Criminal Probe of Gulf Spill

This didn't take long.  The NYT is reporting that the Justice Department is opening a criminal probe of the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico.  The first paragraph hints at the reason:  "The Obama administration said Tuesday that it had begun civil and criminal investigations into the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, as the deepening crisis threatened to define President Obama’s second year in office."

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