The head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is reaching out to the presidential oil spill commission to clarify what the White House calls misleading claims about the federal response to the disaster.
“NOAA Administrator Dr. [Jane] Lubchenco will send a letter today to the commission ensuring that they have an adequate understanding of what was happening in that process at that time,” White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Thursday.
The letter to the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling follows Wednesday’s release of draft findings by the commission staff about the White House spill response.
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