ronald Reagan!)
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To: Genoa

FIX the PROBLEM
NOT the BLAME

A-holes


22 posted on 06/01/2010 1:23:53 PM PDT by Marty62 (marty60)
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To: Pan_Yan

According to the live feed they’re doing some cutting right now.


23 posted on 06/01/2010 1:24:02 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: Pan_Yan

Cool. We can have an exhaustive investigation starting with why oil companies are forced to drill in deep water where its nearly impossible to stop leaks and continue trough to the safety award given the very rig that exploded by the Obama Administration last year.


24 posted on 06/01/2010 1:24:26 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: Pan_Yan; Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ..

The list, ping


25 posted on 06/01/2010 1:25:24 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Pan_Yan

BP wants to get this thing under control. It’s BP’s money that’s flowing out of that pipe. As for stopping cutting, well they didn’t stop. They just shifted position. They are cutting right now. Nothing to do with the teleprompter in chief.


26 posted on 06/01/2010 1:26:08 PM PDT by SunTzuWu
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To: Pan_Yan

I thought the Obama administration has been in cotrol since day one. At least that’s what Obama said when he thought top kill was workign simultaneously with his statement. So, wouldn’t the US GOvt be investigating itself?


27 posted on 06/01/2010 1:26:10 PM PDT by sappy
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To: kidd

They didn’t take GM, Chrysler, Merrill Lynch, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Citigroup, etc, etc, etc to court. They just usurped the law, tore up legal agreements, threw legitimate creditors in the streets, robbed the treasury and ignored the rule of law.

No courts needed, except for show trials like KSM and BP. One will be given every chance at defense. The other will be railroaded. Guess which is which.


28 posted on 06/01/2010 1:26:13 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
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To: pgkdan

Amazingly Obama and Holder think that you can solve engineering problems by throwing more lawyers on.


29 posted on 06/01/2010 1:26:21 PM PDT by muawiyah ("Git Out The Way")
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To: Pan_Yan

You don’t think that government interfered in the process, do you?
This ‘Black Wave’ -dead zone in the Gulf, (like the ‘Black Blizzard’ of the Great Depression dust bowl) will be laid at the feet of incompetent bureaucrats.


30 posted on 06/01/2010 1:27:01 PM PDT by griswold3 (Barack Obama’s First Law of Leadership: “I just work here.”)
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To: kidd
1. Spend more on government programs. 2. Take things to court.

Providing millions in income to two of his most $$$upportive constituencies - lawyers and public employee unions.

Coincidentally.

31 posted on 06/01/2010 1:27:11 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: Pan_Yan

BP Criminal Probe? 

How about "Government to launch criminal probe into Black Panther voter intimidation"!

32 posted on 06/01/2010 1:27:16 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: qwertypie
BP should just walk away and publicly announce that it’s Obama’s baby now. See how the politics of that one works out.

And take all their equipment everywhere in the US so the great Zero cannot impound or confiscate it for use by the government. Immediately load it all on their ships and go Bye-Bye. Also close all offices, definitely close all oil wells now pumping or drilling in the US (including Alaska), stop shipping oil to the US except for cash in advance and double the market price. Repatriate all non-US citizens back to the UK. And then buy one big billboard in Times Square giving the finger to Zero and his henchmen.

33 posted on 06/01/2010 1:28:00 PM PDT by ProudFossil
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To: Pan_Yan

People want blood...and they will get it.


34 posted on 06/01/2010 1:28:32 PM PDT by mainsail that
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To: Pan_Yan
Holder = Boot

Repair Effort = Neck

Not hard to predict outcome........

35 posted on 06/01/2010 1:28:36 PM PDT by blackdog
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To: Pan_Yan; All

Looks like they’re cutting again...


36 posted on 06/01/2010 1:28:41 PM PDT by thoolou ("I may have invented it, but Bill made it famous." - David Bradley, inventor of Ctrl-Alt-Del)
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To: thoolou

Looks like they have two saws going now.


37 posted on 06/01/2010 1:29:16 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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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 see I am not alone on this!
38 posted on 06/01/2010 1:29:55 PM PDT by ColdOne
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To: PGR88
Obama has given the green-light to have DOJ, the States, and liability lawyers bankrupt and dismember BP

Exactly: and if BP - with all its expertise that was talked up last week - isn't going to be getting any credit for helping out, then they may as well pull itself back into a shell and await the inevitable. BP is willing to do everything it can IF they are allowed to survive -- but threatening the bosses will not engender good will or cooperation.

39 posted on 06/01/2010 1:29:55 PM PDT by alancarp (Please don't tell Obama what comes after "trillion")
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To: SunTzuWu
BP pays royalties on the oil coming out of the formation whether or not they sell the stuff.

It's Obamamoney coming out the pipe!

40 posted on 06/01/2010 1:29:58 PM PDT by muawiyah ("Git Out The Way")
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