US Representative Tim Griffin is Congressman to Mayflower, Arkansas.

The US Environmental Protection Agency considers the incident a "major spill," Exxon says.

A major spill and Griffin states pipelies are the safest method of transporting oil. That is amazing. The man has no conscience.

He stated pipelines are the safest method of transporting oil. Did he bother to sincerely understand the danger of these monstrosities? He is very misinformed and influenced by petroleum money.

How did he get into office? "Caging the system." An investigative reporter comes forward to talk about it. 

Mr. Griffin is not a reputable source of information. The information he puts forward is rhetorical and invalid. Pipelines are actually very dangerous and this is proof of it. Those lands are tainted for a very long time.

I am not being mean, I am being honest. I wish there was a US Representative for Mayflower, Arkansas that was honest, too.

GREG PALAST, BBC INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER: Glad to be with you again. (click here)

JAY: So you've been continuing your work on the pipeline bringing tar sands oil down to Texas.

PALAST: Yes, I've been slithering through that gooey tube and pulled out another little porker that was stuck in the pipe named--this one is a guy named Tim Griffin, Congressman Tim Griffin. And he is one of the most important congressmen in America that you've never heard of--and you're not supposed to.

JAY: Why?

PALAST: Timmy Griffin used to work for a guy named Karl Rove, known as "Bush's brain". And one of the things that the brain decided to do was that since Bush couldn't get elected by the voters, he has to be elected by voter manipulation. If you remember, of course, I reported, as we mentioned again last week, that Bush won Florida by having his brother, the governor, remove thousands of black voters from the voter rolls there. And that gave him the 500 votes he needed to seize the White House.

In 2004, the game continued with a new, sophisticated twist called caging. But what does this have to do with the pipeline and some guy named Griffin? The answer is: caging is a system, is a very sophisticated system for swiping tens of thousands of votes. What you do is you send letters to voters that you know are not living at their voting address. And when the letters come back undeliverable 'cause you said do not forward, you challenge the voters as a fraudulent voter.

Thousands of these letters went to African-American and Hispanic voters at the naval air station in Florida, Jacksonville, Florida....

...JAY: These letters were returned because these soldiers were overseas and had left their base....

...JAY: Yeah, get us back to Griffin....

...I then took it to a civil rights attorney named Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the dean of the law school at Pace University, and he said, quote, "Griffin should be in jail, and so should Rove." That's a quote from the son of the attorney general who wrote the law that would put them in jail, the Voting Rights Act of '65....

...So when we exposed Griffin's--what Kennedy called criminal activity--I'm not a criminal lawyer; he is--what he called criminal activity, when we exposed that, Griffin immediately had to resign his post....

...I have a little film of Griffin in tears.... 

...He waited a couple of years, and then he suddenly pops up running for Congress from Arkansas. Now, how does a guy with this record end up running for Congress? There's only one way to do it: on a big old pipeline of money, $167,000 from two guys named Koch, the Koch brothers Charles and David. They paid--they came up with $167,000 for an unknown, tainted candidate and washed him right into Congress.

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TIM GRIFFIN, U.S. CONGRESSMAN (R-AR): I rise in support of the Keystone XL Pipeline, as well as the underlying bill. The plot here is for jobs, American jobs. It's a no-brainer. Like most Arkansans, I support this pro-jobs project that will strengthen our national security by making us less dependent on Middle Eastern oil. Arkansas families and businesses are hurting due to high gas prices, and the Keystone Pipeline will bring an additional 1 million barrels of oil per day into the United States....