cozy were with the very oil industry it is supposed to regulate and let them do things like this particular deep water horizon oil exploration rig without the necessary environmental scrutiny or public comment. and because of that, they say, this now an environmental catastrophe spreading all across the gulf coast. the president said those days are now over. >> it seems as if permits were too often issued based on little more than assurances of safety from the oil companies. that cannot and will not happen anymore. to borrow an old phrase, we will trust but we will verify. >> shepard, the minerals management service used to have inspector general to police these things. president obama took that inspector general, put him in charge of what? the stimulus law. there isn't one there now. just enacting one, environmentalists say that's another problem. >> there is also some controversy about missing information from a safety test. >> a safety test conducted in