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And they should be. that's their, you know, requirement. >> bp addressed your concerns in january in a letter to congressional investigators and they say that your allegations are unfounded and that the atlantis platform had final documentation in place before it started operating. >> and my answer to that would be that when that attorney, westall, wrote that letter in january, she deceived congress. i think at bp you have this two-faced problem. you have the public face with the tony hayward's going out, saying everything is okay, the about pr groups and attorneys. three weeks ago, tony wrote...

Safety award. what's your feeling about mms's performance in all of this? do you think they were rubber stamping whatever bp want ed thm to? >> exactly, anderson. i think they were very negligent in their enforcement in regulation of bp on the atlantis project. we tried for a year and a half, my attorney and i both, to get the mms to take notice. they're just not checking these drawings at all, okay? and they should be. that's their, you know, requirement. >> bp addressed your concerns in january in a letter to congressional investigators and they say that your allegations are unfounded and th...

I was control supervisor for the atlantis platform, about 80 miles south of the deepwater. what i found was that bp is not completing their engineering. this is something i've never seen on any other major company i've worked for, engineering and owner companies. because of that, they've created a very dangerous situation, dangerous for the operators. because, you know, they don't have the latest information to shut down the rig in an emergency. very dangerous for the whole gulf. it's a time bomb waiting to explode. >> this comment that was in the original testimony that mr. hayward submitted ...

Outcome of multiple investigations, including the marine board. >> but during question time by the house panel hayward came off much like the gulf spill itself, elusive and highly frustrating. mr. hayward utterly failed to explain the rationale of key decisions, including whether such decisions were made to save time and money. hayward didn't remember or didn't know or didn't have a personal involvement in key decisions, he said. let's bring in as promised, kenneth abbott, former project control supervisor contracted by bp. mr. abbott has filed a lawsuit demanding the government shut down anot...

Marine board. >> but during question time by the house panel, hayward came off like the gulf spill itself. elusive and highly frustrating. he failed to explain the rationale behind key decisions, including whether such decisions were made to save time and money. hayward didn't remember or didn't know or didn't have a personal involvement in key decisions, he said. let's bring in as promised, kenneth abbott, contracted by bp. he has filed a lawsuit demanding the government shut down another bp oil platform in the gulf, which is risking yet another catastophe in the area. mr. abbott was laid off...