Cheney Had Their Back

Former EPA Criminal Division Special Agent Scott West led a 2006 investigation of British Petroleum following a major oil pipeline leak in Alaska’s North Slope that spilled 250,000 gallons of oil on the Alaskan tundra. In a wide-ranging interview with Truthout West describes how the Justice Department (DOJ) abruptly shut down his investigation into BP in August 2007 and gave the company a "slap on the wrist" for what he says were serious environmental crimes.

Transnational corporations are like sharks. We don't blame sharks for hunting. That's just what they do. Part of government's role is to protect us from the sharks. But when the government just throws us to the sharks, then they just eat us up. That's why people like Rand Paul and Dick Cheney and all the other deregulating Republicans are unfit to serve in government and why we always get chewed up when they do.