The Washington Post had a great story which reported that:
Neil Jacobs, the acting head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, sent an all-staff email Friday afternoon in an apparent effort to repair damage from an unusual Sept. 6 statement that sided with President Trump rather than agency weather forecasters.
I have obtained a copy of the email and have posted it here. It states that:
Scientific integrity is at the heart of NOAA’s mission and culture, and is essential for maintaining the public’s trust.
Of course, for the government to function properly, all of its component parts must act with integrity. Thus, the NOAA story is but a subpart of the much larger story of a broad-based attempt by the Trump Administration to undermine the integrity of the federal bureaucracy by the Trump Administration.
Going forward, I will attempt to focus on similar examples of this corruption. One question that I would pose to those contributors to the RBC who are from the UK: Is the bureaucracy there under a similar attack? If it either is or were presented with similar pressures, is it institutionally more resistant?
Looks like Jacobs is learning survival for good government in the age of Trump. Make sure the truth is out there for people who are interested in it, but give Trump his PR wishes when necessary.