I am not a scientist in this field only a citizen who despises bureaucracy and its petty, pilfering, politicized mini-minds! Like the ones who let our great dam and aqueduct system fall apart like this. Mankind has created works of sheer genius and as the creative ones pass on, the nihilists who hate Mankind and our beautiful orderly well thought out system of reservoirs are now, today, at Oroville, working to stymie the excellent professionals. If I sound enraged, I offer no apology. Even though I was raised in America's Marxist loving public schools, I spent my twenties studying the other side of the story—the truth. See my tagline.
Note: Discussion information
I still am amazed at this Forensic Team's announcement for a form of a hotline for "tips" or "information". If you think about it, any information that is of actionable substance requires a substantiation (records, dates, names, companies, events, etc) to be of any impact in the Forensic Team's report. This means that the level of evidential proof has to meet a high standard, to a Civil Liability Court Level standard, as the consequences of significant information will likely end up in the courts (i.e. Lawsuits on funding liabilities of Water Customers of DWR - besides the FEMA funding forfeiture risk).
It's possible that this action by the Forensic Team was enacted to allow current DWR employees to confidentially contact with information. What a scary dilemma. You could lose your job and career if there is any "unmasking" and if there is an organizational contingent that could form a degree of "retribution" (just discussion info here...).
The fact that the Forensic Team set up a "Legal" form of an attempted firewall (see clip below), indicates that they desire real "evidence", not just "tips".
Because of the DHS designation of CEII, this factor could be the reason for designation "a) a legal requirement arises to do so". Why? If someone deems the evidence, records, information, etc provided is CEII level access, then a person faces a Catch-22. They could be "unmasked" from someone saying that this information was protected and they violated DHS directives in providing it through a public contact channel.
Thus ANY information that would be of "high evidential value" may be counter attacked or the person "unmasked" for having such knowledge/information & sharing it.
How is anyone (including retired DWR and/or past contractors) going to get over the "trust" factor on this?
= = Legal Protections (both ways) in announcement:
All information received will be treated with confidentiality, and sources of the information will not be shared with DWR or any other parties outside the six members of the forensic team unless either (a) a legal requirement arises to do so, or (b) the individuals providing information give permission to share their identity.
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