year, where we had to deal with the largest oil spill in history. i know some of the fishermen on the gulf coast haven't forgotten. and what we learned from that disaster helped us put in place smarter standards of safety and responsibility. for example, if you're going to drill in deepwater, you've got to prove before you start drilling that you can actually contain an underwater spill. that's just common sense. >> just common sense. we learned from that disaster. we learned our lessons, president obama is saying. that's why the administration has started issuing new permits for deepwater drilling. we learned and now it's safer. i don't actually think that is true. the reason why is because of information that we have reported on this show. what we have discovered would seem to prove the president's assurances about learning from the bp disaster and higher safety standards, what we have reported seems to indicate the