"Way More" oil gushing out AFTER the fix?

Just one nimute:

Dr. Leifer said in an interview on Monday that judging from the video, cutting the pipe might have led to a several-fold increase in the flow rate from the well.

“The well pipe clearly is fluxing way more than it did before,” said Dr. Leifer, a researcher at the University of California, Santa Barbara. “By way more, I don’t mean 20 percent, I mean multiple factors.”

It looks like Obama may be responsible for making the oil leak much worse.

Is Dr. Leifer delivering the benefit of 20/20 hindsight, or were there government scientists predicting a "way more" increase in the flow even before the pipe was cut? Were these pessimists over-ruled by a larger, more vocal, or better connected group of scientists arguing the "No worries" viewpoint? Were they over-ruled by politicos who needed to say they were Doing Something? Was the decision to cut the riser made by BP, the Coast Guard, the White House, or by whom? This BP press release says the plan was reviewed by the Coast Guard and the DOE experts, but where did the buck stop?

At his May 27 press conference, Obama claimed that every major BP step was US Government approved:

But make no mistake: BP is operating at our direction. Every key decision and action they take must be approved by us in advance.

Then make no mistake - the President had pessimistic scientists on his team who thought snipping the riser might dramatically increase the flow rate of the leaking well, or else he got advice from a group of erring optimists (or Dr. Leifer is an Erring and Lonely Pessimist). If the pessimists were outspoken, presumably they were overruled by other Administration officials or scientists, not BP.

He said it, I didn't.