The Associated Press reports --"British Prime Minister David Cameron said Tuesday (yesterday) he would not order a fresh investigation into why a convicted bomber was set free or whether BP had a role in it. President Barack Obama stood by his new peer but said that "all the facts" must come out."

Right? If any one ever believed that Mr. David Cameron was going to reopen the matter of the release of the Lockerbie bomber, they had better check their brains, or loosen their hat bands because they are wearing their hats too tight. A proper inquiry could possibly expose Mr. Cameron, good buddy Edmund John Philip Browne, Baron Browne of Madingley, the former CEO of BP, who may or may not have done something that he shouldn't have, but is rumored to have had -- did have an interest in keeping a good British-Libyan relationship. BP had oil interest to protect, you know? Lord Browne was running BP in the days of discussions, prior to a decision on possible early release, and may have put a word or two, and possibly many more words in an ear or two, you know? Don't you think?

Here are the facts of the case as summarized by the AP: "The Libyan Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, was convicted for the 1988 bombing of a jet over Lockerbie, Scotland that killed 270 people, most of them American. The Scottish government released the cancer-stricken man on compassionate grounds last year, igniting outrage on both sides of the Atlantic. Bringing the matter to the fore again are accusations that BP sought the release of the convicted bomber as part of efforts to seek access to Libyan oil fields; BP has acknowledged that it urged the British government to sign a prisoner transfer agreement with Libya but says it never specified al-Megrahi's case. 'Any lobbying they might have done is an issue for BP, and an issue that they should explain themselves,' Cameron said flatly.The British leader said, though, that he has not see anything to suggest that the Scottish government was swayed by BP."

Lord Browne is a member of Mr. Cameron new government. He is Mr. Cameron "super-director" charged with injecting business ethos into the heart of government. You know, conservatives, Tories, like injecting business ethos into things.

I can imagine considerations were made from the prospective of Lord Browne's business ethos. Many business leaders make similar judgments, balancing lives on the scale of profit. Maybe somebody placed 270 human lives, mostly American, on the scale, and big Libyan oil profits on the scale, and made a judgment based on "business ethos" ?