Fox Business Anchor Suggests Administration May Have Let Oil Rig Leak Before Acting

"The question is, did they let this thing leak? I mean, BP said maybe 1,000 barrels a day, it went to 5,000. Did they let it leak a little bit and say, 'Boy, I don't know.' The conspiracy theorists would say, 'Maybe they'd let it leak for a while, and then they addressed the issue.'"

May 3, 2010 at 5:39 pm - Fox News
Dateline: New York, NY
swizzle   May 3rd, 2010 - 5:46 pm

Fox Business Anchor is sofa king we todd ed

jim   May 3rd, 2010 - 5:51 pm

More reasons why I don’t waste my time on Faux News.

Keith   May 3rd, 2010 - 5:52 pm

There is a video showing that they were well aware of the spill and potential effects “from day one”. Probably just generic incompetence, laziness, and apathy so common in bureaucracies! But nothing bad will ever happen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LHRzxgAxRo

erp   May 3rd, 2010 - 5:52 pm

Had to wait until it got to the beaches where everybody could see the big bad oil making a mess. Nothing to be gained by cleaning it up while it was still 30 miles away.

TheyHaveNoIdeaHowPowerfulWeAre!   May 3rd, 2010 - 6:01 pm

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Bingo   May 3rd, 2010 - 6:10 pm

Obama ordered that the oil well be sabotaged to help bolster his long-term plan of nationalizing the oil industry.

Educate yourselves   May 3rd, 2010 - 6:11 pm

The pressure from this strike was so powerful that the best technology was not able to contain it – they will never cap it – we’ll be lucky if methane hydrates have not been released in any amount.

The Deepwater Horizon floating rig, which BP leases, found oil beneath 5,000 feet of water and 13,000 feet of rock when something went awry April 20
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/03/AR2010050301669_3.html?hpid=topnews

Something whent awry – oh yeah.

the devil himself   May 3rd, 2010 - 6:20 pm

What a far out ridicules theory. Come on, considering the value of oil coupled with the expense of drilling, no greedy suit would treat an oil leak like ‘its gonna cure itself’.
These guys would sell their own mother for a buck.

Faux new is just adding grist for the rumor mill–can be dangerous-

hola amigo   May 3rd, 2010 - 6:26 pm

I think they were right in their report. I think this is the Obama’s Katrina — he was distracted by the AZ law and may Day protests and the WHCP dinner. He dropped the ball big time, plus he had just come out in favor of drilling the month before — ooops!

American   May 3rd, 2010 - 6:26 pm

“Never let a national disaster go to waste” Rahm Auerbach.
The O-Team needs this to continue the fundamental transmogrification of America.
We are turning our southeast shore black. Hmm hmm hmm.

bic   May 3rd, 2010 - 6:28 pm

Obama flat footed big time. Had just endorsed more drilling and didn’t know which way to go. Got big bucks from BP, too. How’s that going to look?

mikemc1970   May 3rd, 2010 - 6:28 pm

This guy must have made a good point. The trolls are thick tonight.

Hypocrites   May 3rd, 2010 - 6:28 pm

What a silly theory. Who knows, next people will say Bush blew up the twin towers.

Fred   May 3rd, 2010 - 6:29 pm

Obama dithering again.

bigScrotum   May 3rd, 2010 - 6:30 pm

As a former marxist i can say that the Obama administration is phony and loves money more than Oprah. They got big bucks from BP, along with a lot of dems, so they are so screwed. They got caught with their hands dirty.
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ObamaMakesAmerica'sButtBleed   May 3rd, 2010 - 6:30 pm

There is no doubt Obama’s team let the oil leak before taking action. The question is whether is was purposeful, to create another crisis to leverage more money and more freedoms from the people, or was it just more ineptitude, more incompetence, by the boob cluster-fork Obama administration. Nobody trusts Obama, and it doesn’t register much on the scale of unbelievabilty that Obama’s team would create another crisis like they did with the economy, with the housing industry, in order to justify further cuts in energy production and higher taxes on consumers. We know it is coming, an emergency tax for a slush fund for enviornmental disaster mitigation.

markoe   May 3rd, 2010 - 6:49 pm

i would not put it past this admin to sabbatage the rig just to further the libtards agenda and make the land of the free… less free

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fastfacts   May 3rd, 2010 - 6:54 pm

http://www.americanparchment.com has a video that shows the Administration knew from the very start that the well would leak. According to an article on their site it talks about how there have been 509 explosions on oil rigs since the year 2000 and some oil leaks like this have happened before but never with so much media coverage because they have capped the well much earlier. Under Bush there were quick responses.

The administration took almost two weeks to really act. NOAA knew there was a leak from day one and had written a report to Obama from the very get go and they never act. That is what the video shows. They also created a time line for the Oil Response at: http://www.americanparchment.com/library/gulf_oil_spill.html but to get the video and what is happening today you have to go to their front page. This does explain that this is Obama’s Katrina and he did a worse job than Obama but should we completely blame the presidents for what the locals in Katrina hit zone should have done or BP should have done? If yes than blame both Presidents equally, if no than the left must take back all they have said.

Eileen for Freedom/Liberty   May 3rd, 2010 - 7:08 pm

America…this is the most evil, most hypocritical and lying administration that has ever led this great Republic…I would put nothing…nothing past these Chicago mafia ‘wanna bees’!

They want to stop ‘off shore’ drilling…because if it continues and increases, America will be self-sufficient in energy fuel and not be dependent on the Islamic brothers of the puppet of the Bilderberg…Obama the Bush!

This should not put a stop to using our own shores to drill for oil to sustain our nation…China and Russia are doing it in our own backyard…but we cannot?

Will not a leak in their drilling systems impact our shores and not theirs?

Get real….this is nothing more than a ploy to keep us stagnant and owing to Saudi Arabia and other Islamic countries seeking to destroy America from within.

With the help of the first ‘radical’ Muslim President of this Christian nation…they are getting it done!

Fight on…America…our very future…depends on winning this war against evil!

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IMPEACHMENT OR THE ‘ORIGINAL’ RECORDS OF BIRTH…IT IS JUST A MATTER OF TIME…AND 2010 WILL BE THE TIME!

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hola amigo   May 3rd, 2010 - 7:18 pm

Only Barack Obama and John McCain got more than Mary Landrieu from BP in campaign contributions in 2008. Delay? You bet they delayed lashing out to BP because the president got a lot of cash in his stash from BP. That is why he is the magic Negro!

bic   May 3rd, 2010 - 7:20 pm

“”Only Barack Obama and John McCain got more than Mary Landrieu from BP in campaign contributions in 2008. Delay? You bet they delayed lashing out to BP because the president got a lot of cash in his stash from BP. That is why he is the magic N*gro!”"

So you’re saying Obama was on the take to the mean and evil oil campanies? Even though he was playing the marxist card? Doesn’t that make him a big fat marxist hypocrite?
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claspur   May 3rd, 2010 - 7:38 pm

Author of the new book, Manchurian Candidate, Aaron Klein is on WIND am , on Savage right now.
He’ll be on Hannidy(FOX) tomorrow night.

Spanky1   May 3rd, 2010 - 7:38 pm

The only “Day One” I care about is January 3, 2011.

That’s when the 112th Congress will be sworn in, marking the beginning of the end for the Democrat Plantation.

jim   May 3rd, 2010 - 8:10 pm

It’s not the job of the government to stop the leak!!! That responsibility belongs to British Petroleum!! Get real – if the government took over you guys would be foaming at the mouth “They’re taking over the oil”. Does the government have expertise in oil drilling?? Beyond that – given the problems with stopping the leak – high seas, the initial fire, explosion and destruction of the platform, the missing (and later lost) people, – if the government took over the problem right at the outset any failure to stop the leak would belong to the government. Of course YOU WOULD REALLY LOVE THAT- MORE TO BLAME OBAMA WITH! Either you guys are stupid or you reasoning is really faulty.

FrankG's couch   May 3rd, 2010 - 8:17 pm

Oil rig blows up Obama administration does nothing for days, now Democrats are saying no new drilling. How much are they going to make on cap and trade? There are not a lot of dots to connect.

Is the failure to act incompetence or part of a larger plan to enrich the green movement which funded Obama’s election and makes Obama and Gore very rich.

My trust level with Obama is to the point where I believe the exact opposite of what Obama said.

Love Chicago   May 3rd, 2010 - 8:24 pm

The only “Day One” worth mentioning is: January 3, 2011.

That’s when the 112th Congress will be seated, signaling the end of the Democrat Plantation.

ladydee1213   May 3rd, 2010 - 8:53 pm

Dont you remember the reports at the very start of this..THAT the TANKER wasnt LEAKING??? Remember those?? Suddenly BOOM its a major spill…. Remember barack wasnt even gonna go there… he was not even planning a trip there…AND we all know how he likes to TRAVEL…
Did anyone else find this funny…HECK EVEN ALGORE was MIA.

Lynn   May 3rd, 2010 - 8:55 pm

Why such a long wait? It doesn’t make sense. If he were on it I think the news media that is on board with Obama would want to show everything he was doing so he could look good. If he intentionally didn’t do what he should have done and for the purpose of furthering his agenda, then it isn’t stupidity its dereliction of duty.

MN   May 3rd, 2010 - 9:22 pm

Interesting. I wouldn’t be surprised it they waited on purpose–OR–if they are just that incompetent. Humorous cartoon on the oil spill titled “The President’s Dipstick” at http://drawfortruth.wordpress.com/2010/05/01/dipstick/

hypocrites   May 3rd, 2010 - 11:34 pm

That stupidity of that statement even transcends ‘mission accomplished’ and is glaringly ludicrous

Even if Obama’s feet dragged, what would be the incentive for BP to hinder immediate action.

Loss of human life, irreparable environmental damage to wildlife, fishing and coastal shores-
expense of clean up, penalties and criticism-
ponying up for compensations and lawsuits supersede any less worthy endeavor-

common sense prevailed

Terry   May 3rd, 2010 - 11:46 pm

You are learning well grasshoppah.

Of frig gin course they did – to justify and build support for his “civilian force”.
Is anybody listening – oh yeah. Fox News.

American   May 4th, 2010 - 12:10 am

Where is Celine Dion screaming about the children being raped, the shots fired that could be heard in Las Vegas?
Where is Sean Penn and his trusty rifle and leaky rowboat?
Where are all the “singers” singing to help stop the oil spill?
Where is Biden? Where is the O-Team? Where is the media checking FEMA and looking for murders in the large arenas?

This is Team-O’s Katrina to the nth power. Latest is that the current may bring the slick around Florida and up the East coast, and it will continue to lead for over a month.

The O-Team has fixed one thing – the blame. “The buck stops over there” says the administration – pointing to England.
What’s next? Golf, hoops and some surfing. Good intellectual activities to prepare for a hard day’s teleprompter reading.
It’s easy to be president. Anyone can do it, and is.

james   May 4th, 2010 - 2:57 am

agree w/bollin. this commie regime by any means necessary. van jones and his so called green jobs would benefit from sabotage.can not by any means put anything pass this commie thug administration.

O'Really?   May 4th, 2010 - 7:01 am

It’s funny how the Dems and Obama are recipients of BP largess and yet it is the GOP who seems to be opposed to any restrictions and government control over the oil companies and industry. The “drill, baby, drill” mentality that led to this disaster is in the GOP, not the Democratic Party. Where is the quid pro quo?

And as far as this idiot commentator is concerned, he has absolutely nothing to back up his moronic statements. It now looks like it may take weeks or even months to cap this thing. Whose fault is that, smarta$$? If the Administration caused this to put a stop to off shore drilling, they have already made their point. Dumping millions of barrels of more oil into the ocean wouldn’t make sense UNLESS you couldn’t stop it in the first place. And if that were true then they didn’t “let it happen”, did they? DUH?

Maybe if we had MORE regulations and government “interference” in some of these businesses the equipment and procedures to prevent and fix this sort of mess would have been in place. Did you ever think of that?

jim   May 4th, 2010 - 8:40 am

FOR THOSE OF YOU (MOST OF YOU) WHO SEEM TO IGNORE THE NEWS, THIS IS FROM TODAY’S OMAHA PAPER AS REPORTED BY THE LOS ANGELES TIMES.

“THE GIANT BRITISH OIL COMPANY BP LLC SAID MONDAY THAT IT IS ‘ABSOLUTELY RESPONSIBLE’ FOR STOPPING THE LEAK IN THE GULF OF MEXICO, CLEANING UP THE OIL ON THE WATER’S SURFACE AND ANY RESULTING ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE.”

The report goes on to say that Transocean Ltd. operaterd the Deepwater Horizon rig that exploded and sank April 20, triggering the spill. Bp leased the rig and contracted with Transocean to drill the well.

Hayward (the BP chief executive) also said “It was their rig and their equipment that failed, run by their people with their processes.” He goes on to say “But our responsibility is the oil, and the responsibility to clean it up. And that’s what we’re doing.”

WHAT PART OF THESE DIRECT QUOTES DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND??

the devil himself   May 4th, 2010 - 10:28 am

Just a reminder-

Those who play the blame game for the rig explosion and the absurdity that Obama is responsible for it-

worship at the feet and suck up the other end of the neon capitali$t god$- the oil execs-
that they either lustfully defend or demonize ruthlessly-depending on which dragon needs to be slayed-

But the creme de la creme–they voted for bush twice and mccain once-

need you question their cerebral flux further?

BHO-R-POSPOTUS   May 4th, 2010 - 8:55 pm

You last two clowns don’t like having what you shoveled out for years dumped back on you, I see. Great! You set the precedent, we’re playing along with the new Democrat Marxist Party rules of engagement. Obama was responsible to respond and mitigate damge to the US from the oil spill. It is his oil, it was his ocena floor leased, it is his country it is damaging. Obama played while the oil sprayed. Obama is an incompetent affirmative action nincompoop, stacked on his Marxist punk foundation.

H2K   May 5th, 2010 - 1:36 pm

….and out comes Rham under the shadow of another “crisis”…

dwells75   May 5th, 2010 - 3:53 pm

W’s ignorance and irresponsibility in appointing a friend with no qualifications to head FEMA as well as completely ignoring the problem for as long as he did had a cost in HUMAN LIVES. I know you don’t care, since they were poor people, but it is disgusting to compare that major failure and it’s cost in human lives to this oil spill.

DannyBoy   May 7th, 2010 - 8:53 am

@jim jimmie little jimmy…what ever you call yourself….YOMMA’S OFFICE WAITED 9 DAYS…to respond …..if you watched FOX NEWS you would have known that stupid….but you’d rather watch Christine Matthews and Richie Maddow in your under wear down by your ankles….wake up girl….Yomma has done nothing for you and never will he is out to destroy the US piece by piece….one of the scumbags was on vacation and the other stiff was giving out awards….and yes BP should clean it up but we need BOOTS on the ground or water ….not having Robert Bibbs saying keep the Boot on BP throat….the boot is on the throat of Mississippi, New Orleans and Florida….wake up girlfriend….the White House is a joke being run by Clowns you elected….

SteveP   May 12th, 2010 - 6:59 am

Little bit nutty there Eric. The rig going under 2 days after the blast snapped the pipe and caused the leaks. Until then the oil was burning off through the top. Then the leaks were actually in 3 places in the pipe which took a while to find since it is a mile of pipe in complete darkness. They had to use ROVs to view the whole pipe. Go back and watch the video and news reports on Youtube. The Coast Guard said they could see no oil coming out of the riser a day or two after, until the ROVs found the leaks. That was about day 6.

Of course it was stupid to assume there was no leak since it had been feeding the fire for 2 days, but that’s what the Coast Guard said. Doesn’t sound sinister as much as typical government work. There was no oil coming out the end so they thought it had been shut off. But there’s a dead man switch to trigger the shut off if the connection to the rig is broken so it wasn’t crazy to assume that had triggered. Of course it hadn’t but at most there was only a few days of slow reaction, not 9.

keeemo   May 12th, 2010 - 10:43 am

Feeding the crazies. That is the Fox brand they are trying to build.

HERO OF THE DAY   May 12th, 2010 - 8:43 pm

Obama’s administration has done everything they can to appear suspicious in this, photo-ops, news conferences, finger pointing, and blaming the evil oil empire. I love how this guy turns every tragedy into his opportunity to CON-TROL something.

Adolph Hitler would be so very proud of this young protégé.

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