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WikiLeaks: U.S. had warm words for ex-Guantanamo detainee

A U.S. consular official in Luxembourg gave a former Guantanamo detainee warm praise earlier this year in a cable to Washington made public Monday by the website WikiLeaks. "Mr. Begg is doing our work for us," the cable said, "and his articulate reasoned presentation makes for a convincing argument." | 11/29/10 20:41:00 By - Mark Seibel

Testimony: Poor cementing at BP well symptom of wider problem

Drilling engineers and government officials are almost lackadaisical in their approach to the critical steps of closing down an offshore oil drilling rig and sealing it, two days of testimony before a presidential commission investigating last spring's explosion of BP's Deepwater Horizon drilling rig indicate. | 11/09/10 19:10:00 By - Mark Seibel

Appeals court blocks order to end 'don't ask, don't tell'

A panel of 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday blocked a U.S. district judge from demanding that the military enforce her order against the Pentagon's 'don't ask, don't tell' policy that bars gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military. | 11/01/10 19:34:09 By - Mark Seibel

Report: Halliburton knew BP well's cement likely unstable

Houston-based Halliburton knew that the cement it was using to seal BP's Deepwater Horizon oil well was unstable, but did not tell BP or act on the information internally before the well blew up April 20, the staff of the presidential commission investigating the disaster reported Thursday. The findings add to the growing body of evidence that safety procedures intended to head off such accidents were ignored or overlooked. | 10/28/10 16:45:52 By - Mark Seibel

Study slams confusion, waste in BP oil spill response

A second oil spill report released Wednesday, entitled "Decision-Making in the Unified Command," portrays the cleanup effort as confused, wasteful and often ineffective, and offers thinly veiled criticism of some of the key figures in the effort, including Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal. | 10/06/10 21:02:00 By - Mark Seibel

Long saga of blown-out BP well in Gulf is coming to an end

BP announced this morning that its engineers will soon begin pumping cement into the Deepwater Horizon oil well in the Gulf of Mexico through a relief well and will have completed sealing it by Saturday. That will kill for good a deep-sea well whose explosion 150 days ago killed 11 offshore drilling rig workers and sparked an economic and environmental catastrophe whose size is still being calculated. | 09/17/10 09:20:32 By -

Weather delays recovery of BP well's blowout preventer

High seas at the site of BP's Deepwater Horizon oil well in the Gulf of Mexico will delay for at least two to three days the recovery of the well's failed blowout preventer, Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said Monday. The weather also will push back the completion of a relief well that Allen has said for months is the only way to ensure that the Deepwater Horizon well is sealed permanently. | 08/30/10 13:58:56 By -

Evidence experts to oversee blowout preventer recovery

A criminal evidence recovery team from the Justice Department will be on hand Saturday as BP begins the multi-day task of disconnecting the failed blowout preventer from its Deepwater Horizon oil well in the Gulf of Mexico and lifting it to the surface. | 08/27/10 19:34:36 By - Mark Seibel

Fort Hood shooting revealed multiple military security lapses

The November 2009 shootings of more than 40 people by an Army psychiatrist at Fort Hood, Texas, revealed a wide range of security lapses at U.S. military bases, including a failure to consider the possibility that a threat might come from an "insider," according to a Pentagon report released Friday. | 08/20/10 19:48:00 By - Nancy A. Youssef and Mark Seibel

BP told to preserve blowout preventer as evidence

The Obama administration on Thursday ordered BP to remove the failed blowout preventer from its Deepwater Horizon well in the Gulf of Mexico and preserve it as likely evidence in civil and criminal investigations. | 08/19/10 16:33:00 By - Mark Seibel

'Bottom kill' of BP's Gulf well now put off till after Labor Day

A relief well that government officials say will finally finish off BP's Deepwater Horizon well in the Gulf of Mexico won't be completed until after Labor Day, weeks later than officials had been predicting. The delay is necessary in part because officials want to preserve the blowout preventer currently atop the BP well as possible evidence in federal investigations into what caused the well to explode on April 20. | 08/19/10 13:02:05 By - Mark Seibel

BP will try to cement Deepwater Horizon well today

BP said it would begin pouring cement into the Deepwater Horizon well today in a procedure that could lead to the permanent sealing of the well. National Incident Commander Thad Allen gave permission for the process after a day of monitoring the well indicated no problems from the successful "static kill" that used heavy drilling mud to drive the crude oil back into the rock formation from which it had surged 106 days earlier. | 08/04/10 20:48:46 By - Mark Seibel

BP well in Gulf killed with heavy mud in 8-hour operation

BP announced early Wednesday that a so-called "static kill" had succeeded in forcing the Deepwater Horizon well's oil back into rock formations 18,000 feet below the sea's surface. "The MC252 well appears to have reached a static condition," BP said in a news release, calling the well by the Mississippi Canyon lease number it was assigned when BP bought the rights to drill from the federal government in 2008. | 08/04/10 05:13:10 By - Mark Seibel

Next attempt to seal BP well in Gulf likely to begin Tuesday

Officials for BP have moved to Tuesday the likely start for their next effort to kill the Deepwater Horizon well in the Gulf of Mexico. BP Senior Vice President Kent Wells said Friday that the delay by a day in the so-called "static kill" was necessary because debris was found at the bottom of a nearby relief well. | 07/30/10 17:27:17 By - Mark Seibel

Drilling rig heads back to BP well site after storm weakens

Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said Saturday that he expected the Development Driller III, the rig that's drilling the primary relief well for the leaking BP well in the Gulf of Mexico, to be back on site within 24 to 36 hours. | 07/24/10 13:24:59 By - Mark Seibel

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