by The Cunctator
From the Wonk Room. This afternoon, Attorney General Eric Holder announced "that the federal government has launched criminal and civil investigations into the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that is now the worst in U.S. history," even as BP runs the disaster response. The Department of Justice investigation comes on top of the Minerals Management Service-Coast Guard investigation, the work of the independent Presidential commission, and several oversight investigations by Congress. Saying the criminal investigation had begun weeks ago, Holder told reporters that the federal government "will prosecute to the fullest extent of the law anyone who has violated the law":
continued at Daily Kos....
