Obama Administration Surrenders Gulf Oil Leak Estimate E-Mails

CBS NEWS ^ | 11-24-2010 | CBS

[apoliticalone]

Obama Administration Turns Over Internal E-mails by Government Scientists Concerning Estimates Now Acknowledged as Too Low

(AP) The Obama administration late Wednesday defended the integrity of its estimates - which turned out to be inaccurate - during the summer of how much oil spilled in the Gulf of Mexico, turning over thousands of pages of internal e-mails written by government scientists who worked on the project.

In the e-mails, the head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Jane Lubchenco, cautioned a colleague about how to present the government's findings: "I believe we owe it to everyone to provide the best estimates we can where direct measurements are not possible," she wrote. "We also need to be forthright about how certain we are about each number, which we've done."

[apoliticalone]

The only thing that governments have in common is the never ending political desire to cover for their bosses and lie to the people. They always want things to look better.

Government will do anything to avoid telling the truth because it is usually perceived as a failure. Obama should have assumed that BP would have an incentive to understate the leak and worked from that perspective, instead of covering up the extent of the leak.

[Nachum]

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[NorwegianViking]

BP Executive Killed in Florida plane crash:

http://www.wkrg.com/gulf_oil_spill/article/ntsb-investigating-deadly-plane-crash/1202836/Nov-24-2010_6-36-pm/

[Tempest]

Such a well timed release for the most transparent administration ever...

[hondact200]

Hey plug the hole in DC. YOU bunch of idiots in DC are fired get the hell out now. DC is a bunch of crooks and criminals. If you idiots were in the private sector, you all would be in jail. DC is so corrupt that the best thing would be to drop a nuclear bomb on it just to clean up the refuse that is there. the only problem is that the damn rats and cockroaches would probably suvive the nuclear blast. Just venting I am tired of all the damn lies and liars coming from DC. ENOUGH ODUMBO YOUR ASS IS FIRED. GET THE HELL OUT OF MY HOUSE. YOU ARE NOTHING BUT A LYING SACK OF EXCREMENT.