Mole: Is BP Misleading the Country?

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Apparently there’s a mole working for BP – an inside source that has been talking to Mother Jones about how the public story of the ongoing oil spill in the Gulf has routinely differed from the actual situation on the ground.

There aren’t tons of revelations to be found in the most recent mole piece – though no doubt the Mother Jones reports will keep flowing – but most interesting is the way in which the storyline being fed to the media (and the general public) is apparently deviating from what’s being told to the BP crews on the scene around Louisiana.

Reporters are told they can’t access certain areas due to poor road quality, but BP vehicles are then supposedly driving around freely.

BP says that dirtied beaches have been cleaned, just as whole new waves of oil allegedly crash ashore – out of view from reporters.

Even when the public was being told that the “top kill” procedure was starting to work a couple weeks back, the company was telling its own workers early on that it was failing.

Is any of this shocking? Or even reliable? Who knows. But it does add to the general storyline now circulating through some circles that BP is holding back key information, about the ongoing crisis in the oceans. If this mole is real, and eager to talk, it will be interesting to see what Mother Jones publishes next.