The White House allowed BP to hide its video feed of a gushing oil pipe in the Gulf of Mexico from the public for three weeks, all the while that same video played live in the White House Situation Room, ABC reports.

This startling revelation comes just as Obama prepares to get really angry in public about the spill – just in time to cover up his administration’s collusion with BP to hide the true extent of the massive disaster in the Gulf.

Where were all the government engineers and environmental scientists who must have known about the dangers and risks of deepwater drilling? The Times reports the answer: they were muzzled by pro-drilling managers up and down the Administration and afraid to speak out or lose their jobs.

A brief look at what’s happening in the news on the morning of May 14th, 2010.

BP exec worries he will not be allowed to fulfill his crude destiny

The Yardbirds featuring Jimmy Page — I’m A Man.

Grifterina tries to inject herself into Chicago politics. Epic FAIL.

Economist Jamie Galbraith, along with Dean Baker and friends, are to the deficit hawks and their scare mongering what the skeptical and ultimately correct McClatchy reporters were to Dick Cheney’s fabrications about Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction and links to al Qaeda. We’re listening to the wrong “experts,” again.

The broken oil pipes of the sunken Deepwater Horizon are pouring 70,000 barrels of oil into the waters of the Gulf of Mexico daily, according to a scientist who analyzed the video of the pipe released by BP. At 42 gallons per barrel, that’s 2.9 million gallons of oil every day, or the equivalent of the Exxon Valdez every four days.

Blue Dog Caucus founder and former Oklahoma Congressman Bill Brewster’s firm Capitol Hill Consulting Group was hired to lobby lawmakers by Transocean, owner of the failed Deepwater Horizon drilling rig.

It’s ultimately a sad, adolescent view of manhood — Christians as macho soldiers — that reduces men to testosterone-fueled, war-fighting machines.