- ORANGE BEACH, AL -- While President Obama insists that the federal government is firmly in control of the response to BP's spill in the Gulf, people in coastal communities where I visited last week in Louisiana and Alabama know an inconvenient truth: BP -- not our president -- controls the response. In fact, people on the ground say things are out of control in the gulf.
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- Even worse, as my latest week of adventures illustrate, BP is using federal agencies to shield itself from public accountability.
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- For example, while flying on a small plane from New Orleans to Orange Beach, the pilot suddenly exclaimed, "Look at that!" The thin red line marking the federal restrictions of 3000 ft over the oiled Gulf region had just jumped to include the barrier islands off Alabama!
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- "There's only one reason for that," the pilot said. "BP doesn't want the media taking pictures ofOIL ON the BEACHES. You should....
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