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wordpix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 09:54 PM Original message |
Gagging order on scientists probing dolphin deaths as U.S. builds criminal case against BP |
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eowyn_of_rohan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 09:59 PM Response to Original message |
1. it had BETTER be because there is a federal criminal investigation into BP-nt |
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liberation (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-27-11 02:37 AM Response to Reply #1 |
23. I doubt it, the only party benefiting from this gag order is BP. |
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indepat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-27-11 09:15 AM Response to Reply #23 |
27. Hear! Hear! That only BP benefits should be perfectly obvious. |
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Uncle Joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-27-11 01:19 PM Response to Reply #23 |
30. I agree on all counts, liberation. |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-27-11 07:54 PM Response to Reply #23 |
53. Agree -- this is solely for protection of BP -- and to keep further questions from being asked ... |
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Poll_Blind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 10:06 PM Response to Original message |
2. Call me a cynic but here's how I imagine this sort of thing would go down: |
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wordpix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 10:08 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. your scenario more possible if a repuke wins the WH |
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Webster Green (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 10:13 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. Why? |
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wordpix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 10:27 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. not a big supporter of O at this point BUT |
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Webster Green (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 10:33 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. I suppose I will be doing the same. |
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CountAllVotes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 10:55 PM Response to Reply #8 |
13. Criminals! |
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xxqqqzme (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-27-11 05:24 PM Response to Reply #8 |
44. Holding our votes hostage |
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tabasco (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-27-11 06:23 PM Response to Reply #44 |
48. LOL |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-27-11 08:03 PM Response to Reply #44 |
55. You might as well be saying that they are holding your "conscience" hostage -- can they? |
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pocoloco (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-27-11 06:55 PM Response to Reply #8 |
51. Why should he or any of the other repug enablers change |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-27-11 08:01 PM Response to Reply #8 |
54. You mean you agree with Emmanuel ... "Dems have no place to go" -- ???? |
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liberation (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-27-11 02:44 AM Response to Reply #7 |
24. Technically Bush's DOJ did investigate too. Remember Scotter Libby? |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-27-11 08:19 PM Response to Reply #7 |
57. Keeping the scientist quiet is to keep the scope of the |
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emilyg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 10:58 PM Response to Reply #5 |
14. Yes. +1 |
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Frisbee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-27-11 02:25 AM Response to Reply #3 |
21. Don't you mean stays in the WH? n/t |
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naaman fletcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-27-11 02:33 PM Response to Reply #3 |
35. You need to get out of the Dem-GOP way of thinking |
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chervilant (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-27-11 03:06 PM Response to Reply #35 |
37. Picture |
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Raksha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-27-11 04:09 PM Response to Reply #37 |
42. I can picture that scenario very easily--too easily. |
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wordpix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-28-11 08:36 AM Response to Reply #35 |
60. Actually, I'm hoping Bernie Sanders will run ---although he's older, he's a great leader |
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blackspade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 10:13 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. We have a winner! |
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ArcticFox (654 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 10:49 PM Response to Reply #2 |
9. Exactly |
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glinda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 10:49 PM Response to Reply #2 |
10. Tragically true I am sure. Am sick of this crap from them. |
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truth2power (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 10:53 PM Response to Reply #2 |
12. Exactly what I was thinking before I even got to your post... |
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BobbyBoring (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-27-11 12:55 PM Response to Reply #12 |
29. When people are dying |
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USBlues (16 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-27-11 02:32 AM Response to Reply #2 |
22. Exactly... |
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leveymg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-27-11 04:07 PM Response to Reply #2 |
41. That's the way this normally works. If they wanted to bust BP, they could have done it last year. |
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IDemo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-27-11 06:47 PM Response to Reply #2 |
50. Congress creates legislation declaring dolphins a terroristic species |
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McCamy Taylor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 10:18 PM Response to Original message |
6. "Federal criminal investigation" equals "cover up of corporate crimes" |
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polichick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-27-11 11:43 AM Response to Reply #6 |
28. Unfortunately that's about what it amounts to - justice be damned! |
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austinrick (1 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-27-11 03:53 PM Response to Reply #6 |
39. Just one more reason I no longer recite the Pledge of Allegiance. |
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alp227 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 10:52 PM Response to Original message |
11. I never knew the Daily Mail could do a serious enough story like this to be frontpaged |
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midnight (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 11:06 PM Response to Original message |
15. Those poor scientists... |
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RKP5637 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 11:25 PM Response to Original message |
16. The gov. wants CYA, probably these scientists wouldn't go along with an outright cover-up. n/t |
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Michael J (4 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 11:37 PM Response to Original message |
17. Corruption |
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avaistheone1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-27-11 01:22 AM Response to Original message |
18. k&r |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-27-11 01:29 AM Response to Original message |
19. THIS DOJ is investigating BP? |
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indimuse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-27-11 02:18 AM Response to Original message |
20. KNR! |
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xchrom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-27-11 06:27 AM Response to Original message |
25. what kind of 'investigation' is going on? |
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fasttense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-27-11 07:47 AM Response to Original message |
26. There they go looking backward at all those dead dolphins. n/t |
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pam4water (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-27-11 03:45 PM Response to Reply #26 |
38. ROFL! K&R |
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felix_numinous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-27-11 01:38 PM Response to Original message |
31. I guess corporations get to curtail free speech |
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bengalherder (718 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-27-11 01:47 PM Response to Original message |
32. Said scientists should leak info. |
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Corruption Winz (581 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-27-11 02:05 PM Response to Original message |
33. This, realistically, can only mean one of two things... |
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davidthegnome (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-27-11 02:42 PM Response to Reply #33 |
36. Experience and intelligence |
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felix_numinous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-27-11 02:23 PM Response to Original message |
34. ooops wrong thread!! |
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femrap (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-27-11 04:07 PM Response to Original message |
40. May a shark bite |
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Overseas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-27-11 04:23 PM Response to Original message |
43. Oh No! An ounce of compassion might seep into the equation ! |
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truedelphi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-27-11 06:29 PM Response to Reply #43 |
49. Excellent thoughts on the matter. |
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wordpix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-28-11 08:39 AM Response to Reply #43 |
61. +1 meanwhile, the blowout preventers used by all the drillers don't work |
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OwnedByFerrets (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-27-11 05:31 PM Response to Original message |
45. This makes me so fucking angry. |
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Cetacea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-27-11 05:32 PM Response to Original message |
46. It SHOULD be treated like a murder case. They are our aquatic equals. |
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chervilant (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-27-11 06:13 PM Response to Original message |
47. hmm... |
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RUMMYisFROSTED (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-27-11 07:02 PM Response to Original message |
52. Will they also demand that BP stop it's PR ads? |
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crim son (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-27-11 08:14 PM Response to Original message |
56. Criminal because dolphins are dying or because dolphins dying |
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Macoy51 (25 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-28-11 06:55 AM Response to Reply #56 |
58. Thank Goodness for Cheap Thumb-Drives |
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nalnn (528 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-28-11 08:32 AM Response to Original message |
59. Locally |
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wordpix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-28-11 08:41 AM Response to Reply #59 |
62. very important that locals take photos, get video before evidence shipped off |
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nalnn (528 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-28-11 01:07 PM Response to Reply #62 |
63. Good advice |
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