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Environmental assessment that drilling posed no significant risk to wildlife. don't tell that to the critically endangered kemp's ridley sea turtle or the brown pelican or the threatened lagerhead turtle. >> why did they not fulfill their role as a watchdog? they were supposed to be the voice of reason, the voice of caution decide to turn the other way and let mms and bp run roughshod? >> reporter: what does the government have to say for itself now that its presumed advocate for fish, wildlife and endangered species has been caught on paper playing yes man to the very agency that cleared the ...

>> reporter: the paper trail starts in 2007. it was that year before the drilling was about to begin in the gulf that fish and wildlife service wrote this letter, concurring and agreeing with the minerals and management service environmental assessment that drilling posed no significant risk to wildlife. don't tell that to the critically endangered kemp's ridley sea turtle or the then endangered brown pelican or the threatened loggerhead turtle. >> why did they not fulfill their role as a watchdog? why did the fish and wildlife service, who was supposed to be the voice of reason, the voice of ...