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To: bentway who wrote (572663)	6/20/2010 12:55:12 PM
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Obama is the single largest recipient of BP cash. then.... "Mr. Salazar’s job is not in immediate jeopardy, and the president values the work he has done and will continue to do at the Interior Department, said Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary." last June: Fox in the Hen House: BP Exec at MMS — By Kate Sheppard\| Mon May. 24, 2010 3:02 PM PDT In the weeks since BP's Deepwater Horizon well started spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, there's been increasing attention to the "cozy" relationship between the Minerals Management Service (MMS) and the oil industry it's supposed to regulate. How cozy? Just last summer the Obama administration tapped a BP executive to serve as a deputy administrator for land and minerals management. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar last June appointed Sylvia V. Baca to the post, which did not require Senate confirmation. The appointment follows eight years at BP.