started working way too close with big oil. in fact, as the washington post is reporting, as you have seen, they gave categorical exclusion, meaning they weren t checking for some of the environmental measures mms on this very rig they were supposed to. why be so cozy with this industry you re supposed to be regulating? because i think we were in a recession, starting with the beginning of the obama administration, april 2009. for a minute, people thought the obama administering might be a little stricter environmentally on offshore drilling but they weren t. they continued bush policy. a couple of months ago, mms has a new head, lisa birnbaum, there s this thought they would clean out the corruption, talking about the denver office, problems of getting perks for the job, there was starting to be enforced, and then this oil