http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704490204575278952784008676.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_LEADNewsCollection
5 minutes, do you think they even had time to register what that change actually was before they decided to go ahead and allow BP to do it?
Yeah I'd say at this point that there is no doubt a criminal probe needs to be started.
Just a week before the Deepwater Horizon exploded, BP PLC asked regulators to approve three successive changes to its oil well over 24 hours, according to federal records reviewed by the Wall Street Journal.
The unusual rapid-fire requests to modify permits reveal that BP was tweaking a crucial aspect of the well's design up until its final days.
One of the design decisions outlined in the revised permits, drilling experts say, may have left the well more vulnerable to the blowout that occurred April 20, killing 11 workers and leaving crude oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico.
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..The Minerals Management Service approved all the changes quickly, in one instance within five minutes of submission
