Jones, after all, knows a lot about managing data, the Commerce Department's Inspector General found. He was the one pegged by the IG's office as leader of a document-shredding operation carried out within NOAA's enforcement offices during the 2009-2010 federal probe of abuse by Jones' jack-booted NOAA enforcement agents against fishermen out of Gloucester, other New England ports, and elsewhere.

We doubt, of course, that even NOAA administrator Jane Lubchenco would grant Jones his new job based on that documented expertise. But the fact that Jones continues to hold down any job with a six-figure salary paid by American taxpayers is not only a shameful slap to the face of America's fishermen, but to congressional lawmakers and taxpayers alike.

Read the complete editorial from The Gloucester Times.