June 2 (Bloomberg) -- Vice President Joe Biden rejected criticism that the Obama administration hasn’t reacted forcefully or swiftly enough to the oil spill at a BP Plc well in the Gulf of Mexico.
“We were there the first day -- the first morning after that well had blown and that platform collapsed,” Biden said in an interview with Charlie Rose on PBS. Obama “mobilized everyone in the White House, in the West Wing, made it clear that every single asset of the federal government should be made available.”
Biden said that “from my perspective,” if the administration made any mistake, it was that “we haven’t communicated clearly enough.”
Obama has come under attack from critics, including some Democrats, who say the administration hasn’t responded adequately to the spill, which began after an April 20 explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon rig which London-based BP leased from Switzerland’s Transocean Ltd.
