FUBAR in the Gulf - Part 2

Glenn Greenwald posts an mp3 of an interview with Mother Jones reporter Mac McClelland. He promises a transcript to follow.

In this interview, Ms. McClelland reports on her efforts to try to cover what's happening in the Gulf and constantly being thwarted by police and Coast Guard in cahoots with BP to keep reporters at bay. She says the Coast Guard informed her they had 20,000 people working on the clean-up of a group of islands off the coast, but when she asked them for a breakdown of the figures, they told her they didn't have that information – the 20,000 figure was "BP's". She actually did manage to get onto one island, on which a clean-up laborer told her there were only 60 workers on that particular 8-mile-long island. And she also found out that on the island that was the source of AP's first photos of those horrendously crude-covered birds - a 5-mile long island – there are only 30 workers. Mac tells Glenn that from all appearances, it doesn't look as if anybody is doing much of anything to clean up what's already there, and there's more oil on the way. She also says that (a la Coast Guard ignorance) it doesn't appear as though the federal government is providing oversight.