Posted on 05/27/2010 11:42:27 AM PDT by NoLibZone
Under intense pressure to show that President Obama is taking action on the oil spill crisis, White House officials Thursday made clear that the top oil regulator at the Department of Interior had been forced out.
Elizabeth Birnbaum, the director of the U.S. Minerals Management Service, was given the opportunity to work elsewhere in the government but resigned instead, officials said.
Birnbaum, who took the helm of MMS on July 15, had spent most her Washington career as an environmental advocate, working either for the government or nonprofit groups.
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When people know too much...they have to be eliminated.
...and the wheels on the bus go “bump, bump, bump”!
But, but ... BHO just said that he didn’t know anything because she had resigned.
deck chair rearranging on the Titanic, ala the Obaba administration
... and that it was the previous administration’s cozy relationship with the oil companies! One of 0’s own was at the helm? How could that be?
haaa hahahaha
0bama, 0competence
Maybe she could have been Senator from PA?
Maybe she could have been Senator from PA?
How about secretary of the Navy? I hear that job is dangled around as bait?
Birnbaum is 0bama's scapegoat. Here's what Karl Rove had to say about the Dodd/Pelosi/0bama attempt to blame this on Bush ...
Did she issue the standard “I want to spend more time with my family” excuse?
Of course the Bamster knew nothing about it at his news conference.
Look, those appointments are supposed to be like the presidency; paychecks and perks without any real responsibility. Who knew?
They used to call Bill Clinton Slick. Barry should be called “The Slick” from now on.
Is she the one taking the hit for approving the BP out of process plan that likely blew the well up?
As Hugo Chavez says, give me someones neck to choke. Chavez is great with these do nothing public lynchings.
She's a player, not.
The Bush Administration uncovered a scandal in Denver, finding MMS employees accepting favors and partying a little too hearty with industry people. The same stuff that was recently uncovered in N.O. In January 2009, Secretary Salazar tried to grab credit for the bust and said he was doing a thorough review of the Minerals Management Service for being too close to the oil industry.
U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Thursday that he has ordered a re-examination of the scandalized Interior Department division based in Lakewood, including why the U.S. Justice Department did not pursue more criminal prosecutions.
Two convictions resulted from a wide-ranging inspector-general inquiry that last year exposed improper relationships between Minerals Management Service employees and energy firms, in addition to self-dealing by some staffers.
"There's a new sheriff in town," Salazar said during a news conference at the MMS complex. "We will be visiting with the new U.S. attorney general and take a new look at it."
http://www.denverpost.com/ci_11586212?IADID=Search-www.denverpost.com-www.denverpost.com
Birnbaum is the Democrat political hack appointed to do Salazar's promised re-examination of MMS. This disaster is on the "new sheriff's" watch. Guess he turned out to be more like Barney Fife than Wyatt Earp. If Salazar really did inherit a problem at MMS, he knew about it but "Sheriff Ken" did nothing about it despite his promise to the contrary in January 2009.
This entire disaster seems to be traceable to one person from BP who at the last minute demanded a change of procedure that caused the blowout. Someone needs to find out just exactly why this person made this demand at the last minute and how come it was not overruled.
A know-nothing, forced to resign from a government job for which she had no qualifications. Sounds like Hussein lost a typically valuable employee.
Somebody should be shot for allowing her to be appointed there.
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