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Hearings on BP Disaster Canceled As Witnesses Say They Won't Show

LA Times (Jul 20 2010)

None of the five Transocean employees called to testify at today's hearing of the U.S. Coast Guard-Interior Department about the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion agreed to come, calling in sick or pleading the Fifth Amendment. Testimony from the officials, who include two top BP officials who were on the rig on the day of the explosion, "would shed light on what happened in the crucial hours before the explosion."