>>Coast Guard says it took too long to announce size of oil spill
San Francisco Chronicle - 2 hours ago
As oil contaminated more beaches and birds throughout the Bay Area, Coast Guard officials today admitted they took too long to notify the public about the skyrocketing size of the ship-fuel spill but defended their response to the mess.<<
See... the coast guard works for Homeland security who works for the President - it may take a day or two but they will get there.
What’s really too bad about that is that the “delay” in the announcement to the media about the size of the spill was a totally unacceptable five hours.
Five hours?
This is reason for outrage?
The gear was there and the cleanup was underway. Maybe they were busy getting real response going instead of chatting with reporters, who so far as I know, aren’t cleaning up anything.
Five hours is too long to let the *reporters* wait? How do they say that with a straight face?