Deepwater Horizon tragedy: Oil platforms overseen by agency involved in meth-snorting-off-toaster-

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Deepwater Horizon tragedy: Oil platforms overseen by agency involved in meth-snorting-off-toaster-oven scandal
Fri Apr 30 16:15:00 2010 CST

By Jennifer Peebles
If you're wondering how a giant oil slick could be allowed to form in the Gulf Coast and lap at the Louisiana shoreline, here's a scary thought: The agency responsible for preventing something like this was too busy snorting crystal meth off toaster ovens.

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Don’t let the Denver datelines fool you. The sleaze-soaked federal Interior Department office that grabbed headlines this week is actually in Colorado, but there was plenty of impropriety going on in Houston by workers with Uncle Sam’s Minerals Management Service.

Sadly, our favorite bit of tawdriness in the scandal –- the one that involved a federal official snorting crystal meth off a toaster oven –- took place near the Mile High City, as best we can tell from reading the three special reports issued this week by the Interior Department’s inspector general. But the reports say officials with the federal Minerals Management Service were selling influence, cutting insider deals, getting freebies and meals and who-knows-what-else in the Bayou City.

Funny, that’s not what they were supposed to be doing. They were supposed to be collecting money from Big Oil on behalf of the taxpayers.

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much more at link:

http://www.texaswatchdog.org/2010/04/deepwater-horizon-tragedy-oil-platforms-overseen-by-agency/1272654950.column

[Scuba]

1. Don't forget the part about...

...these so called 'regulators' being in bed (literally) with whores from the corporations they were supposed to be regulating. This was exposed is early as 2004, but these scum ARE STILL ISSUING PERMITS even after Ken Salazar (head of MMS) said "No more permits" just a week or so ago.

What is wrong with this country???