Is BP Subject to a Senator's Vendetta?

[Pooky 3,825]

Senator seeks Lockerbie bomber whistleblowers

A US Senator investigating the 2009 release of the Lockerbie bomber has asked whistleblowers to step forward.

Sen Robert Menendez issued a public plea for people with inside knowledge of talks between BP and Libyan and British authorities to speak up.

Some US lawmakers suspect that BP had lobbied for the bomber's release, suggesting that it aided the energy giant's oil exploration in Libya.

The inquiry comes amid US anger over the BP oil spill in Louisiana.

Assuring confidentiality for sources, Mr Menendez asked also for behind-the-scenes information regarding Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi's medical condition.

Scottish authorities released Megrahi in August 2009 on compassionate grounds, citing terminal cancer which had left him just three months to live. Megrahi is still alive almost a year later.

The Scottish government has denied that it was under pressure from BP to release Megrahi and has defended the medical assessments of his condition.

The 1988 Lockerbie bombing killed 270 people, including 189 Americans.

BBC link

Senator Menendez is treading on dangerous ground by seemingly perpetuating his vendetta against BP and, to a lesser extent, the Scottish Parliament and the UK Government. His call for whistleblowers has all the hallmarks of someone who has no evidence to back up his assertions and is desperate to find something to make a case.

Not only is he doing everything, without one shred of evidence, to smear BP in the public eye even more so than their fustercluck in the Gulf of Mexico, but he is also trying to cast suspicion upon politicians of another country, and a country that has been the staunchest ally of the USA. Is this a game the current administration wants to play? When he turns up nothing, will BP have any recourse against the Senator for any financial ill effects this campaign of his might have?

[Captain Oates 911]

I think he should go into a city centre pub in Glasgow on a Saturday night and ask for whistle blowers..

[Pooky 3,825]

I think he should go into a city centre pub in Glasgow on a Saturday night and ask for whistle blowers..

He might get himself a Glasgow Kiss, or two, for his efforts