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President Obama's commission on the BP oil spill didn't spare his administration in its first four draft reports evaluating the government response to the disaster. By publicly lowballing the size of the spill for the first month, the draft reports said, "the federal government created the impression that it was either not fully competent to handle the spill or not fully candid with the American people." One report said the White House quashed a request from government scientists at NOAA to release a worst-case scenario. Did the Obama team try to bury the truth? (Watch an AP report about the finding)
Did the White House bury worst-case BP spill estimates? - Yahoo! News
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POSTED ON OCTOBER 6, 2010, AT 10:51 AM
White House blocked oil spill figures
Watch an AP report about revelations that the U.S. government prevented federal scientists from telling the public just how bad the Gulf oil spill could have been...
http://theweek.com/article/index/207898/white-house-blocked-oil-spill-figures
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#1 - Thu Oct 7, 2010 6:52 PM EDT"the federal government created the impression that it was either not fully competent to handle the spill or not fully candid with the American people."
Good to hear someone in the government being honest for a change.
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#2 - Thu Oct 7, 2010 8:19 PM EDTHi Briwnys, Glad you dropped by.
Unfortunately, they are too few in numbers, too far in between and too down in the hierarchy of powers.
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