Looks like BP's control over this White House goes pretty deep!
THE US government secretly advised
Scottish ministers it would be "far preferable" to free the Lockerbie
bomber than jail him in Libya.
Correspondence obtained by The Sunday Times reveals the Obama
administration considered compassionate release more palatable than
locking up Abdel Baset al-Megrahi in a Libyan prison.
The
intervention, which has angered US relatives of those who died in the
attack, was made by Richard LeBaron, deputy head of the US embassy in
London, a week before Megrahi was freed in August last year on grounds
that he had terminal cancer.
The document, acquired by a
well-placed US source, threatens to undermine US President Barack
Obama's claim last week that all Americans were "surprised, disappointed
and angry" to learn of Megrahi's release. more========================>