NOAA staff warned in Sept. 1 directive against contradicting Trump

[Miles Archer]

NOAA staff warned in Sept. 1 directive against contradicting Trump



https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/noaa-staff-warned-in-sept-1-directive-against-contradicting-trump/2019/09/07/12a52d1a-d18f-11e9-87fa-8501a456c003_story.html

By Andrew Freedman, Colby Itkowitz and Jason Samenow September 7 at 8:16 PM

Nearly a week before the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration publicly backed President Trump over its own scientists, a top NOAA official warned its staff against contradicting the president.

In an agencywide directive sent Sept. 1 to National Weather Service personnel, hours after Trump asserted, with no evidence, that Alabama “would most likely be hit (much) harder than anticipated,” staff was told to “only stick with official National Hurricane Center forecasts if questions arise from some national level social media posts which hit the news this afternoon.”

They were also told not to “provide any opinion,” according to a copy of the email obtained by The Washington Post.

A NOAA meteorologist who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution said the note, understood internally to be referring to Trump, came after the National Weather Service office in Birmingham contradicted Trump by tweeting Alabama would “NOT see any impacts from the hurricane.”

[tblue37]

1. K&R for visibility. nt

[Skittles]

2. I can honestly say my thumb is longer than Trump's

FACT

[DesertRat]

16. Lol I had the same thought

[lastlib]

3. Another Kick

These people are f*cking monsters! Starting next November, there must be MASSIVE purges of tRumpers from our government!

[FakeNoose]

20. +1000 If only we could start sooner

... like ... NOW!

[struggle4progress]

4. I've been following the weather my whole life. I cannot remember any time when anybody thought

that a politician's opinions about the weather deserved such deference from the scientists who actually study the subject professionally and attempt to make predictions

[pangaia]

12. You are one of the smartest ones here.

This is how dictatorships are born and then function.
Gain control of every government agency, the courts, media, communications....

republicans have their own fascists installed EVERYWHERE.

It's been going on since the late 1970s at least - started small.. road commissioners, town councils, mayors, zoning boards, school boards,county executives, courts, police.. you name it.
Now they've hit the big time.. patient fuckers they are..

[FakeNoose]

22. You can't remember because it has never happened before

Such is the shitshow nightmare we're stuck in the middle of, right now.

[Dawson Leery]

5. When we take power, whoever went along with this needs to be fired, before the parade down PA Avenue

[Thomas Hurt]

6. why not name the skeevey apparatchik who sent out the email and who authorized?

[yardwork]

7. This is absolutely outrageous.

[Susan Calvin]

8. The way I read it,

it sounds like a message to stick to the facts. But in the current environment, I can understand how it could be interpreted as don't contradict Trump

[Marcuse]

13. Do not react to "national level social media posts".

[Miles Archer]

18. Yep..."national level" pretty much dotted the I's and crossed the T's on that one.

There would probably have been excessive blowback if they committed "don't contradict Trump" to writing.

But as it stands, "mission accomplished."

[SCVDem]

9. Fake Weather?

I don't even want to go there.

There are laws about causing a panic situation. Yelling Fire in a theater, faking a major meteorological event, stuff like that.

[triron]

10. Yeah the fucker is certainly guilty of a seious felony here.

[liberal N proud]

11. A critical public safety organization compromised by a 4 year old

[TeamPooka]

14. Dear leader is always correct.

[NCLefty]

15. And now to the Alt-Weather report from Republican Scientist Donald Trump...

Reality is broken.

[NotHardly]

17. This is just stupid ... the President of the US lies consistently about everything...

he cannot be trusted. Did you ever think in your life time that we would be forced to say this with a thousand of certified lies about any one in this position of power? Did you ever think that this would be the place you would find yourself living/

[Miguelito Loveless]

19. So, the truth is now "an opinion"

Got it.

[yaesu]

21. its is way overdue for the house dems to raise all kinds of hell, including impeachment

I mean stop working with the fascists on anything including government funding, shut everything down no matter how much damage it does because if the monster is not stopped there will be nothing left to fix.

[Miles Archer]

23. MSNBC keeps stating that we're in an impeachment inquiry

On Friday, one of the hosts (don't recall which one) spoke to a guest about this while Trump's impeachable offenses were shown in a "crawl" on the screen. I read the list and my mind went numb. ANY ONE of the items on the list...never mind the ENTIRE list...would have had Republicans HOWLING for an Obama impeachment, had he committed the same acts. Relentless, non-stop, showboating HOWLING.

[real Cannabis calm]

24. recommended to publicize