OPINION: Scripted answers raise flags regarding NOAA coverup
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The case for a criminal investigation into Dale Jones Jr., deposed director of fisheries enforcement in New England, gets more and more compelling.
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E-mails show NOAA feared fishing violence
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Richard Hirn, attorney for the NOAA union, said MacDonald did not wish to comment for this story. But Hirn said it's been disappointing NOAA management allowed the employees to be made scapegoats for policies against fishermen that were passed down from the top.
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NOAA roll-out strategy sheds new light on Dale Jones and shredding incident
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Dale Jones, who has been reassigned outside enforcement, and his superiors at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have repeatedly insisted that the document shredding was benign, a routine purging of files scheduled before the Commerce Department inspector general's investigation was announced.
Now, doubts about that claim have emerged from an unlikely source — the scripted orchestration of the NOAA plan for responding to questions about the document shredding. The text of the "Roll Out Strategy for IG Report on Shredding" was released in response to a Freedom of Information Act request.
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EDITORIAL: Jones' job drives home NOAA leader's disdain for fishermen, Congress
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It has been clear for virtually her entire tenure as
head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that
President Obama's choice for the post, Jane Lubchenco, has little to no
respect for fishermen, for members of Congress and other political
leaders at the state and local level, and for taxpayers in general.
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NOAA looking for new fisheries law enforcement chief
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The federal government is looking to hire a new chief for its fisheries law enforcement arm, after NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenco revealed that the former head of enforcement, Dale Jones, has been reassigned to monitoring international seafood trade.
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