Department of Homeland Security to take control of spill response website

07-06-2010 • Blacklistednews.com/ & Bloomberg.com

The Department of Homeland Security wants a one-stop shop for information that is completely overseen by the government as it settles into the long-haul of dealing with the response to the disaster. The U.S. Coast Guard falls under Homeland Security's authority. BP and the federal government are part of a unified command that is working together to try to contain the oil gusher, but the government has been directing BP at every turn. A DHS spokesman told The Associated Press on Sunday that the joint relationship won't change when the website is given a dot-gov address instead of a dot-com address. But who can post information to the site would change. Details are still being worked out. The spokesman, Sean Smith, said the government wants to be as transparent as possible and increase Americans' access to information.