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Coming out and saying the flow rate is irrelevant? that it doesn't matter to the effort or overall, how much oil is pouring out every single day. >> how do i say this delicately, let me think? he's lying. lying, lying, lying. the statute says if they show gross negligence it could be up to $4,000 a barrel fine. they first tell us -- i'm the worst lawyer in the world, but i think i could take on the bp legal team. 4,000 barrels a day. they started out saying it was 1,000. they're going to put new estimates, saying it's 80 to 100. what is that, $32 million a day. >> doug suttles in his own lette...

About the flow rate. he acknowledged in his letter to the coast guard, it is important to know. but publicly it's irrelevant. >> how long are we going to let them tell us what they're going to do. when is the government going to say, get out the way, we'll measure it. why are we letting bp still run the show? >> the story is saying the government wants them to put more instruments down there. >> right, new sensors in the new containment. >> why don't we just have someone go down and put the sensors and send them the bill. doug suttles is lying. he just out and out bold faced lie. he's lying, y...

Picayune" doug suttles said knowing how much oil is gushing out of this well is important. "the flow rate has never impacted the response. it's extraordinary imprecise and we took a view very early on, we didn't think you could do it. meaning measure the flow rate, and we didn't think it was relevant either." bp had always planned to overreact to the spill, planning for a worst case scenario. if that is true, how come they're still scrambling to get containment vessels here and boom and skimmers and just about everything else. to continue to claim it's just too hard to estimate the oil, and be...

The flow rate has never impacted the response. it's extraordinary imprecise and we took a view very early on, we didn't think you could do it. meaning measure the flow rate, and we didn't think it was relevant either." bp had always planned to overreact to the spill, planning for a worst case scenario. if that is true, how come they're still scrambling to get containment vessels here and boom and skimmers and just about everything else. to continue to claim it's just too hard to estimate the oil, and besides, it's irrelevant. and then on the other hand to have pushed a stunningly low estimate ...

Flow rates. he wrote to doug suttles, i'm concerned your current plans do not provide for maximum mobilization of resources to provide the needed collection capacity with revised -- consistent with revised flow estimates." that was admiral watson saying, they hadn't planned well enough to capture enough oil. what is truly stunning is doug suttles response two days later saying "we will continue to adapt our plans as more is learned about the flow rate from the well." they're going to adapt their plans as more is learned about the flow rate. but then he says the flow rate is irrelevant. doesn't...