Despite repeated requests from media organizations and other interested observers to view BP's video of oil gushing from its leaking well in the Gulf of Mexico, BP had refused to release the footage -- until Wednesday, when it released a short 30-second clip under intense pressure.
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The video was recorded May 11 and is only 30 seconds long, covering just 0.0015% of the time in the three weeks since the leak began flowing. Because BP has refused to make public its entire library of video, there has been no public independent review of the leak, including questions about whether and how the leak may be evolving. It's a decent start, but BP still has 99.9985% further to go.
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