“There were a whole host of problems that occurred on this well and on this rig. Many of those problems were detected hours before, in fact, days beforehand,” he said. “No level of regulation would have prevented what happened.”
That's Ken Salazar, Secretary of the Interior. Barack Obama's Secretary of the Interior.
Not George Bush's appointee, not Dick Cheney's, not BP's. Barack Obama's.
President Obama took partial ownership of this disaster by not reforming the Minerals Management Service. I think that if this statement stands he owns the whole pig, lipstick and all.
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