James Carville Takes On Obama On Oil Spill: He's 'Risking Everything' With 'Go Along With BP Strategy'

The minute he says, 'I'm in charge,' he takes the blame, but somebody has to. It's in our interest."

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That minute came and went weeks ago.



From an interview with the national incident commander, Admiral Thad Allen on The Rachel Maddow Show this week -



MADDOW: In terms of the overall responsibility here and the direction of the response, if BP wasn‘t doing something that you thought could improve the situation—I‘m not accusing them of doing that, but if that were the case, could you compel them to do it?



ALLEN: That‘s a great question, Rachel, and the answer is yes. Under the law, the federal on-scene coordinator—in this case, it‘s Rear Admiral Mary Landry, who runs the area unified command down in Robert, Louisiana, who reports directly to me. We have the authority to direct BP to provide information. That is how the video was released today that you saw.



http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37234087/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/



The Obama administration has been watching that live feed for weeks (even though it was only released to the general public a couple of days ago), knew that more than 5000 barrels a day was gushing out, and is satisfied with letting it gush until the target date of August 14th that BP has given for capping it.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost