Oil Spill Investigation A 'High Priority' For Justice

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Source: NPR

s part of the U.S. Justice Department's investigation into the Deepwater Horizon explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, a federal judge in New Orleans recently created a security zone around the collapsed rig, the legal equivalent of taking yellow police tape and draping it around the watery crime scene.

Although the investigation is happening below the surface, there's a lot going on at the Justice Department.

"This investigation is a very high priority for the Department of Justice, and so senior officials up to the top ... are very involved," said Gary Grindler, acting deputy attorney general.

Over the past several months, Grindler, Attorney General Eric Holder and other senior Justice Department officials visited the Gulf to look at critical pieces of evidence, such as the four-story-high blowout preventer.

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[JDPriestly]

1. This is a physical crime. Maybe Holder won't walk away from this one

the way he has walked away from so many of the other crimes committed by the high and mighty.