Who are these Dept of Minerals Management employees with the atrocious behavior?

[Toucano]

Is there a reason their names aren't being made public?

Are federal workers protected?

I remember knowing names of federal employees involved in other scandals.

[napi21]

1. I don't think we know if they're even still Fed. workers. They well

could be oil co employees by now. After all, their great protectors, Shub & Cheney, are both gone & can't help them.

[Toucano]

2. You're right. But now I want to know who they are even more! n/t

[Kalun D]

3. Of Them All, The BP Officials Are the Worst

they knew the BOP was compromised

they knew it was risky removing the mud before the final cement cap

but they were in a hurry and over-ruled the driller and the top Transocean official on the rig.

MMS probably wasn't even there when it happened. Of course they were lax in their oversite, that goes without saying. They're Bush cronies is all you have to know.

[Oregone]

4. No idea, but they sound like wild party guests

[KT2000]

5. Probably bush plants

remember when he filled the agencies with career employees so they would remain past his administration?
I will bet you that is where most of them came from.

[Cleita]

6. It was mentioned on radio news that they are leftovers from the

Bush administration. I don't really know if Salazar is to blame. He claims he's trying to clean house even before this oil disaster, but we will see.

[truedelphi]

7. Did you just catch the C Span segment wherein this woman

From the Administration is there before the House and dealing with some committee (or other's) members, and they' re all aghast to think that "ethics" will now be attempted to be applied.

One after another of these committee members are saying things like, "You cannot mean that we can't accept football tickets from our friends..."

And some other jack ass is saying "It is really stupid to expect honesty and ethical behavior in this day and age." (I am paraphrasing slightly, but only very slightly.)

Apparently everyone who is in MMS got there through the revolving doors of industry, And these people cannot at all accept that after a person is put on the MMS board that then they cannot at all accept a position inside an oil company when they get out.

!!!!!!!

This entire thing needs to be shaken out. Get some decent hard working citizens WITH NO FRIGGIN' TIES to industry into MMS. Make it stick that there is no longer a possibility of serving first on MMS and then granting exemptions during your tenure there , and then leaving and going and sitting as a Vp at the oil company you helped out.

I am really steaming when I think about what I just watched.

These people were on C Span - but they are so used to being insiders doing favors for industry, and then being industrialists asking for favors, they don't even know that most people do not live their lives this way!

[Scuba]

9. Ethical behavior is a foreign concept to many pols

[Toucano]

10. I missed that but thank you.

Incredible!

[truedelphi]

13. Well thank you in a big way for this OP. I did offer it my

K & R.

Will see if I can find the C Span links, and then post them here. I am going tow rite to Senator Boxer's office about this. She was great on ending some of the DOD waste and fraud. Maybe she would turn her attention to this.

[truedelphi]

14. Also, i just realized the MMS was the agency that was found to have engaged in

Sex with oil industry people, for quid per quo activities. Not so long ago.

So when these people talk about their "friendships" and the "close inner circle" - they really really mean it!

[Toucano]

15. I heard that on Rachel Maddow

Government workers are in bed with big oil. Literally!

But is there any reason why their names aren't being published?

It just seems like such an omission to me.

[lonestarnot]

8. I want to know all there is to know about all of them.

[Toucano]

11. That's what I mean.

If someone gets pulled over for drunk driving, their name gets published in the paper.

What makes these people so special?

[FreeJG]

12. Like all of our political structure it's about sex parties, and cocaine,google The Franklin Cover Up

They use it to compromise politicians, and for policy they want. If you say no...they have pictures of you having sex with ...well usually children. What people will do to be in politics never ceases to amaze me!

Google the Franklin Cover Up..this was covered up during Iran Contra...but lives today...a perfect example is the sex and drug parties at the MMS with Oil heads....