The Newburyport Daily News has called for "a major housecleaning at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration."
The paper observes that "for years, there have been complaints" thatNOAA has "become heavy-handed, unreasonable and vindictive" and now"the news coming from sworn affidavits in U.S. District Court last weekconfirms that these complaints are not just allegations…"
The paper’s editorial says "it is clear that NOAA is populated byagents with an agenda that goes well beyond … the even-handedenforcement of the law. Not only has the agency sought to imposepunishment before its allegations are adjudicated, it sought tomanipulate public opinion about the industry by manipulating themedia…. A federal judge went so far as to call it tantamount to’Gestapo justice’."
Read "Fishery agency’s ‘Gestapo justice’ needs to end" at the Newburyport Daily News.