BP, Coast Guard WITHHELD VIDEO Showing Massive Scope Of OIL SPILL

[Segami]

They continue to feed the public a steady diet of deception & misdirection. Obama needs to appoint a Special Prosecutor to investgate ALL aspects of this disaster.
:mad::mad::mad:



"Federal officials and the oil giant BP effectively conspired to keep the worst images of the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico from the public, according to a report Thursday.


The US Coast Guard, which is coordinating response efforts to the spill on behalf of the government, had hours of video showing the extent of the spill within nine days after the spill began. But by that point, they'd released only a single fuzzy still image.


"But inside the unified command center, where BP and federal agencies were orchestrating the spill response, video monitors had already displayed hours of footage they did not make public," ABC News' veteran investigative reporter Brian Ross reports. "The images showed a far more dire situation unfolding underwater. The footage filmed by submarines showed three separate leaks, including one that was unleashing a torrent of oil into the Gulf."

<http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/bp-feds-withheld-videos-showing-massive-scope-oil/story?id=10819367>


BP told the network they'd turned the video over to the Feds, and the decision to release the video was on the Feds alone.


"The video has been available to the unified command from the very beginning," BP spokesman Mark Proegle was quoted as saying. "It's always been here from the beginning. They had it."



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<http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0604/bp-feds-videos-showed-magnitude-spill-secret/>

[DrDan]

1. why am I not surprised by this

[unhappycamper]

2. No need to get the proles excited. n/t

[bdamomma]

3. they need criminal charges to be implemented.

:grr:

[babylonsister]

4. BP Releases Oil Spill Video After Pressure From White House, CG and Media

BP Releases Oil Spill Video After Pressure From White House and Media

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

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White House and Coast Guard officials rejected suggestions that they had ceded too much control of the oil spill to BP. "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.

[Segami]

6. That was a May 12th ABC Blotter posting.

This is the June 3rd ABC Blotter posting excerpt:



" Coast Guard officials told ABC News that BP refused to allow them to release the more startling images, arguing they were proprietary. But at the time, the agency was doing little to convey to the world what the images were showing. Coast Guard Admiral Mary Landry was sticking with estimates, calculated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which put the spill's size at about 5,000 barrels a day for several weeks. Coast Guard officials said they were focused on the response, and advised the public not to worry about just how much oil was pouring into the water.

"I would caution you not to get fixated on an estimate of how much is out there," said Adm. Landry.

Two days later, as oil continued to spew, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano said much the same thing.

"This fixation on the number of barrels is a little bit misleading," said Napolitano.

BP officials said everyone inside the Unified Command center in Louisiana agreed that the 5,000 barrel figure was the best they could offer.


But Dr. Ian MacDonald, an oceanographer and oil expert at Florida State University said he disagrees, and he remains "baffled and bothered" by the decision to keep under wraps the images that he believes indicated the spill was much bigger.


"We need to know what's coming at us," he told ABC News. "You know, we are Americans, we respond to threats. Don't sugarcoat it. Tell us the truth and we'll do the best we can. And I think that's exactly what didn't happen here. The government, I'm sorry to say has been behind the information curve every step in this process."



<http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/bp-feds-withheld-videos-showing-massive-scope-oil/story?id=10819367>

[babylonsister]

9. And it's all written in the past tense. I wish more folks would

have taken issue with this:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8478719

BP, Prior to Gulf Accident, Said Measuring Oil Flow Was ‘Critical’ to Effective Response

[rocktivity]

5. And in other news, the sun rose in the east

They've known how bad this was from Day One. They're just getting around to telling us.

It' getting downright predictable.

:boring:
rocktivity

[SidDithers]

7. Your REALLY do LIKE to us CAPS in your SUBJECT line, don't YOU?....nt

Sid

[Segami]

8. Hey Sid, you do it your way and I'll do it my way and please check your grammar before posting.

[Bonobo]

11. But you're threatening his world view!!! nt

[Bonobo]

10. You should change your screen name.

Sid Dithers was a grumpy old man, but at least he was funny.