It's been one month since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig blew up, and oil is still leaking at an astonishing rate. Entire state economies might be crushed, and whole ecosystems wiped out. So whose fault is it?

Chris Oynes, associate director for offshore energy and minerals management at at the Minerals Management Service—a.k.a. "the guy in charge of making sure what just happened doesn't happen"—is resigning after 35 years of not doing his job.