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Atlantis, four to five times the output of the deepwater, any failure there could be four to five times the problem with the deepwater. >> when did you first bring the problems to bp and what did they say, how did they respond? >> anderson, what really bothers me is that i have seen, you know, i tried for a year and a half to get the problem fixed. i knew from my experience as a project controls engineer that this was a deadly recipe for problems and for catastrophic errors, and it just didn't happen. the management tone there was, you know, let's take the shortcut. let's do the engineering as...

The gulf. you have injury to the fisheries. you have all kinds of things happening there. a catastrophe and the administration simply says, look, we needed to have a six-month time-out here to do that so tough for these folks to go into court and force the hand, get rid of the moratorium by saying the government did something wrong. >> yeah. and this is something the president wants so do you see this moratorium getting overturned? >> reporter: you know, this is sort of more of a political issue right now in a lot of ways and there are people on capitol hill who were talking about ways to do, ...

Sits bp's monster of an oil rig. it's atlantis. when you ask for the engineering documents, the blueprints, the schematics that show you how to put this thing together, you'll get a surprise. 90%, that's right, 90% of the safety documentation was missing as of the end of 2008. that's according to the advocacy group food and water watch who got the information from a bp supervisor turned whistle-blower. the group says it's an accident waiting to happen and in court seeking an injunction claiming it needs to be shut down now because in an emergency no one would know how to. >> in a production fa...

Internal structure but bp worried that turning the documents over to people who have requested them could lead to one official called catastrophic operator errors assuming they were correct. and why doesn't the interior department step in and shut down atlantis while bp gets the paper work in order? press secretary for the department said they could not comment because the matter is under litigation but in a court filing interior secretary ken salazar said the nflgs of claims about atlantis should be done by mid-september. joe johns, cnn, washington. kenneth avenue is the whistle-blower you ...

The inspectors together, spend them out to each deepwater rig individually. check it out thoroughly and then you decide whether this rig should go ahead and start drilling. >> right. a lot of folks want to do one rig at a time instead of a blanket moratorium. so all right. we have to leave it there. both of you, thank you both for your time tonight. now let's go back to anderson. thanks. just ahead, louisiana, maddening example of bureaucracy getting in the way say state workers. vacuums were working just fine. why did the coast guard shut them down. also ahead, saving the bird. how foez f...