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Enforcement and regulation of bp on the atlantis project. you know, 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 saying that your allegations are unfounded and that the platform had final documentation in place before it started operating. >> and my answer to that would be that when that attorney wrote that letter in january she deceived congress. i think at bp...

Do you think they were rubber stamping what bp wanted them to? >> exactly, anderson. i think they were very negligent in their enforcement and regulation of bp on the atlantis project. you know, 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 that the platform had final documentation in place before it started o...

In fact, bp said mms gave them a safety award. what is your feeling about mms' performance in all of this? do you think they were rubber stamping what bp wanted them to? >> exactly, anderson. they were negligent in the enforcement and regulation of bp on the atlantis project. you know, 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 saying that your allegations ar...

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...

Me is that i've seen -- i tried for a year and a half to get this problem fixed. i knew from my experience as a project controls engineer that this was a deadly recipe for problems and for catastrophic errors. and it just didn't happen. the management tone there was let's take the shortcut. let's do the engineering as fast as we can and forget about the normal things you should do. >> this rig is still operating this whole time. mms was out, inspecting the rigs and they didn't manage to find any of this. in fact, bp says mms gave them a safety award. what's your feeling about mms's performance...