Bob Murray slithers back out of hiding

HUNTINGTON, Utah — Faced with a backlash over dimming hopes, a coal mine boss broke his self-imposed silence Monday to issue e-mails lowering expectations that six trapped coal miners will ever be recovered, dead or alive.

Bob Murray, chief executive of Murray Energy Corp., issued an initial statement that promised "we will not be deterred, and we will not leave this mountain until we find our people."

That was followed a few hours later by another release, saying: "We will not leave this mountain until we achieve a resolution to this tragedy."

The once-outspoken Murray has been noticeably absent from meetings with relatives and from news briefings since three rescuers were killed last week in a tunnel collapse.

Sonny J. Olsen, an attorney acting as spokesman for the families, said they were upset by his absence.

But on Monday night, he was spotted arriving at a church where some families were gathered. He did not immediately speak to reporters at the scene and it was not clear whether he planned to do so.

Murray's e-mail said the "efforts in the digging and recovering have left me such that I cannot be a good spokesman to the public media on behalf of our efforts to rescue the original six miners."

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Matewan

than to speak out and remove all doubt

"efforts in the digging and recovering have left me such that I cannot be a good spokesman to the public media on behalf of our efforts to rescue the original six miners."

It's always about him.

Not only was he very disrespectful to Speaker Pelosi, but he LIED to Congress about his safety record.

So, my question is- why is this man not facing federal charges?

(My guess is that if anyone bothered to dig, they'd find a lot of other things he could and should be prosecuted for).

His repeated lies about an earthquake causing the collapse were scurrilous.