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http://investigatingobama.blogspot.com/2010/06/video-shows-us-government-well-aware-in.html
The truth has been hiding in plain sight, since May Day, at AL.com. Visit the government at work, collecting data on what is apparently the 22nd, 23rd, or 24th of April — scientists for an United States government which refused clean-up help then and refuses help now — an U.S. government which, it would seem, has lied to us, all this time. Listen to the report.
At 6 minutes 35 seconds, the man on the phone says, “I’ve heard two different estimates on, some’n, far as uh, between sixty-five and a hundred thousand barrels a day.”
And see what is already written on the white board. Those are numbers much, much higher than the story they gave to the public — until perhaps yesterday or today.
Last Wednesday evening, 6/11, I interviewed a director level scientist of BP, Mark Proegler, working for Deepwater Horizon Unified Command. He recounted to me that the official report of the rate of the leak was 5,000 barrels per day, at first. Then, he said, the U.S. government put together two technical groups to assess the flow and they performed numerous tests. Their two results, according to the government, were between 12,000 and 19,000 barrels per day, from one group and between 12,000 to 25,000 barrels per day, from the other. Compare these numbers with the evidence shown here: 65,000 to 100,000 barrels per day. Look for the words used around those numbers. Do you see words such as “could become?” The white board says “reported.” That is corroborated by the man on the telephone.
Pardon, that conversation with BP/Unified Command was Wednesday 6/9.