According to
Rolling Stone, the Department of the Interior -- of which Fish & Wildlife is a bureau -- is
untrustworthy and completely failed to ensure appropriate safety measures were being taken. Even now Interior is failing to enforce compliance on other drilling rigs, including at least one deep water rig with a similarly poor safety record.
Bottom line is that we cannot trust anything coming out of Ken Salazar's mouth, and he should be forced to resign forthwith, if not included in the criminal investigation.
The US Government continues to downplay the severity of this crisis.