BP is a class act all around. When they’re not destroying the global environment, they’re strong-arming governments to release terrorists found guilty of murdering innocent civilians. And to think these executives are supposed to be part of respectable society. Even worse, our governments let them call the shots so often including in the Gulf of Mexico. Senator Schumer deserves credit for asking BP to immediately back away from their $900 million Libyan investment.

The oil giant BP faced a new furor on Thursday as it confirmed that it had lobbied the British government to conclude a prisoner-transfer agreement that the Libyan government wanted to secure the release of the only person ever convicted for the 1988 Lockerbie airliner bombing over Scotland, which killed 270 people, most of them Americans.

The admission came after American legislators, grappling with the controversy over the company’s disastrous Gulf of Mexico oil spill, called for an investigation into BP’s actions in the case of the freed man, Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi.

The former Libyan intelligence agent was released and allowed to return to Libya last August after doctors advised the Scottish government that he was likely to die within three months of advanced prostate cancer. But nearly a year later, he remains alive, and free, in the Libyan capital, Tripoli.