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Bob Graham, co-chairman of the commission investigating the BP oil spill, said federal officials underestimated their challenge just as George Custer did at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

    Spill response compared to Custer

    The Obama administration's repeated low estimates of the huge BP PLC oil spill undermined public confidence in the government's entire cleanup effort, leaders of a White House-appointed commission declared at an investigatory hearing Monday. One likened the mistakes to Custer's disastrous decisions at Little Bighorn.

  • This undated handout photo provided by Samantha Joye, UGA Department of Marine Sciences, shows a layer of oil on a sediment core. Researchers are finding oil dripping "all over the place" on the Gulf of Mexico sea floor, some as much as two inches thick. A University of Georgia scientific cruise is collecting at least ten instances of what appears to be fresh oil on the sea floor emanating out from the site of BP oil rig disaster.  (AP Photo/Samantha Joye)

    Where's the oil? On the Gulf floor, scientists say

    Far beneath the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, deeper than divers can go, scientists say they are finding oil from the busted BP well on the sea's muddy and mysterious bottom.

  • Graphic shows a breakdown of what happened to the oil from the Deepwater Horizon explosion according to the National Incident Command

    Looking for the oil? NOAA says it's mostly gone

    With a startling report that some researchers call more spin than science, the government said Wednesday that the mess made by the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is mostly gone already.

  • Looking for the oil? NOAA says it's mostly gone

    With a startling report that some researchers call more spin than science, the government said Wednesday that the mess made by the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is mostly gone already.

  • Graphic shows a breakdown of what happened to the oil from the Deepwater Horizon explosion according to the National Incident Command

    Looking for the oil? NOAA says it's mostly gone

    With a startling report that some researchers call more spin than science, the government said Wednesday that the mess made by the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is mostly gone already.

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