Obama hides truth for political gain

Experts believe the US government is under-reporting the amount of crude left in the Gulf of Mexico after the disastrous BP oil spill for "political gains."

On Wednesday, soon after the completion of the static kill process of the BP ruptured well in the Gulf, the administration of President Barack Obama announced that only about 26 percent of the leaked oil was unaccounted for.

This is while according to the media reports up to 75 percent of the leaked oil is still in the sea.

Speaking to Press TV on Thursday, Allen Roland, the California-based online columnist, said that the US government is conducting "a massive cover-up" firstly, "for political reasons" and secondly, for saving the London-based energy giant BP.

"The thing is they don't care, because they want to get through the election," Roland said, adding that "it is a big bailout."

"BP is too big to fail as part of the Obama Administration, and a wonderful source of money coming in to them."

Roland said that the US government was not to let BP "go under", as the company "was another one conservative for President Obama in the last election.

He added that London-based the energy giant "provides 40 percent of the oil for the Pentagon."

Scientists believe that the distorted data provided by the Obama administration highly relies on assumptions and estimates with a significant margin of error to make the Gulf look as good as possible.

"There's a lot of . . . smoke and mirrors in this report," said Ian MacDonald, a professor of biological oceanography at Florida State University, according to a Washington Post report on Thursday.

"It seems very reassuring, but the data aren't there to actually bear out the assurances that were made."

Of the 4.9 million barrels (205.8 million gallons) that spewed out of the well into the gulf, only 827,000 barrels were siphoned to vessels on the surface.

The BP oil disaster, kicked off after an April explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig that killed 11 workers, has caused the worst environmental accident in the US and oil history.