"Drill Baby Drill!.." (Chants from the RNC...) : : : : : : : : : : From McClatchy:Oil companies gave sex, drinks, gifts to federal overseersInterior Department officials, while handling billions of dollars in oil and gas royalty payments, engaged in illicit sex with industry employees and accepted meals, drinks, ski junkets and golf outings from major oil companies, internal investigators reported Wednesday.Interior Department Inspector General Earl Devaney's release of three reports, which stem from a $5 million investigation dating to 2005, implicated at least 19 current and former employees of the Minerals Management Service in unethical relationships with industry, frolics that included marijuana and cocaine use.The reports raised new concerns about the management of programs that collect $8 billion in annual revenue from offshore and onshore mineral leases. Democrats seized on the report to bolster their efforts to counter growing pressure to open up more areas to oil drilling."The allegations of illicit and unethical behavior detailed in the inspector general's report are directly related to the energy debate taking place in the Congress this week," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California said. "Little did we know how cozy the relationship between Big Oil and the administration's regulators have been."Brandishing a copy of the inspector general's report, Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., said Wednesday "It's bad enough that the government employees who oversee offshore oil drilling are literally and figuratively in bed with Big Oil, the rest of the U.S. government doesn't need to jump in bed with them."Read entire article...From CBS News: Sex, Lies And Big Oil?:[..] The allegations of bad behavior involve about a dozen government employees in Denver and Washington - workers who sell U.S. mineral rights to oil companies, which is one of the government's biggest sources of revenue besides taxes.They're supposed to be looking out for the taxpayers' interest.But according to the inspector general, the