Report critical of government response to gulf oil spill

The administration underestimated the amount of oil flowing into the Gulf of Mexico after the BP disaster as well as the effect of the spill after the damaged well was capped, independent government investigators say in a report.The Obama administration consistently low-balled its estimates of how much oil was pouring into the Gulf of Mexico from BP's runaway well and offered rosy assessments of the spill's impact after the well was capped, independent government investigators said in a bluntly critical report Wednesday.

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