BUSINESS — BP CONTRACTOR: ‘WHAT THIS COMPANY IS DOING TO THIS COUNTRY RIGHT NOW IS JUST WRONG’: A former contractor has come forward to denounce oil giant BP and the “cutthroat individuals” running the oil disaster response. On Friday, contractor-turned-

whistleblower Adam Dillon told New Orleans television station WDSU that he was fired “after taking photos that he believes were related to the use of dispersants and to the cleanup of the oil.” As a BP liaison, he had rebuffed reporters’ attempts to observe cleanup operations in Grand Isle, LA, in June, before being promoted to the BP Command Center near Houma, LA. At the command center, BP manages the private contractors who are running practically every aspect of the spill response. Dillon, a former U.S. Army Special Operations soldier, “has lost faith in the company in charge,” stating that BP’s “bottom line is just about money.” “There are some very cutthroat individuals,” he said. “They’re not worried about cleaning up that spill as it is.” He decided to go public because “he placed his oath to his country over and above any loyalty to BP,” adding that “what this company is doing to this country right now is just wrong.” Before he was fired, Dillon was “confined and interrogated for almost an hour.” WDSU’s Scott Walker will air more of his interview with Dillon tonight. His troubling firsthand account joins other reports from the likes of wives of Gulf Coast fisherman and independent scientists who are breaking the media blackout on BP’s private army of contractors.

source: thinkprogress.org