BIG BLACK: Journalists Threatened With Arrest For Filming BP Oil Washing Up On Gulf Shore

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HUFFINGTON POST: A startling new image released by NASA today shows a massive column of oil extending out Southeast towards the open ocean.

RELATED: When CBS tried to film a beach with heavy oil on the shore in South Pass, Louisiana, a boat of BP contractors, and two Coast Guard officers, told them to turn around, or be arrested. “This is BP’s rules, it’s not ours,” someone aboard the boat said. Coast Guard officials told CBS that they’re looking into it. As the Coast Guard is a branch of the Armed Forces, it brings into question how closely the government and BP are working together to keep details of the disaster in the dark. MORE

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