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AP: BP report blames itself, others for oil spill
Reuters: BP blames contractors for oil spill
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Probably got Moxley Carmichael doing the PR, gottem' gessin
They also got a target headline for the media pick up geographically and what they say in Washington might be different than what they say in Grand Isle, Houma, or New Orleans and within the media that support those locales.
Any way you cut it, nothing good about it other than the fact that the oil is currently not leaking from the well although that could change with another bad day in the Gulf.