enhance the photo. they say they had no intention to mislead anybody. it is not the only time this has happened. here is another example. taken from inside a helicopter. this one has been altered. it s not clear what bp or the photographer thought the gain was in either case. the altered pictures have been removed. transparency seems to take a hit and bp s credibility does, perhaps, as well. senate foreign relations committee has asked bp s tony hayward to testify next week at a hearing in washington. scotland s justice minister turned down the same invitation. this is not a hearing about the spill disaster in the gulf. it s about the release last year of the only man convicted in the lockerbie bombing incident. he had been serving a life sentence in a scottish prison. did bp this is the question. did bp influence the decision because it stood to lose a $900 million exploration deal with libya? that s the allegation on the table.
enhance the photo. they say they had no intention to mislead anybody. it is not the only time this has happened. here is another example. taken from inside a helicopter. this one has been altered. it s not clear what bp or the photographer thought the gain was in either case. the altered pictures have been removed. transparency seems to take a hit and bp s credibility does, perhaps, as well. senate foreign relations committee has asked bp s tony hayward to testify next week at a hearing in washington. scotland s justice minister turned down the same invitation. this is not a hearing about the spill disaster in the gulf. it s about the release last year of the only man convicted in the lockerbie bombing incident. he had been serving a life sentence in a scottish prison. did bp this is the question. did bp influence the decision because it stood to lose a $900 million exploration deal with libya? that s the allegation on the table. jill dougherty investigates.
both pictures show engineers at work at the control center. this is the original, showed what the room actually looked like before the photo was fudged. bp initially posted this one. as you can see in that photo, all the video monitors are filled with images, unlike the original where three were blank. staff photographer made them look like they were displaying underwater shots to, quote, enhance the quality of the photo. they say they had no intention to mislead anybody. and the altered photo was taken off bp s website as soon as it was discovered. it is not the only time this has happened. here is another example. taken from inside a helicopter. this one has been altered. it s not clear what bp or the photographer thought the gain was in either case. the altered pictures have been removed. transparency seems to take a hit and bp s credibility does, perhaps, as well. senate foreign relations committee has asked bp s tony hayward to testify next week at a hearing in washington. scotl