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BP and US Government Regulators were Accomplices

The following are excerpts from a news story that details a laundry list of facts that show BP and US Government Regulators acting as accomplices in a series of safety violations that combined to reach a tipping point, leading to the worst oil spill in history and a thoroughly incompetent response to it:

[Originally posted on my personal blog at muralikd.blogspot.com, June 06, 2010]

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