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What i wanted to ask you about next. bp and this relationship to the release of al megrahi, what do you know? what evidence exists that there was some type of relationship that bp had influence, possibly, on that release? what do you know? >> well, what we know is that bp hired and used a former mi-16 british intelligence officer to speak to the former justice minister of great britain, jack straw, for the purposes of saying that, look, the deal between bp and libya is in danger if you don't get this prison transfer agreement approved. now, it is hard to believe -- and that jack straw ultimate...

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Reconsider that. >> shepard: major, there is no question. in fact, u.k. officials have admitted that bp did lobby on behalf of prisoners. they deny trying to get megrahi freed. >> that's right. they lobbied on behalf of prisoner exchanges they said that was before the agreement was reached about megrahi and they say because scotts agreed on compassionate grounds. dealing with prisoner transfers the two don't match up. bob menendez the new jersey democrat is uncertain and he wants to know more. here is part of my interview with him earlier today. >> bp's specific role in this and their admissio...