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Criminal Investigation?  BP is a convicted serial environmental
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Why hasn't the government launched a criminal investigation into
BP?     "If the company behind this disaster was Texaco or
Chevron I would have likely waited a couple of days before I
started to talking to people," West said. "And the reason for
that is those corporations do not enjoy the current criminal
history that BP does."  West, who Truthout profiled in an 
investigative report last week about the Bush administration's
apparent scuttling of West's criminal probe into BP in 2007, was
harshly critical of the way the disaster has been handled by the
government. He said in an interview that BP and the oil
conglomerate's executives are "known as liars" and the fact that
the government has treated "and continues" to treat the company
with kid gloves is "outrageous