WASHINGTON, D.C., July 20, 2010
Ex-Bush Officials: Massive Spill Was Unthinkable
(CBS) Two former Interior Secretaries told a Congressional hearing today that the past safety record of offshore oil exploration in the United States led them and other government officials to consider a spill of the magnitude that has swamped the Gulf of Mexico for the last three months as unthinkable.
"All of us - present and former Administration officials, Governors, Members of Congress and citizens - never contemplated an accident of this magnitude could ever happen," said Dirk Kempthorne, who served as Interior secretary from 2006 to January 2009 under President George W. Bush.
"Had we thought so, I am confident that both the Executive and the Legislative Branch would have worked on a bipartisan basis to prevent it."
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Instead we held secretive closed door meetings with Dick Cheney & George W Bush's Oil buddies to deregulate deep water drilling. Drill baby drill!! Spill baby spill!! Kill baby kill!!
