McClatchy Newspapers: The Minerals Management Service, the beleaguered regulator caught in the crosshairs over its faulty scrutiny of BP’s runaway oil well in the Gulf of Mexico , has been lax in its inspections of deep-sea drilling, an independent watchdog said Thursday. Mary Kendall , the Interior Department’s acting inspector general, told a congressional committee that the MMS has been historically lenient on enforcing regulations, has an undertrained staff and has a “dearth” of regulations on how to …