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Words of its critics, rubber stamps the oil industrys action and unable to enforce safety regulation. in 2000, they issued a safety alert calling for offshore drillers in the u.s. to have an additional backup system called and acoustic switch that could prevent oil blowouts like the one in the gulf. they went so far to call it a quote essential component. just three years later after complaints from the oil industry, mms determined it wasnt so essential after all, saying it was too costly and ef...

Imagine how things could be worse for the mns. its 1700 employees are supposed to regulate the oil industry but a growing chorus says its nothing short of a disaster. >> its very clear you have a dysfunctional agency. you cant trust them. they showed theyre too cozy with industry. >> reporter: too cozy indeed. a year ago, an agency found more than a dozen ethical failure, some having sex and drug use with employees. >> they thought partying and expensive tickets to hotel rooms somehow made its e...

Theyve shown that theyre too cozy with industry. >> reporter: too cozy indeed. two years ago internal government investigation discovered ethical failures by a dozen mms employees. some were even having sex and using marijuana and cocaine with oil company employees. >> it was very clear, they thought that partying, drinking, accepting expensive tickets and hotel rooms, somehow made it easier for them to understand the business of how much ore and oil and natural gas was being taken out. >> repor...

It really happened during the bush years of late, mms really 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 werent even checking for some of the environmental measures, mms, on this very rig, the deepwater horizon rig they were supposed to. >> why be so cozy with this industry youre supposed to be regulating? >> because i think we were in a recession, starting with the beginning of the ob...

Harm and writes about the crusade. forget about the drug use and drinking they report, and the report last month, makes it sounds like mms, these watchdogs designed to regulate the industry basically is more concerned with the health of energy companies than the environment? >> no question about it. mms is part of the interior department. we think of interior, national park services or yellow stone and yosemite or u.s. fish and wildlife trying to manage birds and game in this country. mms has to...

Spill happened. so now mms is on the hot seat. you will have to scrap the organization and rebuild it from the ground up. >> we will have more with professor brinkley after the break including his take on the white house slapping down former fema head michael browns conspiracy claim, brown believing the white house wants this disaster to spread. the question, how many people on the terrorist watch list could walk into gun shops and buy firearms and explosives? 1 in a thousand? 1 in 10? how abo...

Them honest." >> reporter: its hard to imagine how things could be worse for the mms. its 1700 employees are supposed to regulate the oil industry but a growing chorus says its nothing short of a disaster. >> its very clear you have a dysfunctional agency. you cant trust them. they showed theyre too cozy with industry. >> reporter: too cozy indeed. two years ago, an agency found more than a dozen ethical failures, some having sex and drug use with company employees. >> they thought partying and ...

Worse than we think it is. we dont know, it seems to me, what oversight, if any, they had over bp in those early day, though the coast guard was on the scene, yon at what level the epa was overseeing it? do you know that? >> to a degree i know it. because this is such a politicized atmosphere. people have to understand, president obama has been for offshore drilling, for it in the 2008 campaign, just weeks before the bp oil spill, he was encouraging more oil exploration and possibly offshore dri...

Called it unlikely. when bp sought for the psych, mms went along with it and gave the company a categoriry call exclusion from more strenuous environmental impact study and one executive says they are common. >> once you dig into it, they are treated with kid gloves in every respect. they are the least regulated industry from an environmental point of view, in the country. >> obviously, they will argue. >> they cant. >> reporter: we asked mms about the oversight over the wells. in a statement, t...

Started working way too close with big oil. in fact, as the "washington post" is reporting, as you have seen, they gave category call exclusion, meaning they werent even checking for some of the environmental measures, mms, on this very rig, the deepwater horizon rig they were supposed to. >> why be so cozy with this industry youre 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 though...