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Originally Posted by classicman
Could it be next? Could the concerns about this platform and the way both BP and the MMS were doing business be relative to the current spill?
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From CBS New of 10 Sept 2008:
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Sex For Oil Scandal At Interior Department
Government officials handling billions of dollars in oil royalties engaged in illicit sex with employees of energy companies they were dealing with and received numerous gifts from them, federal investigators said Wednesday.
The allegations of bad behavior involve 13 government employees in Denver and Washington, reports CBS News investigative correspondent Sharyl Attkisson. Those accused are workers who sell U.S. mineral rights to oil companies. Such sales are one of the government's biggest sources of revenue besides taxes.
But the Inspector General for the Interior Department says they rigged contracts, and engaged in illegal moonlighting, drugs, sex and gift-taking from oil company representatives, according to three reports released Wednesday.
The reports revealed startling allegations including that an employee attended a so-called "treasure hunt" in the desert with all expenses paid by an oil producer, and that a former supervisor - who bought cocaine from a colleague then boosted her performance award - had sex with subordinates, and steered government contracts to an outside business where he also worked, Attkisson reports.
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What happened when George Jr replaces all top FEMA people with political hacks? Katrina.
What happened when George Jr demoted the Richard Clark's anti-terrorism ground and had to removed from the White House? 11 September.
What happened when Congress attempted to double the SEC budget to find and stop massive financial scams? George Jr's administration refused to take the money. AIG, Madoff, banking crisis, GM, sub-prime loans, etc then occurred at record levels. In most cases, the fraud was never discovered until bankruptcy already happened.
What happened when driller were setting new records by drilling at thousands of feet in the ocean? Oil industry said they had tested and built emergency response equipment. They could lie because professional regulators were replaced with George Jr sexting regulators. When your government is run by extremists, even Jack Abramoff is encouraged.
We will discover failures directly traceable to wacko extremists for years to come. This oil disaster due to corrupt extremists in MMS is just another example. Same people who let BP do no maintenance on the Alaska oil pipeline and did nothing to punish BP for creating that failure. Same people did nothing to demand deep water safety equipment and emergency response solutions. But they did have good sex paid for by George Jr and the oil industry.
They had no working systems to avert failures. They had no designed or working equipment to provide solutions to these failures. They told George Jr's people that these things existed. When your boss is an MBA and a famous party boy, then good sex is more important then requiring engineering and wellhead protection. They were only doing what the new leadership in FEMA, SEC, Dept of Justice, Republican Congressmen, etc had also done. There were no solutions because George Jr’s people never demanded any.
After all, put the best people in power - such as White House lawyers to rewrite all science papers. Did we mention the disaster called Constellation created by the same lawyers? White House mismanagement in 2004 resulted in a useless space vehicle that costs $1billion per seat? (Russians charge $20million per seat). But being a wacko extermist (and therefore dumb) had nothing to do with it. And had nothing to do with zero oversight that resulted in this oil spill. Zero oversight that resulted in no tools to stop the leak and no tools to avert the damage.
But they did have good sex.