The U.S. Interior Department said on Wednesday its embattled Minerals Management Service will be broken up into three separate divisions, as part of an effort to restructure the way the department handles offshore energy production.
link: Louisiana shore sees heavy oil as BP prepares plug - Yahoo! News
It seems like after 9-11 the big solution, bureaucratically speaking, was to combine a whole bunch of agencies into one big super agency called Homeland Security, whereas here, after BP's oil blowout in the gulf, the solution is to break one agency into three smaller parts.
Increasingly, this sounds to me like rearranging deck chairs.
In fact the procedure here...
Obama plans to create a commission to investigate the cause of the spill, evaluate industry practices and study government oversight.
...is to just hunker down until the thing blows over, the same technique that's working so well with the Wall Street meltdown, the auto industry bailouts, the so-called long war, and countless other scandalous (OMG!) events of the recent decade or two. Or three. Or maybe forever.
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