Why is this the person the one taking the fall? Mary Kendal has

[truedelphi]

Been out there working against the insider, congflict of interest inner circle of the Oil Companies and the Oversight Agnecy (That is the notorious MMS)

What am I missing?

US Inspector General Report: Falsified Oil Rig Inspections and Other

Author:Stephen Lendman
Date Created
26 May 2010
Date Edited
27 May 2010

The worsening Gulf crime scene
US Inspector General Report - Falsified Oil Rig Inspections and Other

Improprieties - by Stephen Lendman

On May 24, Mary L. Kendall, Acting Interior Department Inspector General's memo to her boss, Secretary Ken Salazar, discussed an "Investigative Report," titled "Island Operating Company, et al," addressing allegations that Lake Charles, Louisiana District Office

Minerals Management Service (MMS) employees (in charge of inspections and oversight) "accepted gifts from oil and gas production companies."

Occurring prior to 2007, it provides evidence that "a much-needed (MMS ethics) change is required." Ordinarily, public release would have followed a formal MMS response, 90 days after getting it. But today's events forced Kendall "to release it now," saying her greatest concern is the "environment in which these inspectors operate - particularly the ease with which they move between industry and government."

She found evidence that MMS and industry personnel fraternized and exchanged gifts, and have known each other since childhood. MMS staff used illegal drugs, viewed pornography on their government
computers, and sent emails with racist comments, citing one manager saying:

"Obviously, we're all oil industry. We're all from the same part of the country. Almost all of our inspectors have worked for oil companies out on these same platforms. They grew up in the same towns." They've been friends all their lives. "They've hunted together. They fish together.

They skeet shoot together....They do this all the time."
The full article can be viewed at
http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2010/05/us-inspector-general-report-falsified.html

[truedelphi]

1. For those who care to, you can view her attack on the Oil and inspection culture on C Span

At this link here:

http://www.cspan.org/Watch/Media/2010/05/26/HP/A/33383/House+Natural+Resources+Cmte+Hearing+on+the+Gulf+of+Mexico+Oil+Spill.aspx

Watch as the inner circle of House of Representatives gets a bit hot under the collar. Their entire attitude is that the only way you can have oversight of the Oil Industry is to have the same people that once were part of the Oil Industry inspecting it!

Why, without us foxes looking out for the workers and the environment, no one would pay any attention at all to the chickens!

[aquart]

2. Salazar fired Mary Kendal?

[truedelphi]

3. Point well taken. OP header edited to reflect it. n/t

[inna]

4. K&R, but I'm still at a loss what happened - has she been fired, and if so,

by whom and for what reason?

I did a quick google search, and didn't find any info about her being fired.

She does seems like "a good guy" in all this mess, though.


Any more info/links on this will be much appreciated, if anybody has it.

[truedelphi]

7. You are quite right. Pls see response five and six. n/t

[Dems2002]

5. Wrong person

I think Mary is getting confused with Elizabeth Birnbaum, who resigned.

U.S. Minerals Management Service head S. Elizabeth Birnbaum has resigned according to U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar who said “She did it on her own terms and her own volition". While many will wonder whether Ms. Birnbaum quit or was simply fired few will wonder why she is no longer atop the MMS.


http://www.examiner.com/x-43910-Liberal-Examiner~y2010m5d27-Obama-oil-chief-shown-the-door

[truedelphi]

6. Yes yes yes. I confess to total brain death earlier today.

I scrambled those two names. Thank you for pointing this out.

Having heard some tough news about a relative early today, when I got back to the internet, my brain just transferred the memory of one name into the existence of the other.

Kendall doesn't deserve to have to step down, and she didn't.. Birnbbaum could very well deserve it.
can't say that I know that much about her.