Thread by @JasonLeopold

BREAKING #FOIA: At 10 pm EST tonight, NOAA released hundreds of pages of documents in response to my and other #FOIA requests about Hurricane Dorian and Sharpiegate.

A late night dump from NOAA! Hmm wonder what's in here.

Uploading docs now.

UPLOADED these Hurricane Dorian/SharpieGate documents--more than 1,000 pages--to Google Drive as @documentcloud is failing.

Here's a link and here's one email from the cache: drive.google.com/file/d/1wj3_UV…

@documentcloud I like this email from the cache 😅

@documentcloud Email from NOAA advising its staff not to respond to WH tweets about Hurricane Dorian. From NOAA's late night #FOIA dump.

@documentcloud WOW. These emails underscore how angry NOAA officials were about the Hurricane Dorian tweets by Trump and how NOAA handled and responded to the controversy (and sharpiegate).

"You have no idea how hard I’m fighting to keep politics out of science..."

#FOIA

@documentcloud Email between NOAA officials regarding a WaPo query about Hurricane Dorian: "How do you want to handle this one? Looks like someone at the WH drew with a marker on the image of our official forecast. Starts at the 18 sec. mark."

@documentcloud THIS email from NOAA's PAO and meteorologist Dennis Feltgen following Trump's remarks about Hurricane Dorian last September

From NOAA's late night #FOIA dump

@documentcloud And here it is:

Email from Jerry Slaff, Public Affairs Specialist NOAA Office of Communications:

Subject line: Tweet shows POTUS altering NHC map

Via NOAA's late night #FOIA dump in response to my/other requesters

@documentcloud Here's the draft statement from NOAA to Sharpiegate/Trump

@documentcloud Email from Julie Roberts, NOAA's comms director who used to work for the Trump campaign re: Hurricane Dorian/Sharpiegate

"I pray this thing dies off by morning or we just continue to say 'call the WH.'"

#FOIA

@documentcloud Amazing.

Email From NOAA chief Neil Jacobs to Julie Roberts, NOAA comms director, et al, regarding Trump's tweets on Hurricane Dorian and Alabama.

#FOIA

@documentcloud Email: "This statement is deeply upsetting to NOAA employees that have worked the hurricane and not fully accurate based on the timeline in question. Please raise this in feedback through proper channels."

#FOIA

@documentcloud WHOA!

Hell of an email from NOAA official Craig McLean to NOAA's chief and other top officials:

"What concerns me most is that this Administration is eroding the public trust in NOAA for an apparent
political recovery from an ill timed and imprecise comment from the President"

WOW!! BIG FIND in the NOAA #FOIA document dump tonight by @chrisgeidner re: Hurricane Dorian and the map Trump showed during the WH briefing

"Yes that was doctored"

@chrisgeidner LOL. From the NOAA emails re: Hurricane Dorian/Trump/Sharpiegate: "I recommend that we no longer use hootsuite anymore."

#FOIA

@chrisgeidner Here's Julie Roberts, NOAA's chief of staff and comms director, emailing Ken Graham, Director of the NOAA National, the widely condemned unsigned statement backing Trump on Hurricane Dorian threatening Alabama

#FOIA

@chrisgeidner These NOAA emails

The weeklong controversy over Trump's comments abt Hurricane Dorian & Alabama & Sharpiegate took a toll

"People across agency are hurting...not just those
directly involved. Some employees have lost their minds I
fear. Trying to maintain calm and focus"

#FOIA

@chrisgeidner In the aftermath of Trump's tweets abt Hurricane Dorian/Alabama and Sharpiegate, John Murphy, the COO of NWS, sent this email

"...Forecasters do fear retribution for issuing products. Plan to look them in eye and tell them they have nothing to fear and we will defend actions."

@chrisgeidner NOAA/NWS email thread CONTINUED: "My biggest fear is someone will hesitate to issue product for fear of retribution....not good"

#FOIA

@chrisgeidner ANOTHER BIG find in NOAA Dorian emails by @chrisgeidner on P. 563

NOAA's Makeda Okolo: Apparently the President is convinced that Alabama was in the path of Dorian and someone altered a NOAA map (with a sharpie) to convince folks

NOAA's Deputy U/S for Operations: Yep, crazy

@chrisgeidner After Trump tweeted this about Hurricane Dorian and Alabama, NOAA spox sent this email to Julie Roberts, NOAA's comms director and deputy chief of staff.

#FOIA

@chrisgeidner FINALLY, some much needed confirmation that the unsigned and widely condemned NOAA statement last September backing Trump on Hurricane Dorian was worked on by Trump appointee Julie Roberts and then acting administrator Neil Jacobs

#FOIA

@chrisgeidner THIS is yet ANOTHER email from NOAA confirming that a sharpie was used on a weather map at Trump's briefing last September showing Hurricane Dorian was going to hit Alabama.

"Guessing this is the area of uncertainty that his sharpie staffer was drawing"

#FOIA

@chrisgeidner Email sent to NOAA acting administrator Neil Jacobs, et al, by Louis Uccellini, Director NOAA/NWS, related to Trump/Hurricane Dorian comments: "...The mood out there is pretty ugly. Will make the [Northwest Atlantic] more of a challenge than anyone could imagine"

#FOIA

@chrisgeidner WOW. This reply by Tim Gallaudet,
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere, to Craig McLean, NOAA's chief scientist, who wrote in an email that the Trump admin is "eroding the public trust in NOAA."

#FOIA

@chrisgeidner In an email, NOAA's chief scientist Craig McLean reacts to the unsigned statement NOAA issued last September backing Trump on Hurricane Dorian and Alabama.

"What’s next? Climate science is a hoax?
Flabbergasted to leave our forecasters hanging in the political wind.
Embarrassed"

@chrisgeidner My last tweet from the NOAA email cache, released last night in response to my and other #FOIA requests.

Highlighting this email again because it is just so DAMNING and a reminder that this admin will even doctor a weather map if need be

Story: buzzfeed.com/zahrahirji/sha…