transocean and halliburton now claim the been fits in the 400 or so lawsuits filed thus far can't sue them yet. bp's court filings say the fishermen, seafood processors, hotel owner, restaurateur, oyster farmers and the like must first apply to relief from the official bp compensation fund, that they must play that game of bureaucratic red tape before they can begin to sue. even the lawyers are saying they should wait until next march before which test cases should proceed to trial and which should not. that's moving too fast for bp. and now we know why bp agreed to the $20 billion fund. because it buys them time for the public to forget, for the remaining oil to dissipate, for them to potentially lose internal memos and e-mails and text messages and other evidence of their culpability, and especially time for the victims to run out of money with which to pay their lawyers. bob dudley of bp, never did figure out what the p really stands for. but the b is clearly for