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Mon Sep 9, 2019, 08:50 PM Sep 2019

Commerce Chief Threatened Firings at NOAA

Commerce Chief Threatened Firings at NOAA

September 9, 2019 at 3:51 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 163 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2019/09/09/commerce-chief-threatened-firings-at-noaa/

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“The Secretary of Commerce threatened to fire top employees at NOAA on Friday after the agency’s Birmingham office contradicted President Trump’s claim that Hurricane Dorian might hit Alabama,” the New York Times reports.

“That threat led to an unusual, unsigned statement later that Friday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration disavowing the office’s own position that Alabama was not at risk. The reversal caused widespread anger within the agency and drew criticism from the scientific community that NOAA, a division of the Commerce Department, had been bent to political purposes.”

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