Federal experts 'showed poor judgement' by rebuking weather officials for contradicting Trump, says watchdog

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A series of messages, emails and phone calls between 1am and 3.43am led to a high-level public rebuke of local forecasting experts following White House pressure

“By requiring NOAA to issue an unattributed statement related to a then-5-day-old tweet, while an active hurricane continued to exist off the east coast of the United States, the department displayed poor judgment in exercising its authority over NOAA,” the inspector general report said.

 

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