Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil when it comes to oil company fraud

This administration will do anything to protect its buddies in the oil industry, even when it means turning a blind eye when the oil giants defraud the government:

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 — Four government auditors who monitor leases for oil and gas on federal property say the Interior Department suppressed their efforts to recover millions of dollars from companies they said were cheating the government.

The accusations, many of them in four lawsuits that were unsealed last week by federal judges in Oklahoma, represent a rare rebellion by government investigators against their own agency.

The auditors contend that they were blocked by their bosses from pursuing more than $30 million in fraudulent underpayments of royalties for oil produced in publicly owned waters in the Gulf of Mexico.

I suppose there's no real surprise here though. After all, look at everything Halliburton has gotten away with.