The
Obama administration is desperately trying to avoid coming clean about
its role in delaying capping the Gulf Oil Spill. Billions of dollars in
fines are at stake, so BP is fighting in court to force release of
correspondence related to handling the Gulf Oil Spill which might
indicate that the federal government unnecessarily and substantially
delayed the use of technology that was ultimately proven successful.
Rebecca Mowbray of the New Orleans Times-Picayune has the details of the battle underway in a New Orleans federal court:
Rebecca Mowbray of the New Orleans Times-Picayune has the details of the battle underway in a New Orleans federal court:
In a letter filed in federal court Tuesday, the U.S. government charges that if BP is successful at forcing the release of 21 pieces of correspondence about responding to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, it will harm future disaster response efforts because public officials won't be able to confer frankly about the challenges before them. U.S. Department of Justice attorney Sarah Himmelhoch told Magistrate Judge Sally Shushan that the U.S. government has produced millions of documents in the litigation, and only wants to keep 119 documents confidential, but BP continues to try to force the government to disclose 21 of them. The documents involve communications between top Obama Administration officials in the White House, Department of Energy, Department of Interior and Department of Homeland Security.
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