My first real beef w/ Obama?

What explanation is there for being so lenient on BP after the spill?  Why are we accepting the 5000 barrels/day figure?  Why are we not forcing them to do testing and monitoring, funding university scientists, and making all data publicly available?  The only reason I can see is that BP doesn't want information collected that could be used against it in court, but why is that the American People's problem?

"Tensions between the Obama administration and the scientific community over the gulf oil spill are escalating, with prominent oceanographers accusing the government of failing to conduct an adequate scientific analysis of the damage and of allowing BP to obscure the spill’s true scope."

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/20/science/earth/20noaa.html?hp