"TIM RICHARDSON -> ROSS SAUER"  wrote in
news:30601$POL_INC{at}JamNNTPd:

 TR> On 05-24-10, ROSS SAUER said to ALL:

 RS>> Never let the facts get in the way


 TR> (clip!)



 TR> Regulators Accepted Gifts From Oil Industry, Report Says - WSJ.comMore


 TR> STEPHEN POWER


 TR> WASHINGTON: Employees of a federal agency that regulates offshore
 TR> drilling, including some whose duties included inspecting offshore oil
 TR> rigs, accepted sporting-event tickets, meals, and other gifts from oil
 TR> and natural-gas companies and used government computers to view
 TR> pornography, according to a new report by the Interior Department's
 TR> inspector general.


 TR> The report, published Tuesday on the inspector general's website,
 TR> describes a culture in which inspectors assigned to the Lake Charles,
 TR> La., office of the Minerals Management Service have moved with
"ease"
 TR> between jobs in industry and government, drawing on relationships that
 TR> formed "well before they took their jobs" with the agency.



 TR> Although the report says that "all of the conduct" examined in the
 TR> report is "dated" and occurred prior to 2007, its
publication comes at
 TR> a sensitive time, with Interior Secretary Ken Salazar scheduled to
 TR> testify before Congress Wednesday on his plan to restructure the
 TR> agency following the April 20 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil
 TR> rig. The accident led to the deaths of 11 workers and to the spillage
 TR> of thousands of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico each day.

See that? "(P)rior to 2007."

Who was in charge in 2007?

Give you a hint: *YOUR* boy, Bush.

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