White House Pressured BP To Release Video

[berni_mccoy]

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/bp-releases-oil-spill-video-pressure-white-house/story?id=10629165&nwltr=blotter_featureHed

Twenty-three days after the explosion and under pressure from the White House and the media, BP today finally released a thirty second underwater video of the oil from its broken well spewing into the Gulf of Mexico.
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"In this case, the Coast Guard encouraged BP to make (the) video responsive to requests available to the press and today they did," the Coast Guard said in a statement to ABC News.

But control of the video, and its powerful images, remained in the hands of BP, under rules agreed to by federal officials over the last several years.

[Junkdrawer]

1. You mean the 30 sec. snip from the ones the government were watching every day?

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"At the end of the day, the White House finally acquiesced to the 30 second piece because they understood the political and media pressure," said CPI’s John Soloman. "Why not sooner? It’s been going on for three weeks. People have seen this internally within government almost every day. Why can’t the American people see it?"

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http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/47660

[MadBadger]

2. FDL and Berni are using the same source.

Except Berni didnt post bullshit that when against what was said.

[berni_mccoy]

3. Thanks but I'll take reported facts over FDL b.s. spin and opinion.

[MadBadger]

6. It really is that simple. You quoted the article. FDL used the same article but added their BS Spin

[katandmoon]

4. Big. Fucking. Whoop.

[berni_mccoy]

8. Is that what the truth is to you?

[katandmoon]

9. You consider a 30 second video "the truth"? This is nothing but the most shallow PR.

[berni_mccoy]

10. I consider using the above story to blame Obama and twisting it's headline into

the exact opposite a bold face lie. But, you'd probably cheer that thread on.

[lonestarnot]

5. Thanks for ending that confussing bullshit.

:D

[Scurrilous]

7. Good for the Whitehouse.

:thumbsup: