Have you ever heard of people being sworn in to testify in a court of law, under oath? The people who were killed and the survivors of the explosion were not BP employees. Do you realize that? There are many parties to any potential lawsuit or blame in this accident. There are many ongoing investigations. The blow out preventer is still at the bottom of the ocean and part of the investigation is to recover it and determine what went wrong. Do you see how the whole process is undermining the judicial system?

God forbid you or the federal contractor you work for is ever involved some sort of incident based on human error and you are prosecuted before you are given the opportunity to present facts or allowed to investigate what happened. How does that assist in any kind of learning process to make things safer? Notice I say safer, I don't say, so there will never be another accident. In the real world, nothing is perfect. Accidents happen. The best course is to understand how to do and make things as safe as possible. You know the saying, Learn from our mistakes. Let's make sure things are investigated first without knee jerk reactions to blame the person with the deepest pockets.