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"And someone who was on the job who can testify under oath as to what happened."

That is exactly what is happening, but not by subpoena. People who worked on the repairs (witnesses), stating depths of 6 foot voids in the main spillway, and 4 foot voids in the Upper spillway, are coming forward to others to get the information out there. These workers are afraid of retribution as they have asked for their names not to be revealed. But they are well known by the person who they revealed this information to. Scott Cahill has revealed this publicly, but is keeping the individual's names protected (i.e. people coming to him in confidence on the repairs & the details).

This also raises the question of the Independent Forensic Review Team. What will be in their reports? If there is supporting evidence that this "void filling" occurred, then they will need to address this evidence in their reports. OR will there be great pressure from DWR? OR will there be information that somehow is not "volunteered" to the Forensic Team?

Keep in mind the physical evidence has been pulverized in the recent blasting.

Are these DWR whistleblowers risking being sent to the Gulag? Have we all become so poor that losing a job is a life and death situation? Two answers: the East coast crime syndicate of former CIC’s might very well punish a whistleblower by death. And the financial abyss that everyday working Americans face is like the Great Depression when 25% of the able bodied were unable to find jobs. The recent 8 years on top of the 30 preceding set us up for this abyss where Americans keep their mouth shut like in any dictatorship. The evidence you've uncovered ER is heartbreaking. That all these men kept silent watching 17 years of dam failure. I just cannot believe that life has become so cheap that at they risk the death of thousands of lives to protect their own job.

Tonight there is a Flood Warning for the next two days for the Merced River coming out of Yosemite. Similarly they have had terrible drownings in the Keweah River in Sequoia National Park (3 as of yesterday) and six on the Kern River which drains to the south starting in upper Kings Canyon Park, going through the back country of Sequoia draining the slopes of Whitney as it heads due south. The flow on the Kern is described as 400 - 600% of normal for this time of year.

I spent some of last week in Kings Canyon, Sequoia and the Central Valley and the rivers coming out of the central Sierras are really running. It had spiked up to the mid 90s at the first of last week and the rivers were running as though a flooding rainstorm had just finished.