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MarkMathews » 07 Sep 2019 9:10 am » wrote:The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said that "information provided by NOAA and the National Hurricane Center to President Trump and the wider public demonstrated that tropical-storm force winds from Hurricane Dorian could impact Alabama."

Why is that statement unsigned MM?
Who wrote it?

It says 'Statement attributable to a NOAA spokesperson.'
WTF does that mean?

I smell ****.

Released six days after Trump’s first tweet on the matter, the NOAA statement was unsigned, neither from the acting head of the agency nor any particular spokesman.

It also came a day after the president’s homeland security and counterterrorism adviser (Rear Adm. Peter Brown) released a statement justifying Trump’s claims of the Alabama threat.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/ ... icted-him/

So he got two people to fall on the sword for him, one of which refused to even attach their name to it.

Dan Sobien, president of the NWS Employees Union, stated in a tweet Friday evening that “The hard-working employees of the NWS had nothing to do with the utterly disgusting and disingenuous tweet sent out by NOAA management tonight.”



And a meteorologist in Alabama Tweeted this: