Rick Outzen has scored again at The Daily Beast with BP Oil Spill Coverup

While officials claim most of the oil from America’s worst-ever spill has disappeared, fishermen hired by BP are still finding tar balls—and being instructed to hide their discoveries.

Two weeks ago, as federal officials prepared to declare that some three-quarters of the estimated 5 million barrels of oil released into the Gulf over three months had disappeared, Mark Williams, a fishing boat captain hired by BP to help with the spill cleanup, encountered tar balls as large as three inches wide floating off the Florida coast.

Reporting his findings to his supervisor, a private consulting company hired by BP, the reply, according to his logbook came back: “Told—no reporting of oil or tar balls anymore. Don’t put on report. We’re here for boom removal only,” referring to the miles of yellow and orange containment barriers placed throughout the Gulf.

BP has been controlling the information flow since the beginning and the Feds have let them get away with it. That’s why the numbers for dead birds and sealife are so low, people aren’t allowed to report the real numbers. BP brought in people from outside, their own contractors, to control the numbers and made local workers sign non-disclosure agreements. They have been suppressing the real numbers since the beginning.

According to the Pensacola News Journal the Republican candidate for the US Senate doesn’t see drilling off the Florida coast as a problem – Rubio: Offshore drilling could be good for state

Framing it as an issue of energy independence and national security, U.S. Senate hopeful Marco Rubio said Tuesday that offshore drilling isn’t a dead issue for Florida.

Rubio spoke to about 50 supporters at McGuire’s Irish Pub in Pensacola, touching on issues ranging from the BP oil spill and health care to religious freedom and immigration.

This is why there has to be an amendment to Florida’s constitution: the politicians just refuse to give up on ideas that will bring them a lot of money. It’s as if the lost tourist and fishing seasons never happened, and oil isn’t still coming ashore along the coast. You just can’t get through to them.

Oil is sold on the world market to the highest bidder because the US doesn’t control its supplies, multinational corporations do. How does that improve our energy independence or security?