Greg Palast: Chelsea Manning and the Deepwater Horizon Deaths

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from truthdig:


Chelsea Manning and the Deepwater Horizon Deaths
Posted on Apr 19, 2015

By Greg Palast


Five years ago Monday, 11 men died on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig—despite Chelsea Manning’s effort to save their lives.

Let me explain.

The BP drilling rig blew itself to kingdom come after the “mud”—the cement used to cap the well—blew out.

The oil company, the federal government and the industry were shocked—shocked!—at this supposedly unexpected explosion in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

But BP knew, and Exxon and Chevron knew, and the U.S. State Department knew, that just 17 months earlier another BP offshore rig suffered an identical, disastrous blowout halfway across the planet in the Caspian Sea.

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But Pvt. Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning tried to warn us. The details of the Caspian Sea blowout off the coast of Baku, Azerbaijan, were revealed in the secret State Department cables Manning released in December 2010 through WikiLeaks. Cables from the U.S. ambassador relayed a summary of confidential meetings in which BP’s top Azeri executive confided that the big Caspian offshore rig suffered a “blowout” in September 2008, leading to the “largest such emergency evacuation in BP’s history.” Its likely cause: “a bad cement job.” ................(more)

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/chelsea_manning_and_the_deepwater_horizon_killings_20150418

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1. Hey, ya can't let a few deaths stand in the way of profits! Those blowout preventers cost money.