Sunday, June 27, 2010

BP Nixes Congress Talking to Key Employees (and other BP News)

by Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse

Stupak: BP Won't Let Congress Talk To Key Employees, but not ready to issue subpoenas now.

The chairman of a House panel investigating the Gulf oil spill said Friday that BP won't let members talk to several employees who may have critical information about what led to the catastrophe.

Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., told The Associated Press that BP PLC has cited its own investigation as its reason for denying access to the employees.

This is not the first time BP has tried to control governmental probes of BP. The excuse of BP's own internal investigation was used to wiggle its way onto a governmental probe team where it succeeded in flipping employees to recant prior statements unfavorable to BP. Congress does not need to give BP an inch:  BP’s approval ratings of 6% is approaching Saddam Hussein’s 3%, a person that "our nation has gone to war against."



continued at Daily Kos....