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Problem with the drawings, they were the right the day the rig started up and they're still right. and you know, the truth is, keith, that his other employees, other than me, barry duff for one, have said unequivocally and in writing that there are engineering -- the engineering is not complete, it could result in catastrophic error, operator errors, which is what we've seen on deepwater, and his own federal judge, judge sparkin, who's the head of his ombud's office, has said in a letter and in a press release to the a.p. that he did complete an investigation, which he is supposed to do becaus...

Not been approved or handed over to operations. the current procedures are out of date. the risk in turning over drawings to the people out on the rig running the atlantis, that are not complete are, number one, the operator, the bp operator will assume the drawings are accurate and up to date. this could lead to catastrophic operator errors due to their assuming the drawing is correct. turning over incomplete drawings to the operator, the bp operator. for their use is a fundamental violation of basic document control. they are the most current version. currently there are hundreds if not thou...

Needed to run the platform safely. bp has done two investigations into those assertions and says it's nothing more than a minor internal process issue that has no bearing on the safety of the platform. as back as far as 2008, bp knew it had a problem, incomplete drawings of the rig's internal structure but bp worried that turning such documents over to people requesting them could lead to what one official called catastrophic operator errors, because they would assume they were correct. and why doesn't the interior department step in and shut down atlantis while bp gets its paperwork in order?...

>> why can't you go out to the rig, look around and see if everything is in order or not? >> for one thing, bp atlantis goes 7,000 feet into the sea and even deeper where the oil is. a lot of these components aren't visible from the platform. >> bp says its reports or inaccurate engineering documents aren't true and that they had up-to-date drawings needed to run the platform safely. bp has done two investigations into those assertions and says it's nothing more than a minor internal issue that has no bearing on the safety of the platform. as back as far as 2008, bp knew it had a problem, inco...

Internal issue that has no bearing on the safety of the platform. as back as far as 2008, bp knew it had a problem, incomplete drawings of the rig's internal structure but bp worried that turning such documents could lead to what one official called catastrophic operator errors because they would assume they were correct. why doesn't the interior department step in and shut down atlantis while bp gets its paperwork in order? press secretary for the department said they could not comment because the matter is under litigation. in a court filing, ken salazar says the investigation of the claims ...