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Your apologia is not satisfying me. To call slowness to clean up a marsh the largest coverup in American history is plain, unadulterated (political) hyperbole. I agree that the BP spill was devastataing. But the government did not "commit the atrocity." BP, Halliburton, and the other companies did, with lax government oversight to be sure. To commit an atrocity and coverup would have been for the government to have directly ordered that millions of barrels of oil be purposefully spilled into the Gulf (for whatever nefarious reason) and then to destroy all evidence of its order. And refuse to try to right it.
My Lai was an atrocity that was covered up. The BP oil spill was a result of corporate greed and laxity and lack of sufficient government supervision. Its aftermath--the cleanup--is not tantamount to a coverup.
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