Editor's note: After this story was published, it was announced that NOAA Administrator Dr. Jane Lubchenco has decided to transfer the responsibilities recently assigned to Mr. Dale Jones elsewhere within NOAA.
Jan. 13, 2012 – The revival inside NOAA of the career of Dale J. Jones, sacked as law enforcement director in 2010 amid revelations of document shredding and abuse of the badge at the expense of the fishing industry, has produced widespread denunciations and provided a moment of bipartisan agreement in Massachusetts' own U.S. Senate fight.
Responding to the news that Jones had been put in charge of a sophisticated, high priority program to open NOAA data portals to stakeholders, Republican U.S. Sen. Scott Brown and his challenger, Democrat Elizabeth Warren, each issued statements to the Times on Thursday agreeing on the indefensibility of the choice of Jones to launch the Enterprise Data Management program.
They were joined in that view by U.S. Sen. John Kerry, Congressmen Barney Frank and John Tierney, Mayor Carolyn Kirk, former New Bedford Mayor Scott Lang, and state Rep. Ann-Margaret Ferrante, D-Gloucester.
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