President Obama used about an hour of his press conference yesterday trying to explain how - in spite of his handlers' having spent the past month trotting out the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the Commandant of the Coast Guard to be the faces of the Gulf of Ocean oil spill - that he, Barack Obama, had been personally on top of this situation from the moment the drilling rig exploded until that very moment.
Just prior to the presser, it was leaked that the head of the Minerals Management Service (MMS), Liz Birnbaum, was...











Tinkering With the Truth
Don't kid yourself. Liz Birnbaum was the Editor in Chief of the Harvard Environmental Law Review. She was appointed by Obama.